Alternative animations for the same attack

Character coding is kinda obscur to me, and I need some help to understand (and succed) my little goal there:
I wish an attack of the character I am editing have several possible animations. Picked randomly between several animations (ll wiht the same hitboxes and frame amount)

I do not find much explanations about this on the web, but I am looking into characters who had similar stuff in there code.

I do looked into the code of "SHANG TSUNG MK1" by "OMEGAPSYCHO"
His reptile form had a stand animation what randomly alternate between two:


[State 0, 1] ;REPTILE
type = ChangeAnim
triggerall = Var(38) = 1
trigger1 = !time
value = ifelse(random<=500,18000,18002)

18000 and 18002 are the two stand animations, but what is the value 500 there ? (there is a anim 500 in the air file, but it is not related to reptile)


Because I do tryed to use that code on the character I am working on :

[statedef 1310]
type = s
movetype = a
physics = s
anim = ifelse(random<=500,1400,1401)
ctrl = 0
velset = 0,0

(the anim 1400 & 1401 are two of the wished anims I made)
So, with this code, it worked. The attack had two different animations, picked randomly, however I still don't kow what the "500" mean there...

But when I tried to had 8 possible aniomations (yes, this is my goal there) it crashed

[statedef 1310]
type = s
movetype = a
physics = s
anim = ifelse(random<=500,1400,1401,1402,1403,1404,1405,1406,1407,1408)
ctrl = 0
velset = 0,0

So, what is wrong between 2 alt anims and 8 there ? Is it the "500" what is the problem there ?

I think you should have new codes (even similar codes but different numbers referring to those animations) for each animation...then you should have new codes for commands referring to those animations

Saddly, I do not have this level of coding on characters.
My knowedge is pretty basic in this category

Try to make a simple special starting to Copy an existing code special
1.make animation and give It a specific number and save in .air file
2.copy the code of your preferred special and try to insert the specific number of that animation and save in .cns or .st file
3. Copy the command code of your preferred special and insert the specific number of the referring code And save in .cmd file

Rember there are relations into Number of animation , Number of code and number of command