Randomising the timing to start an animation

[Photosbykev]

Hi,

I've got a short simple animation around 10 seconds that I would like trigger after a random time interval every 5-10 minutes or even longer. Is it possible with code in the xml to do something like this or isn't it possible at the moment?

regards
Kev

 

[tgibson]

Hi,

I use the seconds in the time variables for my random trigger. When you start your process (the trigger), get the seconds value and use it as the seed for your random number. You can use math to change the total length of the random period (i.e. if you want it within 15 seconds of the trigger then it is seconds * 4).

 

[Photosbykev]

Hi,

I use the seconds in the time variables for my random trigger. When you start your process (the trigger), get the seconds value and use it as the seed for your random number. You can use math to change the total length of the random period (i.e. if you want it within 15 seconds of the trigger then it is seconds * 4).

Thank you for replying, could you post a xml file showing the syntax please?

Kev

 

[tgibson]

Here is some code that sets a random time for an engine to fail, if a user should abuse the engine. It is placed in the (L:ENG1_HEALTH, number) variable, which is in seconds. It sets the minimum length of time to (L:ENG_INIT_HEALTH, number), and allows it to be extended by up to 2 minutes randomly. flr returns the next lowest integer, and % is the modulo operator, which returns the remainder of a division operation. It only runs once due to the (L:ENG1_HEALTH_INIT, bool) variable being set to 1 at the end of the code.

         (L:ENG1_HEALTH_INIT, bool) ! (A:GENERAL ENG1 COMBUSTION, bool) && if{     
           (P:Local time,seconds) flr 60 % (>L:ENG1_HEALTH, number)
           (L:ENG1_HEALTH, number) 2 * (L:ENG_INIT_HEALTH, number) + (>L:ENG1_HEALTH, number)
           1 (>L:ENG1_HEALTH_INIT, bool) }