Random Loot, spawning and other??

I feel like I always come back to this question and I've never really come away with a solid answer.

Is there a simple, full-proof way of creating items at random?

Kill and enemy, an item is selected from a pool at random for it's loot. Or, you have an item that spawns random enemies..

I feel like this is a very basic function most games have to create variety but C2 doesn't have a quick behavior for it like everything else.

Anyone have links to tutorials or know a quick/easy way to do this?

Thank you,

There are much more elegant ways but the easiest I can think of off hand is this:

On enemy destroyed > set value of powerupvariable to floor(random(100)) (or whatever number you like).

Then.

If powerupvariable = 1 > spawn powerup1

if powerupvariable = 2 > spawn powerup2 etc...

This way if you have 10 powerups then with the above formula you would have a 10% chance of getting a random powerup.

There are much more elegant ways but the easiest I can think of off hand is this:

On enemy destroyed > set value of powerupvariable to floor(random(100)) (or whatever number you like).

Then.

If powerupvariable = 1 > spawn powerup1

if powerupvariable = 2 > spawn powerup2 etc...

This way if you have 10 powerups then with the above formula you would have a 10% chance of getting a random powerup.

THANK YOU!!!!

This is what I needed!

I just made a simple mock up with the idea you posted and with a few little changes I got a working model. This is so simple, but so incredibly powerful.

Another way you can also just put all the things you want to choose from inside a family then spawn that family it will spawn one of the objects randomly

Another way you can also just put all the things you want to choose from inside a family then spawn that family it will spawn one of the objects randomly

Can you elaborate?

I'm going to test this but I thought that families would spawn as a group and not as a single item one at a time.

If you you use the Create Object Action an set it to a family it will create one instance of a single random object you put into the family