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Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Limit randomSeed Scope Feb 14th, 2009, 9:45am   Sometimes i want to use randomSeed but not on all of the randoms i use in my code. For example, if i want to use it only for the color to be the same, but the movement should still be different everytime i run it... How do you solve that problem?
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PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Limit randomSeed Scope Reply #1 - Feb 14th, 2009, 9:57am   I fear that this seed is global. A solution is to have two (or more!) independent random number generators (RNG). Note we have that already (more or less) with noise and random. Otherwise, a well known good RNG is Mersenne Twister, which has a number of implementations in Java. There are simpler RNGs, too...