random factor

[Slayton]

basicly im making a whack a mole game..anyway I can make it so the moles randomly pop up instead of in a fixed path?

[senocular]

depends on how you have it set up.

... how do you have it set up?

[Dr Warm]

Yeah i was trying to figure out how to do this myself awhile ago, try mucking around with the switch function:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
n = random(5)+1;
switch(n) {
case 1:
_root.gotoAndPlay("mole1");//make a mole pop up
break;
case 2:
_root.gotoAndPlay("mole2");
break;
case 3:
_root.gotoAndPlay("mole3");
break;
case 4:
_root.gotoAndPlay("mole4");
break;
case 5:
_root.gotoAndPlay("mole5");
break;
}
}
obviously you can change it to make more/less moles come up.

[senocular]

the above can be simplfied to

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
_root.gotoAndPlay("mole"+(random(5)+1));
}

[Dr Warm]

Yeah, thats alot better, my ways a bit outdated i think