Modulo and osiris randomness - Larian Studios forums

I love the random possibilities of the script (getRandomWeight is amazing), but I am perplexed by the random in Osiris.
What is modulo, how does it work ?
Like if I enter a modulo of 7, what result will I get ?

If you call "Random(7, _random)" from my understanding you should get a random number from 0 to 6. You can test this with (for example):

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IF
CharacterUsedItem(_char, ITEMGUID_UNIQUE_TUT_LowerDeck_Morticia_000_92dec286-f7ae-436a-939a-b83cdec31973)
AND
Random(7, _random)
AND
IntegertoString(_random, _string) // larian, why is this lower case? Going by the naming convention shouldn't this be IntegerToString ? ;P
THEN
DisplayText(_char, _string);

which displays a new random number on top of the character every time you use the Skull (Morticia).

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If you call "Random(7, _random)" from my understanding you should get a random number from 0 to 6.

Indeed. You can work with chances this way:

IF
...
AND
Random(10,_Number)
AND
_Number == 1
THEN
...

That should be a 10% chance to execute the THEN-part.

44% would be:

...
Random(100,_Number) //the engine returns an integer between 0 and 99
AND
_Number < 44 //0-43 (so 44 integers out of 100 are a win)
THEN
...

Less intuitive than randomization in object scripts, but useful.

Thanks a lot, this is far than enough to be, indeed, very usefull.

Going to answer your question concerning modulo.

Modulo works with division in that it returns the remainder and not the quotient. It's also a very good way to check if a number is divisible by another number. If the result is any number other than 0, it's not divisible.

If you were to do this: 3 % 2, it will return 1. Standard mode for calculators don't allow the % sign to be used for modulo. Calculators in scientific mode will have a Mod button. So can do 3 Mod 2 as well.

In programming(at least for JS) you can use %.

Thanks Rasikko, I searched modulo on the net, and found what you are talking about. But it made no real sense in an Osiris randomness way.