How do I carry a variable past 'Until'?
I'm trying to have the game select two children from a model. I want it to select one, then select a different one (such as two flavors of tea). The script for choosing the first works perfectly, but then I have it chose a second item using a Repeat (in case it chooses the first object again, as I want two unique choices). However, the chosen2 variable is 'nil' when I ask it to print after 'until.' I feel like I may be missing something obvious here but I'm not sure. Any explanation for this?
function Choose2 (Chosen1)
print (Chosen1) --prints the name of the first chosen object fine, such as "Peppermint"
repeat
local Chosen2 = (Items[math.random(1,#Items)])
print(Chosen2) -- prints the name of the second chosen object fine, such as "Earl Grey"
until Chosen2 ~= Chosen1
print (Chosen2) -- prints nil
end
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Like Painter said it's much better removing the values from your table and getting a random value out of that, however you should never edit the original table otherwise you'll lose your values forever. Instead I recommend making something called a "shallow copy".
It's basically a clone of your original table key and value pairs, only thing we need to do is make sure that Chosen1 is not within this clone which is easy:
local teas = {"Mint", "Grey", "Strawberry", "God knows what"}
local first = teas[1] -- This would be the Chosen1 value
function Choose2(Chosen1)
local otherTeas = GetTableWithout(teas, Chosen1)
print(unpack(otherTeas))
local Chosen2 = otherTeas[math.random(1, #otherTeas)]
print(Chosen1)
print(Chosen2)
end
function GetTableWithout(t, value)
local t2 = {}
for k,v in pairs(t) do
if v ~= value then
table.insert(t2, v)
end
end
return t2
end
Choose2(first)
This is the basic idea behind it
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