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Cburg
10-06-2008, 11:56 PM
I was reading the thread about triggers and thinking about using them in both my Christmas lights and a Halloween haunt. I am still on the steep side of the learning curve but I wanted to ask if there is a way to have a trigger fire say one sequence out of five. Then the next time the trigger fires a different one of the five. The results would be random, so no one would know just where to look.

I am thinking of a room with a motion sensor that fires when someone enters. But each time a different person enters something new happens. Maybe the first kid see the coffin open, the next kids see the spider attack. The third kid may see the coffin again but the next kid sees the Chain Saw Killer. I do not have a lot of real estate to accommodate a lot of things but if I could combine them into one or two rooms I could do more.

For Christmas, I want to make some interactive displays so I need to have people say … push a button and not have the same thing happen every time. I want to keep them guessing what’s coming next.

Thanks
From a voice of the past
Cburg

alwysrit2
10-07-2008, 01:41 AM
Welcom Cburg! The short answer is no (as far as I know) there isn't a random type function. The long answer - I think it could be done by calling an outside .bat job that would do the randomizing then using either the network trigger or the client/server setup, you could start the desired sequence.
Good luck!
-Don