random clips from a menu button

henbus wrote on 11/13/2006, 9:23 AM
I will start off by saying I don't think this is possible, but I thought I'd throw it out there. I have the Archictect Studio 4 software. I am working on making a homemade Scene it! game for a family gathering. I have purchased the real deal and the main menu has options, specifically of an "all play" or "my play" that leads you to a clip and question etc. The interesting part is that each time you click them, a new random question is played. Is this possible in this program? I haven't spent a lot of time playing around but my thought is that I would have to have the button go to another submenu with "all play 1, all play 2 etc" listed out. Am I right in my assumption or does anyone know a way to create this random clip effect when you hit a menu button? Thank you for any help you can give.

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ScottW wrote on 11/13/2006, 10:43 AM
Not with DVDAS - with DVDA 4 though you do have scripting and via scripting can get enough access to the low level command set to do some of this, though honestly I wouldn't want to try something sophisticated like SceneIt with DVDA4 either - DVD Lab Pro would be ok though.

Even with DLP there are some serious stumbling blocks - many DVD players implement a very rudimentary random number generator, and more often then not, the same sequence of numbers may be returned each time you insert a disk. Getting a good seed for a random number generator can also be problematic, since not all DVD players correctly increment counters (which are sometimes used for a seed). And then you probably don't really want random - true random means that you could end up repeating something, so what you really want is random, but once a question has been used, you don't repeat it - again, this can be done, but it adds complexity.

--Scott
henbus wrote on 11/13/2006, 1:15 PM
Scott,
Thanks for the reply... I was afraid it was a no-go. Sounds like another menu below the main, not the end of the world by any means.