[Solved] Does renpy.random.randint not work inside options.rpy?

[vorgbardo]

I'm trying to have a randomly selected audio file play while the player is at the main menu. However, for some reason I can't get the random selection to work there. The last option is always selected. Is renpy.random.randint not supposed to work inside options.rpy, or am I just making some daft mistake? The code is as follows:

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$ rng_main_menu_music = renpy.random.randint(1, 4)

if rng_main_menu_music > 3:
    define config.main_menu_music = "music/song1.mp3"
else:
    define config.main_menu_music = "music/song2.mp3"

[Ocelot]

define executes in init phase. Rest of code you wrote executes during normal script execution.
Your code is equivalent to:
Place all your code inside init block if you want it to execute during init phase.

[vorgbardo]

define executes in init phase. Rest of code you wrote executes during normal script execution.
Your code is equivalent to:
Place all your code inside init block if you want it to execute during init phase.

Thank you for the answer! Unfortunately I don't know how to do that in practice. What should be written and where to make it work? I tried the following change, but it did not fix the problem. And putting the if - else inside the init block caused an error.

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init python:
    rng_main_menu_music = renpy.random.randint(1, 4)

if rng_main_menu_music > 3:
    define config.main_menu_music = "music/song1.mp3"
else:
    define config.main_menu_music = "music/song2.mp3"

EDIT: Figured out what caused the error, can't have the "define" inside init block. This code works, in case someone else tries to do the same at some point:

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init python:
    rng_main_menu_music = renpy.random.randint(1, 4)

    if rng_main_menu_music > 3:
        config.main_menu_music = "music/song1.mp3"
    else:
        config.main_menu_music = "music/song2.mp3"

[Ocelot]

Now random choice is inside init block, but your conditions are not.
Right now it essentually works like that:

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init:
    python:
        rng_main_menu_music = renpy.random.randint(1, 4)
    define config.main_menu_music = "music/song1.mp3"
    define config.main_menu_music = "music/song2.mp3"

# Not init:
if rng_main_menu_music > 3:
    pass
else:
    pass

You want to place everything into init block.

[vorgbardo]

Yes, got it to work, edited my reply above to show what I had missed. Thanks for the help!