Random layer visibility script

[Dawid Wiącek]

Hi, I'm just starting my adventure with creating scripts.
I'm looking for a way to create a "random" illustration based on sets of elements. I mean the case where we set up a scene where each element appears in several versions (e.g. organized in folders with only one visible layer) and the entire illustration is generated randomly. Something like a character generator in games. It is important that this happens automatically for a certain number of activities and that PS also exports files automatically to the folder.

Do you have this or a similar script that I could analyze, learn something about its structure and remember for the future?

Thank you in advance 🙂
Dawid

[Stephen Marsh]

Hi, I'm just starting my adventure with creating scripts.

By @Dawid Wiącek

I'd suggest that you have given yourself a complicated first project.

I'd suggest that you start small and build knowledge upon knowledge via experience.

First, learn how to turn on or off a single layer's visibility.

Then how do you do this for layers within a set/group?

How do you then iterate over all layers and their content?

How to randomly select a layer inside a group? What really is random anyway? Perhaps you actually want something else?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/script-to-turn-on-random-layers-expor...

https://github.com/mechanicious/photoshopCompositionComposer/tree/master

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What really is random anyway?

I think technically »pseudo-randomness« is the best we can use so far. 

Not that it should make a difference in most cases.