Making Dialog: How do I load random girls without repeating until I've used them all? (1 Viewer)

[ZRI]

I want to make a dialog where HIM is being visited by a group of lovely ladies. I've got a list of maybe 10 HER-only partial charcodes, to be loaded randomly when I press a button. I'd like to make sure they're not repeated until I've used them all.
How do I do this?

 

[edgelord 3000]

I wrote a post about this earlier: Pim_gd's Advanced Dialogue Guide (v1.01 - updated 10 December 2013)

 

[ZRI]

Oh that's beautiful, I'm gonna try that out in a while. Thanks.

 

[edgelord 3000]

Come to think of it, my solution is slightly wrong. In it, if line D has been played, it will play the general line regardless if the other lines have been played. So line D would have to check if A has been played to make it will loop around until it finds a line that hasn't been played. But at that point, when all lines have been played, it will loop forever and possibly crash the game. So it needs to check that beforehand, I reckon.

pulled_up:"[pulled_up*( varAplayed == 1 ) && ( varBplayed == 1 ) && ( varCplayed == 1 ) && ( varDplayed == 1 )*_INSTANT]"
pulled_up0_INSTANT:"[pulled_up_A*varAplayed*]"
pulled_up0_INSTANT:"[pulled_up_B*varBplayed*]"
pulled_up0_INSTANT:"[pulled_up_C*varCplayed*]"
pulled_up0_INSTANT:"[pulled_up_D*varDplayed*]"
pulled_up_A0_INSTANT:"Line A"{"set":{"varAplayed":1}}
pulled_up_A1_INSTANT:"[pulled_up_B*varBplayed*_INSTANT]"
pulled_up_B0_INSTANT:"Line B"{"set":{"varBplayed":1}}
pulled_up_B1_INSTANT:"[pulled_up_C*varCplayed*_INSTANT]"
pulled_up_C0_INSTANT:"Line C"{"set":{"varCplayed":1}}
pulled_up_C1_INSTANT:"[pulled_up_D*varDplayed*_INSTANT]"
pulled_up_D0_INSTANT:"Line D"{"set":{"varDplayed":1}}
pulled_up_D1_INSTANT:"[pulled_up_A*varAplayed*_INSTANT]"
pulled_up1_INSTANT:"[general]"

So messy. But it should work. Also, I added the _INSTANT tag to speed things up, executing this many lines would probably have taken a while if not.

edit: there's also this thread on the subject, which you can try if you get it. I know I don't.

 

[Rudgar]

[....]
edit: there's also this thread on the subject, which you can try if you get it. I know I don't.

If you want me to explain it once more in simpler words or in more details, I'd likely will do

Respectfully, Rudgar

 

[edgelord 3000]

If you want me to explain it once more in simpler words or in more details, I'd likely will do

I'd love to hear it, it sounds like the kind of stuff that's useful to know.

 

[Rudgar]

I'd love to hear it, it sounds like the kind of stuff that's useful to know.

Then just tell me which part in particular is not clear for you and I'll extend my original post

Respectfully, Rudgar

 

[edgelord 3000]

Pim_gd's explanation was what I was struggling with. But I think I actually got it now after some rereads.
Basically, you have x number of variables, each set to a name (or charcode, or whatever), called variable_1 to variable_x. You then get a random number between 1 and x using da.random, resulting in y. You call variable_y which does whatever you need it to do, then switch the values of variable_y with variable_x, before you subtract 1 from x, leaving the previous variable_y (now variable_x+1) out of the pool. Repeat until done.

Did I get it right? I guess you could also copy y to a completely different set of variables if you want to so you could call upon variables you know has been used. "Hey, NAME_Y is back for more!", sort of.

 

[Rudgar]

Pim_gd's explanation was what I was struggling with. But I think I actually got it now after some rereads.
Basically, you have x number of variables, each set to a name (or charcode, or whatever), called variable_1 to variable_x. You then get a random number between 1 and x using da.random, resulting in y. You call variable_y which does whatever you need it to do, then switch the values of variable_y with variable_x, before you subtract 1 from x, leaving the previous variable_y (now variable_x+1) out of the pool. Repeat until done.


Did I get it right?

Perfectly right, perfectly explained!
.... almost There's only one single little bit left for me to nitpick:

[...] leaving the previous variable_y (now variable_x+1)

The previous variable_y will become "now" variable_x (without "+1"!) because former variable_x took the place of former variable_y - they both just change places, more or less. So no "+1" needed anywhere

Again: beside this, you completely got it and explained it perfectly - I myself couldn't have explained it better.

Respectfully, Rudgar

 

[edgelord 3000]

Nice. I tried making a dialogue to help out OP (and myself, if I want to use it later), but it doesn't seem to work. Logically, every name should be used an equal amount of times (give or take one), right? But in this dialogue, it doesn't, and I don't see why not. Any ideas?

 

[ZRI]

I completely forgot about this thread :/
I'm an idiot, basically asked you folks for a shuffled linked list in SDT. I'm going to start thinking about this again, and see if I can come up with anything.

Here is my most recent attempt, if anyone is still interested.