I am making a startup code for my birds to fly over the screen. My problem is this:
I want to be able to randomly let the birds appeare on the screen, at the same place as the other bird was before but not with the same time between them. As it is now the birds comes out on the screen every 7 seconds.
I have tried
sleep(7) + random(100);
and
sleep(7 + random(100));
but none of these did the trick.
I want them to come not regular...if you get my drift..I have marked with red where I tried it.
What am I doing wrong? The code works fine, only need to do what I asked with it.
Does anyone know a solution to my problem?

Code:

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  function lag_fugler6back_startup()//blue bird oppsite way
{
	sleep (7); // wait until the level is loaded
	while (1)
	{
		temp.x =500; //original -1000
		temp.y = -400 ;//+ random (3000);//original 1000
		temp.z = -250;//+ random (500); //original 500
		
		ent_create (crow_mdl, temp.x,flytt3_fugl_motsattvei);
		sleep (7); // generate a birds   <-- I want to change this?  
	}
}  

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it's: sleep(7 + random(100));

are you sure you want it to be 100 though?
that would be more than a minute. but... try it.

Germanunkol is right, do you really want it to be 100??? Think about this:

sleep(x); //X= second
wait(x); //X= 1/16 second

I think it was so!?! I hope it'll help.


DerLateinProfi

thanks that did the trick...
I have changed it to
sleep(7 + random(50));
and it did what I wanted. And you was right...it was to much time to wait with 100....

sleep(x); is old syntax, use wait(-x); instead.

wait(-x); => waits x seconds

your code would be:
wait(-1 * (7 + random(50)));

Uh, sorry, I forgot to add that, yeah.
sleep(1); will still work now, but not any more in the newer editions, is that right? yeah, wait(-7) replaces sleep(7) now...

i will change that...every sleep to wait...thanks...