Random thing are same every time, WTF?

[AlexM]

In my gui trigger at start of the map items and units should be generated in the random point of the region, but for some weird reason they dont! Heck, every time they spawn at the same place over and over! What is the problem?

 

[jareph]

i think World editor is like that....
Random is right there, but if you using world editor to test map,
random should same every time.
if not wrong
u each time u restart will get random.

 

[Huurka]

Post trigger.

 

[Kwah]

No, the first post is right.

When you test the map from the world editor any randomly generated variable or effect will be the exact same.

Play the game from actual warcraft if you want to test random effects.

 

[AlexM]

Ok, i just found out that it was because cinematic mode was turned on... still dunno what THAT caused random things to be same all the time...

 

[Kwah]

No. It was because that you were testing. You were testing, right?

 

[ady_illidan]

hawk900 and jareph are right.
save your map, exit WE, enter in wc3 and test it. dont use test map.

 

[jorex]

Agree, hawk900 and jareph are right.

 

[AlexM]

No. It was because that you were testing. You were testing, right?

No, i wasnt testing and i also saved each time. The problem was really the cinematic mode as the error ceased to appear after i turned the cinematic off in the trigger.

 

[Emm-A-]

Sorry but all you guys ARE NOT right.
Actually u can test random numbers by clicking on "Test Map".

U have to do this: ( sry im using the german version, but i try to translate^^, so maybe its not exactly the same words)
1.Go to the main editor window.
2.Go to "file"
3.Select "Presets"
4.Now search for "Test Map"
5.Now you should see something like "Preset Random Value". Untag this, and your editor will be able to use Random Functions while Testing the Map

I hope you can find it, as my english sometimes is not the best

Greets
Emm-A-

 

[spiwn]

That is true, but not the thing that happened here.
When using cinematic mode, if you turn it on with the GUI action(BJ function) the random seed is fixed.

// Use a fixed random seed, so that cinematics play consistently.
        call SetRandomSeed(0)

Avoidable if you use jass.