The Manipulate Variables action is designed to organize a collection of objects or variables. It can be used to, for example, randomly swap the positions of a collection of objects, or values within a collection of variables from largest to smallest, or to cascade objects vertically in a list.

#Operation

The type of manipulation to perform. Options are:

• Variables - Operate on a collection of variables.
• Object Positions - Operate on the X or Y position of a collection of objects.

#Method

The algorithm to apply for this operation. Options are:

• Shuffle - put the values specified in a random order.
• Sort - sort the values specified from smallest to largest
• Fill - fill the values specified with a series of numbers starting with Start Value and incrementing with each value by Increment.
• Randomize - fill the values specified with random numbers between Random Min Value and Random Max Value.

#Start Value

When using the Fill method, the first value in the series to begin the fill.

#Increment

When using the Fill method, the increment to apply to each value in the series. For example, if Start Value is set to 0 and Increment is set to one, the target values will be filled with 0, 1, 2, 3 etc.

#Random Min Value

When using the Randomize method, this field specifies the smallest possible value in the range to generate.

#Random Max Value

When using Randomize, this field specifies the larget possible value in the range to generate.

#Axis

When using the Object Postions operation, specifies which axis of the target object’s position to manipulate.

#Variable 1, 2, 3 … 10

The variables to manipulate when using the Variables operation. The maximum is 10.

#Object 1, 2, 3 … 10

The objects to manipulate when using the Object Positions operation. Up to 10 objects can be manipulated at once.