Random images across repeated shape

[brandong15628877]

I'm wondering if there would be a way to have different images on, let's say four squares, but I want the images to be randomly selected. For example if I had 8 images to choose from, I want four of them to be randomly chosen and randomly placed over the center of each square for the entire duration of the object

[kirkeric]

This is a bit difficult to visualize.  Can you provide a better idea, perhaps a screenshot of how this is designed and then explain?

Thanks,
Eric

[brandong15628877]

Well the design is really simple, each comp has four squares in them (ill be using more but this is only for an example), there would be 8 or more images in Project (dont have any images on desktop right now)

I want to randomly assign each square an image from Project. and in each of the following comp i want to randomly assign different pictures from Project. I am going to be making a lot of squares with randomly selected images in the center of each of them, and for every comp i want it to be a different randomized selection from the same set of photos. once i can get back to my main device ill try to give a more detailed example if you dont understand yet, sorry im not too good at explaining this

[brandong15628877]

edit:"group1" "group2" etc. are meant to be the comps i mentioned sorry

[Szalam]

You can make your random images inside their own precomp and have each one frame long and then sequence them. Then, apply a random value to a time remapping expression to make it randomly choose which image to display.

[brandong15628877]

thanks that sounds like it would work, I haven't tried yet but how would I prevent the same ima from showing up in several boxes. Like what if one photo gets randomly selected for more than one square

[Szalam]

You could randomly sort your photos in the precomp and then set the squares to grab a certain frame based on their layer index. That would make things random, but not repeated.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi BrandonG,

What did you end up doing? Did Szalam's advice help?

Thanks,

Kevin