Randomizer Between Two Numbers

[RickyRombo]

How do you have the Randomizer in the expression generate a number between x and y, e.g. 2 and 10? Should be easy, just want to make sure I do it right. I want to make my RPG character be able to have his weapon hit damage between numbers that change as the user levels up.

Sorry for two completely different threads in one day, I'm making two games at the same time.

[Gerblegod7]

Well you would use something along these lines.

You would use Random(x+1)+y as the expression for the amount of damage to deal.

In this scenario x would be the range of the high and low values minus 1. For instance a high of 10 and a low of 0 would have a range of 10 so you would use 10 as x and it would allow you to deal dame 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 but not 10 so that's why you add one to x.

In this case y is your minimum. y represents the lowest amount of damage you can deal. If you want the minimum of a level 10 person to be 5 then you would use Random(x+1)+5. If you were using 10 for x and five for y then you could deal 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15.

Hope this makes sense and helps.

[Joeyotrevor]

Gerblegod7's way works well, but you can also use the Randomizer extension which always you to get a random number between 2 values.
Here's the link:
http://www.clickteam.info/extensions/extview.php?id=51

[danjo]

or mersenne twister random object by c.branch is nicer.

[James]

Simplified version of Gerblegod's post:

X = lower
Y = upper
D = Y-X

(X+Random(D+1))