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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 93715" data-attributes="member: 152">It's not hard at all...just a few lines will do it.[CODE]using namespace System;double baseSpeed, finalSpeed, baseAngle, finalAngle;Random ^ rng = gcnew Random;...finalSpeed = baseSpeed * (0.9 + (rng->NextDouble() * 0.2)); // final speed is random value between 90% and 110% of base speedfinalAngle = baseAngle - 5 + (rng->NextDouble() * 10); // final angle (in degrees) is random value within 5 degrees of base angle...[/CODE]Or if you wanted to get fancy and plan ahead for a user-adjustable "Kickout Variation" option in the future:[CODE]using namespace System;double baseSpeed, finalSpeed, baseAngle, finalAngle;double kickoutVariation = 0.1; // value from 0.0 to 1.0 from a user-adjustable slider somewhere that controls how "random" kickouts should be, default = 0.1Random ^ rng = gcnew Random;...finalSpeed = baseSpeed * (1 - kickoutVariation + (rng->NextDouble() * 2 * kickoutVariation)); // final speed is base speed times a random value between (1 - userVariation) and (1 + userVariation)finalAngle = baseAngle - (50 * kickoutVariation) + (rng->NextDouble() * 100 * kickoutVariation); // final angle (in degrees) is random value within (50 * userVariation) degrees of base angle...[/CODE]Or for extra realism, since most physical machines are not completely random but generally have a "typical" kickout that happens most of the time, and only sometimes do they vary and surprise the player:[CODE]using namespace System;double baseSpeed, finalSpeed, baseAngle, finalAngle;double kickoutVariation = 0.1; // value from 0.0 to 1.0 from a user-adjustable slider somewhere that controls both the chance and the magnitude of a "random" kickout, default = 0.1Random ^ rng = gcnew Random;...if (rng->NextDouble() < kickoutVariation) // as kickoutVariation increases, random adjustments to the kickout both happen more often and are larger in magnitude{    finalSpeed = baseSpeed * (1 - kickoutVariation + (rng->NextDouble() * 2 * kickoutVariation)); // final speed is base speed times a random value between (1 - userVariation) and (1 + userVariation)    finalAngle = baseAngle - (50 * kickoutVariation) + (rng->NextDouble() * 100 * kickoutVariation); // final angle (in degrees) is random value within (50 * userVariation) degrees of base angle}else{    finalSpeed = baseSpeed;    finalAngle = baseAngle;}...[/CODE]And so on and so forth...</blockquote>

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