Changing random time

[Scott McGee]

Possibly no solution, but i’m going to chuck it out there.

I want to randomly scale my text, but I don’t want it to just be every 1 second, 2 seconds etc. The below works fine if I want it to change every second.

seed = Math.floor(time/1);

seedRandom(seed,true);

s = random(100,150);
[s,s]

Is there a way to randomly change this bit?

seed = Math.floor(time/random).

So that when it’s reach 1 lets say, it changes to 0.5, then when it reaches 0.5 it changes to 0.75 (these numbers would be random between set integers obviously)

[Scott McGee]

Unless there’s a tidier way, I think I found something that I’ve altered that appears to work.

minDur = .5;

maxDur = 1;

t = tPrev = inPoint;

seedRandom(index,true);

while (t <= time){

tPrev = t;

t += random(minDur,maxDur);

}

s = random(100,300);

[s,s]

[Dan Ebberts]

That’s pretty much how I’d do it unless you want to ramp from one value to the next, in which case I’d do something like this:

minVal = 100;
maxVal = 300;
minDur = .5;
maxDur = 1;
tEase = .1;
t = tPrev = inPoint;
seedRandom(index,true);
while (t <= time){
tPrev = t;
  t += random(minDur,maxDur);
}
seedRandom(tPrev,true);
s1 = random(minVal,maxVal);
seedRandom(t,true);
s2 = random(minVal,maxVal);
s = ease(time,tPrev,tPrev+tEase,s1,s2);
[s,s]