[F8] Random Plasement

[tbm2020]

Hey

Can anyone help ... im trying to get movie clips to load in random postions within another movie clip , im using it together with some coding thatll load photos randomly from a selection of photos.

the overall effect is that images are selected by random then place on the stage at random x and y positions

Anyone gt any ideas on the random placement

Cheers in advance for help

[walsher]

Howdy, for random placement, you'd want to use Math.random

MC._x = Math.floor(Math.random()* 500);
MC._y = Math.floor(Math.random()*300);

This will put a movieclip anywhere on the x axis between 0 and 500 and the y axis between 0 and 300

[tbm2020]

cheers thnaks for that so simple . similar to the random number generator

thanks again

[walsher]

Yep, thats all random really is.

[tbm2020]

Just wondering ive come across a slight glitch how do i limit the randomness for example lets say i only want x to be random between 100 and 300 therefore no postions like x=90 or x=310 .

Thanks again for any help

[walsher]

Howdy, you'd need to add a few numbers to formula that we already have.

MC._x = Math.round(Math.random()*(300-99))+99

this way the numbers will be from 100 to 300 randomly