Random ALE colors

[Firekiss]

Hi there. Does anyone know how to make random color settings in an ALE file?

[StarTrader]

In general, yes…

Write an exec that updates the relevant .ale files on the fly as FL is running.

Then change the FL and FLServer engines so that it re-reads the .ale files (and any other affected files) from time to time, maybe 3-4 times per second.

You can then easily expand this to have a dynamic economy (changing commodity prices) too! And many other functions!

That is my personal view. As for how? Dunno!!

Then stand by for a possible thick ear from Microsoft.

[OPR8R]

what did you just say about “old short and sour ways”?
Be nice ^^

[aden]

Do you perhaps want “set” randomness? I haven’t looked at FL or .ales in a LONG time now so I don’t remember how the color part of the ale looks but I know I made missile trails that would constantly change colors. Not totally random though, just I added more lines of varied colors and had really small time increments of like 0.00000500 and so on.

I think it would look like this sort of

1.00000000, 1.00000000, 0.50000000, 0.00005000
0.80000000, 0.50000000, 1.00000000, 0.00010000

and so on. r,g,b,time
r,g,b,time
etc.

I had alot of lines. But sorry, its not really “random”. You all probably know this anyways.

later