Hi, I have a question for those familiar with using random streams.
I have two random streams and I am using them in very similar ways. One case works, the other does not. First I’ll show the one that does work:
When setting up a new game, I check if a save game exist. If not, I seed a random stream and store the seed as an integer variable here:
That integer variable gets saved so that I can load the same seed later on.
How it gets used is here:
There is an array of possible choices, and the seed is used to select from them. This all functions as expected, meaning that the random set of “control points” I produce with the “Exercise Stream Seed” gets saved and loaded and is the same every time I load the same save slot.
Now to the part that does not work. I use another Random Stream to randomly select from an array in another place, but if I try to use an integer variable I get an infinite loop error. Here:
With the “Identifier Stream” struct plugged in, no infinite loop. But I can’t use it that way because if I load the game multiple times, it increments the value we are accessing in the stream. So I need to plug in the integer variable like I’ve done earlier, but then I get the infinite loop error.
I am sure there is something about Random Streams that I am not understanding here. Hopefully I’ve explained this clear. Any help even if it’s just a suggestion for a troubleshooting step would be appreciated. I’m pretty stumped here, I don’t know what I can do to learn anything more.
