Spawning from a random offset with restrictions

[Resistance21]

Hey,

I am trying to Spawn enemies around my player which are spawning out of view of the camera, This is a top down shooter game.

The way I am trying to do this is using the player as the spawn object and then using a random (X,Z) off set from the player. I have it working fine generating a random X and Z, the problem comes when I want to put a restriction in the generating of the number to be randomized all around my player.

I need to put a restriction like this:
 -50, -25, 25,50 for X and to not generate any number between -25 to 25.

I have tried looking through the actions list but can’t seems to find something that will work.

Thanks for any help given.

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 One way to go is the following:

 create a random between 25 and 50. and then randomize the sign, so you get either a minus or minus range of 25 to 50.

 does that make sense?

bye,

 Jean

[Resistance21]

Yeah that makes sense.

How would I go about randomizing a negative and positive value?

I cant think of an action that would do this.

Thanks.

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

Use for example "send random event" action and on one state you multiply your result by -1

or use random bool and if true, you multiply by -1

bye,

Jean

[Resistance21]

Okay makes sense, I'll try set something up based on that.

Thanks again.