Using Randomisation to Find Setups You Would Not Have Tried
Depth, intensity, group targeting and safe mode. Controlled randomisation instead of a blind shuffle.
In This Tutorial
Why Randomise
The Studio has enough settings that you will naturally keep returning to the same corner of it. Randomisation, in the Physics tab, exists to push you out of that corner. It is not a blind shuffle: you control how much of the configuration it is allowed to touch and how far it can move each value, so you can use it as a gentle variation tool on a setup you already like, or as a full reset when you want something unfamiliar.
- •Save your current configuration first. Randomisation overwrites live settings.
Depth and Intensity
Depth decides how much of the configuration is in scope, from a light touch to a full randomisation. Intensity decides how far each affected value moves from where it is now. The two are independent, and the useful combination is usually a wide depth with a low intensity: many settings nudged slightly gives you a recognisable variation of what you had, while few settings moved dramatically usually just breaks one thing.
- •Wide depth with low intensity is the setting worth learning. It produces variations you can actually use.
Choosing Groups
Setting Depth to Custom unlocks group selection, so you can randomise colours while leaving physics untouched, or vice versa. This is how you use randomisation for a specific purpose rather than a general reroll. If you have spent time getting a run to land at the right length, randomise the visual groups only, since touching physics would invalidate that work and any seed you generated against it.
- •Group targeting is what makes this a tool rather than a toy. Randomise visuals over a physics setup you already trust.
Safe Mode and Mode Rerolls
Safe Mode constrains randomisation to combinations that produce a working simulation, which stops you landing on a configuration where nothing moves or everything immediately stalls. Leave it on unless you are deliberately hunting for extreme results. Random Mode Every Roll additionally changes the simulation mode on each reroll, which is worth turning on when you are exploring what the platform can do and off when you are refining a specific clip.
- •Turn Safe Mode off only when you are exploring and prepared for most rolls to be unusable.
A Working Loop
The routine that works: save a configuration you like, set Depth to Custom, select only the visual groups, set a low intensity, and reroll several times, saving anything worth keeping. You will build a set of variants on one physics setup that all behave identically but look different, which is exactly what you want for posting consistently without repeating yourself visually.
- •Save every roll you like immediately. There is no history of previous rolls to go back to.
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