How do you code a name generator in Scratch? The whole

add [] to [list v]

thing is confusing me when generating names. Thanks!

What do you mean by name generator? Can you expand on what you are trying to do or share your project to see what you have so far.

add [Name] to [list v]

Type a name into there, click it once and it will be added to the list then delete the name and write another, repeat until you have as many names on the list as you want.

Then you can use.

(item (Random v) of [list v] :: list)

In something like a

say [] 

Somewhere which will pick one of the names at random and say it.

Hi, it could take a while for you… by reading http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24374 you will get some ideas about construct personal names in English.

asivi wrote:

Hi, it could take a while for you… by reading http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24374 you will get some ideas about construct personal names in English.

I think that they mean by giving a random name when something happens, if so, ThanksAnts_Thants method would work although I wouldn't recommend this

say []

block for it.

duckboycool wrote:

asivi wrote:

Hi, it could take a while for you… by reading http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24374 you will get some ideas about construct personal names in English.

I think that they mean by giving a random name when something happens, if so, ThanksAnts_Thants method would work although I wouldn't recommend this

say []

block for it.

It could be.

@spycat-123 I've found https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/233605/ it is pretty helpful for your purpose.

when green flag clicked
forever
repeat until <(length) = [???]>
change [length v] by (1)
add (letter (pick random (1) to (26)) of [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]) to [list v]
end
set [name v] to (list :: list)
delete (All v) of [list v]
set [length v] to ((1) - (10))
end

this should a sequence of random letters, in no particular order

monkeybike123 wrote:

when green flag clicked
forever
repeat until <(length) = [???]>
change [length v] by (1)
add (letter (pick random (1) to (26)) of [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]) to [list v]
end
set [name v] to (list :: list)
delete (All v) of [list v]
set [length v] to ((1) - (10))
end

this should a sequence of random letters, in no particular order

This wouldn't make names.(Usually anyway) And I'm not sure if that's what they mean. Although it is hard to understand in general. Could you (the OP) please clarify what you want.

duckboycool wrote:

monkeybike123 wrote:

when green flag clicked
forever
repeat until <(length) = [???]>
change [length v] by (1)
add (letter (pick random (1) to (26)) of [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]) to [list v]
end
set [name v] to (list :: list)
delete (All v) of [list v]
set [length v] to ((1) - (10))
end

this should a sequence of random letters, in no particular order

This wouldn't make names.(Usually anyway) And I'm not sure if that's what they mean. Although it is hard to understand in general. Could you (the OP) please clarify what you want.

it set the variable word to some random letters, the only way to get names would be to manually add them to a list

I know what it's doing. I was saying that it wouldn't create names. Anyway, I'd like to focus on this part of my post.

duckboycool wrote:

Although it is hard to understand in general. Could you (the OP) please clarify what you want.

duckboycool wrote:

I know what it's doing. I was saying that it wouldn't create names. Anyway, I'd like to focus on this part of my post.

duckboycool wrote:

Although it is hard to understand in general. Could you (the OP) please clarify what you want.

what did you mean by that? please could you explain!

I mean that your method wouldn't actually create names, and would instead spout out random letter to a variable. I was saying that the OP (orignal post) was unclear on their meaning, and should explain in more depth what they meant. Now lets move on from this please.

So I was thinking of making something like a Warrior name generator…..(has two parts- prefix and suffix) but I dunno how…

Could have two lists, one with prefix names and the other with suffix.
Then use

(join (item (Random v) of [prefix v] :: list) (item (Random v) of [suffix v] :: list)

Will probably need to add a space between them though.
(Easiest way is manually hitting space before entering the suffix names imo)

For the space you could do;

(join (join (item (pick random (1) to (length of [Prefix v] :: list)) of [Prefix v] :: list) [ ]) (item (pick random (1) to (length of [Suffix v] :: list)) of [Suffix v] :: list))

Quote it to see what it is fully.

Hi, i was a bit bored, so i've spemt some time making a Random Cat Names thing for you. Ihope it helps.

asivi wrote:

Hi, i was a bit bored, so i've spemt some time making a Random Cat Names thing for you. Ihope it helps.

Thanks!!!!!

Is this what you're looking for? https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/90739052/

I need to generate a random warrior name and I don't know what to do. Warrior names need variety

leopard999999999 wrote:

I need to generate a random warrior name and I don't know what to do. Warrior names need variety

Just do use one of the solutions in responses above.
Reporting to be closed.