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MEL scripting - array decreasing procedure with random selection

I'm sharing a small algorithm I developed for the last production I've been working on. I needed to randomly select characters in a scene and assign a value, but I wanted to avoid to occasionally select twice the same character.

This procedure randomly select an element in an array and delete it so that the array size decrease until all elements are gone and the array is empty.

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proc randDecreasArray(){
    
    string $arr[] = {"a","b","c","d","e","f","g"};
    string $nwArr[] = $arr;

    int $sz = size($arr);
    int $rm = $sz;

    $prntArr = stringArrayToString($arr, ".");
    print ($prntArr + "\n");

    for ($i in $arr){

        int $rnd = rand(0, $rm);
    
        $nwArr = stringArrayRemove ({$nwArr[$rnd]},$nwArr);
        $rm --;
    
        $prnt = stringArrayToString($nwArr, ".");
        print ($prnt + "\n");

    }

}

randDecreasArray()

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cheers

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2014 film reel

federico's film reel 2014 from Federico Cascinelli on Vimeo.

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Reel total time - 02:05

@ 00:05 Charlie and Chocolate Factory - keyframe animation
@ 00:14 Iron Man 2 - rigging & animation
@ 00:24 X Men iii - animation & rotomation
@ 00:50 King Arthur - ice breaking animation & camera + crowd agents setup
@ 01:15 10.000 BC - keyframe cycles animation & shot creation
@ 01:33 Iron Man 3 - animation, rigging & rotomation
@ 01:53 Harry Potter 4 - keyframe animation

My filmography also include (not in this reel):

Aardman's Pirates - previz artist (first act sequence)
The Day the Earth Stood Still - previz artist (spaceship landind sequence + final sequence)

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nCloth Dynamic Skin

nCloth Dynamic Skin (touch & pinch) from Federico Cascinelli on Vimeo.

(tutorial in progress...)

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