Yep how do I fix this? The devforum posts I read are doing it that way but they’re getting results and I’m not. Could it be, maybe, because I’m black?
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Well, math.random(1, Variables.Weight) generates a random integer from 1 to Variables.Weight, inclusive, so the greater than or equal condition will always be true.
There are multiple methods for picking from a weighted table.
If your weights are (and will always be) all integers, you could add a number of copies of the items equal to their weight into an array and pick a random item from the array like this:
local selector = {}
for item, weight in pairs(weightedTable) do
for i = 1, weight do
table.insert(selector, item)
end
end
local random = selector[math.random(1, #selector)]
Alternatively, if you want to use non-integer weights, here’s a function I have:
function SelectRandomKeyFromWeightedTable(tab)
local totalWeight = 0
for item, weight in pairs(tab) do
totalWeight += weight
end
local threshold = Random.new():NextNumber(0, totalWeight)
local current = 0
for item, weight in pairs(tab) do
current += weight
if threshold <= current then
return item
end
end
end
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Is the first one based on percentage? I’m trying to convert 20 as an integer to 100% as a percentage and use the chance system to get the likeliest event.
Edit: I tried a few minutes earlier doing
local int = 10
local maximumInt = 20
int/maximumInt*100``` but that doesnt help me in any capacity doesnt work
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Wait, what is this for? Why would there be a prize with a 100% win rate? You’re trying to select randomly from a table given weights, right?
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I’m making a match engine to play out a sport. There are different chances for events which are dynamic and will change according to whats going on in the game.
Foul play, for example, would be a low percentage but would increase if players get angry etc
Maybe this what you want?
local chance = 10 -- percentage
local random = math.random(0,100)
if chance > random then
print(random.."%", "You can get the prize")
else
print(random.."%" ,"Next time you will have it")
end
So what this code does is if the chance is 10% and the random was 5% you will get it ether if the chance was 20% you can’t have it
i was gonna use math.random() but it has no basis.
math.random(50,100) wouldnt be 50% for example
Well, if you’re going to use one of the methods I posted, the effective probabilities would be their weight / total weight.
So prize 1 has a 2 / 23 chance, prize 2 a 1 / 23, and prize 3 a 20 / 23 chance. Is this what you intend? The probabilities you commented in your dictionary don’t make sense, so I’m a little confused.
20 is the maximum chance, being 100%. I need to have an event run at random according to likeliness.
I tried Weighted Chance System but that doesn’t work and I don’t see anyone else complaining so I dunno if its just me
If you want 20 to be the maximum, you’d have to make all the weights sum to 20. If you want to adjust the probability of one event, you’d have to adjust the probabilities of all the others, so if you want one event to occur 100% of the time for some period, you have to set its weight equal to the max (20) and then change the weights of all other events to 0.
Have you tried using one of the functions I posted?
I tried the first function and it does pick out the most likely event but if its 20, the chance of something happening should be 100% but instead it’s going to the least likely events, at a chance of 1?
Edit: definitely a step in the right direction.
If the chance of something happening in a group of weights is 100%, then the other events should have a weight of 0. So your table should look like
Chances = {
["Prize1"] = 0,
["Prize2"] = 0,
["Prize3"] = 20,
},
And when you want to introduce some other prizes to the pool, you’d have to increase their weights and decrease the weight of prize 3 so that the total weight is still 20.
Chances = {
["Prize1"] = 2, -- 10%
["Prize2"] = 0,
["Prize3"] = 18, -- 90%
},
Alright I just tried and now the statistically most likely event was only printed twice, which is the lowest out of all in my group.
Chances = { --Chances ranging from 1 to 20 : 20 being highest and 1 being lowest
["TurnOver"] = 17, --Most likely
["Foul"] = 1,
["ShotSuccess"] = 1,
["PassSuccess"] = 1,
},
Yeah I just set all the odds to 0 and put TurnOver to 20 and Foul, ShotSuccess and PassSuccess still got printed.
local Events = {}
for _, i in Variables.Chances do table.insert(Events, _) --[[Add event names to table]] end
math.randomseed(os.time())
local event = Events[math.random(1, #Events)]
print(event)
my code
You’re getting these unexpected results because you’re not using the correct code from the first snippet I posted. You were inserting each event a single time into the array, so all the events effectively had the same chance of occurring. This should be correct.
math.randomseed(os.time())
local events = {}
for event, weight in pairs(Variables.Chances) do
for i = 1, weight do
table.insert(events , event)
end
end
local random = events [math.random(1, #events )]
print(random)
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What does the ‘for i= 1’ loop do?
Say your event has a weight of 17. The for i = 1, weight loop would insert 17 copies of the event name into the array.
And if you had another event with a weight of 3, it would insert 3 copies of that event.
Then we pick randomly from the array; there are 17 copies of the first event and 3 copies of the second event, so the first event has a 17 / 20 = 85% chance and second 3 / 20 = 15%.
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Ohh yeah mate. Cheers for that lad
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