Random pause time

[gamajorbatistan]

So I'm using this code to try to get random pause time, but like everything else I ever tried to do with RenPy, it's not working. It's always the same pause time. Is it because always the same one-time-randomly-generated number is called? How do I make it re-roll the number?

Here I define my RNG generator

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  $ dice=renpy.random.randint(1,15)*0.1

Here is where it's not working for some reason? Ignore the silly dialogue, I just made that up.

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    Jimmy "Hahaha I like fart jokes!"
    pause dice
    Svetlana "Hi I'm Svetlana"
    pause dice
    Jimmy "Hahaha that's such a beautiful name"
    pause dice
    Jimmy "Hahaha ..."

If I instead do THIS (which I would think would re-roll the dice before every callign of the number)
$ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1

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    Jimmy "Hahaha I like fart jokes!"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    Svetlana "Hi I'm Svetlana"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    Jimmy "Hahaha that's such a beautiful name"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    Jimmy "Hahaha ..."

I get the following error:

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File "game/script.rpy", line 64: expected 'comma or end of line' not found.
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1

[Remix]

Not entirely sure why your script is throwing an error...

To get round the "same all the time" though, maybe call a function:

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init python:

    def get_random( range=(0.1, 0.6) ):

        return type( range[0] )( 
                      range[0] 
                      + renpy.random.random() 
                        * ( range[1] - range[0] ) )

label start:

    "Start"

    pause get_random()

    "Middle"

    pause get_random( (0.5, 2.0) )

    "End Pauses"

    $ p = get_random()
    "Random = [p!q]"

    $ p = get_random()
    "Random = [p!q]"

    $ p = get_random()
    "Random = [p!q]"

    $ p = get_random( (1, 50) ) ## integers not floats test
    "Random = [p!q]"

[Per K Grok]

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If I instead do THIS (which I would think would re-roll the dice before every callign of the number)
$ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1

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    Jimmy "Hahaha I like fart jokes!"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    Svetlana "Hi I'm Svetlana"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    Jimmy "Hahaha that's such a beautiful name"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    Jimmy "Hahaha ..."

I get the following error:

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File "game/script.rpy", line 64: expected 'comma or end of line' not found.
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1

I've duplicated your code and tested it in my game (using a bit of dialogue from that game).

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    jp "Claude! Do you hear that?"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    cl "The aeroplane? Of course I hear it, Jean Pierre. [dice]"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    jp "Is it a Nieuport? [dice]"
    $ dice = renpy.random.randint(1,6)*0.1
    pause dice
    cl "Yes. It sounds like that engine has taken a beating. [dice]"

In each line of dialogue I have also added the value of dice at the time.

I get no error and
for each line I get a different value for dice.

I have no idea what could wrong in your code, but the 'random generator' seem to do it's job.

I also wonder a bit on the purpose of having a pause that delays the showing of the next line of dialogue, and a random pause at that.