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@@omegahaxors9-11 I don't think that part is actually terrible - the distance traveled still needs to be a random amount left or right from the player, so a loop function works pretty well. I don't like that they hardcoded the values and didn't add a break function, but just "setting the location" to be in-bounds sounds fairly arbitrary... how would you do it?

@@tarttapple i would make the minimum and maximum x value of his jail cell dynamic variables, set to whatever i want them to be for any reason. then if the position he wants to move to is outside of these bounds, it starts a loop that keeps adding/subtracting his desired X position until it's within legal limits. that way the range becomes flush with the wall and doesn't get smaller.

The simplest option here would be instead of looping when out of bounds, you clamp the value to those bounds (if x > 350, x = 350). It would lead to Dimentio appearing right next to the walls more often, but for more stable code it'd be worth the trade off. An ideal solution though would be to clamp the bounds themselves though, and then generate a random number within them afterwards. So you get the larger number between mario X - 200 and -350 and the smaller number between mario X + 200 and +350. Then you generate a random number between 0 and (upperBound - lowerBound), add that to the lower bound, and now you have effectively the same function but with no need for any loops whatsoever. It does have the weird quirk where it starts generating random negative numbers for Dimentio instead if mario is far enough out of bounds (assuming the random number generator allows that), but that shouldn't ever break anything and it's an easy enough fix if it does. Edit: also yeah hardcoding the values to 350 is pretty silly too lol

@@CurlyChop Yes! This is the exact reason why Dimentio crashes in enemy randomizers, especially in larger rooms. I appreciate the kind words :) I'd love to make more deep dives into SPM's programming like this in the future, maybe I'll also learn some real video editing skills along with that ;p No guarantee or promise on anything though, I'm not super interested in making more videos right now but maybe that'll change!

@@LardyMcBucket he was really scared of dimentio

@@Another45555 SO TRUE BESTIE MWAH MWAH MWAH

@@Another45555 yeah man absolutely. I just had to actually put in more attempts at some point

yes, this is from a while back. I never uploaded a lot of stuff to yt

ily bestie 🙏🙏