Hi everyone, I’m able to get the y position of the circle to be randomised however it doesn’t stay in one spot. It changes the y position of the circle between (25,240) while running the code. I was trying to get the circle in a random position every time I run the code rather than it changing while the code is running. This is my current code for it. All help will be highly appreciated!
int x = 30;
int y = 60;
float gunX = x+20;
float gunY = y+20;
float circleY;
boolean bulletFlies=false;
float bulletX = 20;
float bulletY = 20;
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The draw() function is running several times per second. So if you have a random() function there it will give different values at each call of draw() so several times per second.
Setup() on the other hand only run once so a random() call there will give you a random value every time you launch your program but if you store it in a variable, it sill stay the same during the full execution.
This is already what you are doing with:
circleY = random(25,480);
But then in draw(), you have:
circle(450, random(circleY), 80);
What you program is doing is:
Pick a value at random between 25 and 480and store it in circleY.
At every loop, pick a random value between 0 and circleY.
I suppose that’s second step is where you don’t want to pick another random value. Instead you want to use directly the circleY variable that already contain a random value:
