# Random start position movieclip
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-start-position-movieclip/96518
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 10, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-start-position-movieclip/96518 "2003-12-10T11:56:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Lucremonkey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Lucremonkey)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-start-position-movieclip/96518/1 "2003-12-10T11:56:09Z")
Another question beside my webshop question…
In my webshop I have 2 places where I can show special offers.
I have 10 special offers.
This mean that I want to display 5 offers per place.
I made a movieclip in Flash that contains all the special offers and they fade-out and in, so people get to see al of them.
I’m now looking for a script that will make the movieclip start playing at a different advert each time a person loads the website.
So I need an couple of Actions that make the movieclip start random at either frame number 0, 24, 48, etc.
In short: a script that makes my movieclip start at one of the 5 given frames at random.
Hope I made myself clear 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-start-position-movieclip/96518/2 "2003-12-10T12:02:05Z")
```auto
offersperpage=5
yourMovieClip.gotoAndPlay((Math.floor(Math.random()*(offersperpage+1)))*24);
```
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-start-position-movieclip/96518/3 "2003-12-10T12:07:40Z")
Thanks!
I haven’t done Flash in a while and forgot that Flash can solve a lot of problems easy as long as your being nice to it 😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-start-position-movieclip/96518/4 "2003-12-10T12:34:41Z")
😛
No problem 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-start-position-movieclip/96518/5 "2003-12-10T13:30:50Z")
Ok, let’s spice it up a bit:
I want the same effect (image fades in, then fades out), but I want the images to be loaded from an external source.
How can I do this?