Produce Random grid of blocks

Hi all

I am experimenting with Construct to teach some kids in my school about game making.I have followed a few of the threads on here to get to where I am now.

I want the game to generate a 10 by 10 grid of 60px square boxes. The boxes are randomly picked from a choice of 3.

I have coded this using nested loops. The top loop however doesnt stop at 10 rows like it is set, it just keeps going. If someone could tell me what I have done wrong I would appreciate it.

Project link: docs.google.com/file/d/0Bzt0PtP2tXTYNVNGZXU4S3R5YkE/edit

Many thanks

Adam

I havent looked at your file, but you can just put the different blocks into a family to pick randomly.

Then the event (fake code)

conditions

start of layout -

+ for loop "y" 1 to 10

+ for loop "x" 1 to 10

actions

create family sprite

+set position x to 60*loopcountx

+set position y to 60*loopcounty

Thanks for the information, unfortunatley I have the free version not the full one.

Well you could either use the same block but set it's animation frame at random, or keep the same conditions and create a series of sub events like

conditions

start of layout -

+ for loop "y" 1 to 10

+ for loop "x" 1 to 10

action

set local variable to random(3)

sub event condition

+local variable = 0

create sprite type 1

+set position x to 60*loopcountx

+set position y to 60*loopcounty

sub event condition

+local variable = 1

create sprite type 2

+set position x to 60*loopcountx

+set position y to 60*loopcounty

etc

It would seem your loop is re-running every tick.

Select all of event two, and drag it into "On start of Layout" and you see it works.

All sorted with a combination of the above thanks alot.