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  • problems with random seed?

    Posted by Kevin Camp on November 15, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    is there a problem with either ae cs3 or intel-macs and the seedRandom function?

    ae gives me an error, saying that seedRandom is undefined. even with this simple expression copied and pasted from motionscript.com:

    holdTime = .5;
    seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime);
    seedRandom(seed,true);
    random([thisComp.width, thisComp.height])

    i’ve tried pulling the seedRandom from the expression menu, it’s listed there but it still gives the same error…?

    Kevin Camp
    Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

    Nate Whitson replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Kevin Camp

    November 15, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    i just tried it on ae7 and got the same error. is there a problem with java and intel-macs? why would the seedRandom function not be recognized?

    Kevin Camp
    Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Kevin Camp

    November 15, 2007 at 9:46 pm

    well… i shutdown the system and went to lunch, and now all is fine…

    Kevin Camp
    Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Nate Whitson

    February 5, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    I’m not sure if anyone has a good answer for this issue, but I recently had the same problem, which was fixed by a Java update. This should probably be the first place to look if this happens to anyone else. Hope this is helpful to someone!

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