Placement Radius

[Kammak]

Does this function properly?

I get far less than "random" results when I use it...the object only gets created at the maximum radius possible, and only along a small angle from the center point.

Just a fluke on my end, or is this  function not working properly? Or, is it only calculated once, and not each time the mission is run?

Ditto on waypoint timeouts - I seem to get very little variance despite large differences between the min and max.  What's up with these?

[SilentHunter]

Try putting this in the units init field,

this setpos [(getpos this select 0) + ((random 300) * sin (random 360)) , (getpos this select 1) + ((random 300) * cos (random 360)) , 0]

That will give you a random placement of 600 meters wide, (300 radius)

[SilentHunter]

Another thing, random numbers are generated in your cpu, to make sure its generating a wide range of random numbers,

make a script

#top
player groupchat format["%1", (random 300)]
~0.1
goto "top"

then see if it varies between 0 and 300