My answers are theoretical. I haven't tested either or have never used tried them. I'm making some assumptions based on online documentation.
I believe one or both could work though. I'm sure Anne will correct me if I'm wrong.
Firstly, that
["crclrcg1l.webm" , "crclrcg2l.webm"] is a
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. Just an array of strings.
So I believe, you could store that list in a variable.
Python:
$ my_movie_list = ["crclrcg1l.webm" , "crclrcg2l.webm"]
play movie my_movie_list loop
Next, according to the documentation I linked to for the list, there are various things you can do to a list. In this case, I'm thinking
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.
However, you want random not sorted. But the sort allows for you to define a custom key for sorting your list, using a function.
The example looks like this
(it sorts the list based on the length of the values):
Python:
# A function that returns the length of the value:
def myFunc(e):
return len(e)
cars = ['Ford', 'Mitsubishi', 'BMW', 'VW']
cars.sort(key=myFunc)
So now, I'm thinking that if the
key= function returned a
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- the list would be sorted into a random order. You might be able to do away with the function completely, since the generation of a random number is probably a function anyway. So maybe this would work?...
Python:
$ my_movie_list = ["crclrcg1l.webm" , "crclrcg2l.webm"]
play movie my_movie_list.sort(key=renpy.random.randint(0,99)) loop
But... you also mention that your player is able to press a button to change angles. That implies you don't want the full list of movies to play in
(random) sequence and instead want a single movie to play on a loop until the player presses the button and then for the game to swap to another random movie.
For that, I'm wondering if you perhaps want
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instead.
Random choice picks a single random value from a list.
I'm thinking something like...
Python:
# play 1 random movie from the list
play movie renpy.random.choice(["crclrcg1l.webm" , "crclrcg2l.webm"]) loop
Which doesn't stop it randomly picking the same movie again.
Finally, there is also something called
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.
note the extra "s". This returns a new list of random values based on an existing list. The new list can be longer than the original list (i.e. you can get 20 random output values based on 3 input values) - and for that reason, I wonder if it would generate duplicates even when trying to randomize a fixed number of values. (guessing... something like [1,2,3] -> [3,3,2] could be possible, I don't know.)
You might want to try it. I think it would look like this...
Python:
# play all movies from the list in random order (I hope).
play movie renpy.random.choices(["crclrcg1l.webm" , "crclrcg2l.webm"]) loop
You could make the whole system cleverer by
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or
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values to the list of available movies to be played, and maybe avoid the same movie being picked twice in a row.
Erm... maybe...
Python:
label play_movies:
$ movie_playlist = []
label repeat_play_movies:
if movie_playlist == []:
$ movie_playlist = ["crclrcg1l.webm" , "crclrcg2l.webm"]
$ picked_movie = renpy.random.choice(movie_playlist)
$ movie_playlist.remove(picked_movie)
play movie picked_movie loop
# I'm imagining a button that jumps back to "repeat_play_movies" to pick another random movie from the remaining playlist
# once the play list is empty, it is reset back to the full list.
As I say, this is all theoretical. I went looking at the documentation for python lists a while ago for something else. While reading stuff, I saw some of the functions. Hopefully, they work how I think they do.
Edit: Just saw Anne's answer... I probably need to add renpy. in front of anything I've written using random.. I think RenPy has a way of picking random numbers ahead of time to avoid players save-scumming their way through random events or rolling back and rolling forward to get a different random answer.
