LUA. Spells go off random time.

[Performer]

Okay Id like to know how to make my mobs spells go off at random times. Atm i only know how to do them every say "10000" milliseconds.

Thanks

Performer

[Twisted7]

I've only recently started using Lua to script mobs, so I'm not 100% sure if this will work, but you could maybe try creating a sort of timer with a random "tick" interval using math.random.

Kinda hard for me to explain what I mean, here's the code:

--begin timer code
local timerInterval = 0;  --this is how many seconds it takes for the timer to run
local currentCount = 0;   --this is the number of seconds we've waited so far

function MobName_onEnterCombat(unit, event) --pick a number from 1-10, this will be the
  timerInterval = math.random(1,10) * 1000  --delay in seconds (multiply by 1000 for milliseconds)
  currentCount = 0;
  unit:RegisterEvent("MobName_Tick", 1000, 0) --our "timer" fires once per second
end

function MobName_Tick(unit, event)
  currentCount = currentCount + 1000      --increment the counter by 1 second
  if currentCount >= timerInterval then   --if the counter is equal to or greater than
    doStuffHere();                        --the interval, we cast our spell
    timerInterval = math.random(1,10) * 1000  --and then reinitialize our timer with another random interval.
    currentCount = 0;
  end
end
--end timer code

Not the most graceful way to do it, sure, but it should get the job done :P

Although, again, I'm not sure if it will work since I haven't used Lua outside of writing addons very much, so I don't know if you can define a local variable outside of a function.