SYNOPSIS:
I was trying to shuffle the contents of a range of variables, but couldn't figure out how, so I asked for help.
Night5h4d3 took the call, and progress was made toward the goal.
After posting back and forth, the problem was resolved, and my variables were successfully scrambled about.

END RESULT:

USAGE:
In your event, use the "Script..." command, copy/paste the above code,
then change "1..100" to whatever range of variables you want to shuffle.
(also, if you use this, you should probably credit Night5h4d3, it's only fair)

THANKS to Night5h4d3
for taking such a strange and badly-explained request, and for being patient with me until the problem was resolved.

if your trying to do this with events (IE: not in-script) then use a call script with this:



edit - if you want to go from 201 to whatever you can use this:



you can replace 201 with the first variable to use, and 300 with the last.

Actually, now that I think about it, is there any way to add all the variables from 1-100 into an array, shuffle them, and output them back into the original game variables?

That's really all I need to do.

Sorry. lol

I'm not sure what you mean by that, the list of variables is already stored in an array. Do you mean take say, variables 1, 2, 3 and 4, shuffling them (which would result in something like 3, 1, 2, 4) and then transferring them back to their position? (like the value for variable 3 becomes the value for 1, 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 3, 4 stays 4?)

Hey, yeah, that's exactly right!
Sorry I'm so bad at explaining things, but that's absolutely what I'm looking to do!

I cant guarantee this will work, but try:

Doesn't seem to do anything...

can you try this code and take a screenshot of what it returns?

It appears to return a string of each value of each variable from 1-60 (I'm only using 60 now)
(which I have set to be the value of each, so Var 1 is 1, Var 2 is 2, etc....)
Thus resulting in 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17..... but without space in between.

If I had to guess, I'd say that the "temp_arry.sort {rand}" line wasn't working properly.

Okay, I think I've finally got it.. try this:

VERY close!

I changed this:

into this:

to shuffle 60 variables instead of 100...

I get all my values shuffled to different variables just fine,
but 1 number ends up in Var.61, and somewhere in the mix there is a 0,
which is not the value of any of my variables (1-60).

EDIT:
I think I fixed it!

okay, i realized what I was doing wrong. normal arrays go from 0 to N, but with $game_variables it goes from 1 to N, which was leading to the extra number. This should work too:



It might be me, but with your variation, variable 100 (after the shuffle) kept returning 100 for me (3 times in a row)

You're right, I wonder why it does that...
Oh well, your new code works great and is much more elegant than my code-monkeying. lol
Thank you ever so much!