Suggestion: allow us to provide our own Random object about gdx-ai HOT 6 CLOSED

Well, there's nothing stopping you from setting the MathUtils.random's seed.
You can even replace the Random instance since the static field random of MathUtils is not final.

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The problem with doing that to MathUtils is that many things use MathUtils.random in libgdx all over the place. It would mess up the games underlying model because some particle effect or something is in the game.

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This should not happen unless you use the Random instance from multiple threads.

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No this can happen easily and all the time.

For instance, if I have the game running with a specific seed and see how it runs, then I decide it would look cool if the main character has a particle trail when he moves. Now this new visual effect will change the outcome of all the AI because its using the same random number generator.

Anything at all you change in the game of its view/rendering would possibly be changing the game's model.

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Oh now I see what you mean.
But I think that even a dedicated random generator instance would not let you accurately reproduce game sequences since FPS is not deterministic. Actually, you use the random generator more frequently when FPS is high and less when is low.

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ah because it uses random inside of update calls. I guess I wasn't thinking it all the way through. I guess this was a pointless suggestion then. It would be cool if it were possible though.

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