Display variable's value during a game

[HCloridric]

Hello everyone

I'm posting this message to ask a question

I'd like to test the random manipulation on the warcraft 3 legion TD map.

I saw that the creation of turrets with the random race goes through the function MathRandom

I was wondering if there was any documentation about this?

I was also wondering if, in order to test certain manipulations, it was possible to display the values of variables during a game (like on a programming debugger). The idea is that when a value is assigned to a variable, it should be visible in a console or in chat, so that you can see in real time how the game is behaving.

I've also noticed that when I randomly build a turret, if I go back, it's always the same turret that's built.
I deduce that we're in a pseudo-randomization situation, and that the values are probably generated from a seed generated at the start of the game.

Is it possible to find this seed once the game has started?

Is this possible? Are there any resources along these lines?

Thanks for your answers

 

[Uncle]

Random Number Generator 1.2

/* This is a linear congruential generator in vJass. You can have different setups and seeds in tandem. This wiki article contains a good list of numbers to plug in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#cite_note-Steele20-2 These kind of generators can...

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[Lua] - Debug Utils (Ingame Console etc.)

Debug Utils 2.0a ⚠️ This resource has been moved to a new page in the Spells and Systems forum. The old page will not be further maintained. A debug library for Lua mapmaking that will save you tons of time. Feature Overview: Automatic ingame error messages. Ingame Console (execute code...

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Aside from those, there's also the Display Text action which lets you convert Integers/Reals to Strings. With that you could easily display the value of any variable.

 

[Chaosium]

Also make sure to have "Use Fixed Random Seed" turned off in File > Preferences, I believe it's on by default and does pretty much what it says when you use triggers with random numbers involved

 

[HCloridric]

Ok thanks for your answers

Seems I have some other think to understand, then I'll try this