How do I randomly spawn a text out of a predefined text-pool?

Hi everybody!

I would like to spawn a random text out of a text-pool, how can I implement that?

Thank you in advance!

You can set an array, then randomly choose an index in the array.

Array.Push value "Text1",

Array.Push value "Text2",

…

Then,

Text.Set( Array.At( floor(random( Array.Width ))))

If it's a small set you could use choose.

choose("This text","That text","The other text")

If your following the beta channel you can use the AdvancedRandom.Weighted expression that was added in r149.

It works by creating a table of values with different probabilities, which you can then randomly select from.

For simple use you can do something like the following:

AllanR we don't have an option to remove an entry at the moment, but it would be fairly simple to add.

Another tool which AdvancedRandom adds which could be useful here is the permutation table. It creates a list of unique numbers in a random order. If you create a permutation table the size of your word array you can just increment through the permutation table and use the value to select a word that hasn't been used before ( effectively it's a round about way to "shuffle" your word array ).

Thank you very much for all your answers!

I now created an Array via the array editor as json file.

I managed to load the data via Ajax into a text object.

But now I don't know how I can access the data from the array at a specific xy position.

Can anybody help?

construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/array

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in the AJAX On Complete event (event 7) you are setting a text object to AJAX.LastData

you should be loading LastData into the array (Array Load AJAX.LastData)

then you can access the array like this:

TextObject Set Text Array.At(random)

(Where random is a random number between 0 and the last entry)

AllanR I tried th load the data into an array, as you can see in the two screenshots, but unfortunately it returns a 0 in my Textboject (r1r2) when I run it.

Thanks in advance!

— the array wont be loaded yet when event 8 executes (at start of layout)

it will take a while before the AJAX on complete executes, after that the array will be loaded and available to other events...

if you assign the text object in the AJAX on complete event (after loading the array), I would expect that to work.

You can use a signal to wait while AJAX load the file :

in Start layout, Wait for signal "AJAX done", and when AJAX is completed, Send signal "AJAX done"

Lazzy version : Wait 1 second, it should work.