I love the &quot;random&quot; input in the shader editor; it makes it so easy to randomize duplicated objects by changing the color and offsetting textures and all that. It would be crazy useful to be able to do a similar thing with shapekeys, so the geometry can vary as well. I can control the value with a driver, and I tried the method in , but that changes the shapekey value on every frame (as happens with every &quot;random&quot; solution I've tried so far), which means in an animation it's a jittery mess (he suggests &quot;muting&quot; the drivers to fix this, but the scene still runs super slowly, since I think it's still running the randomizer for every value for every frame, even if you can't see it). So my question is, how can I give that shapekey a random static value? I figure something like multiplying the object's ID by a wacky number or something, but I just can't figure it out. I feel embarrassed posting this, because I feel like this is a fairly basic thing that's probably answered elsewhere, but I've been searching obsessively for a couple days and just keep finding the same few threads over and over, so hopefully someone here knows?? Thanks in advance!
My question is related to my previous asked one:   I have about 300 shapekeys and want to set the random value for all of them . How to do it using scripting?
What happened to the "very low quality" flag reason? Possible Duplicate:          I see a  to receive a "very low quality" flag by me.  It's just a link pointing elsewhere basically saying, "try this." I generally do this for answers I see that are like this and have been successful every time so far.  I save "not a real answer" flag for other cases such as someone asking another question in an answer or "thanks" answers.  I want to flag it as "VLQ" but I don't see that as an option*.  In fact, I don't see it as an option anymore on any site throughout the Stack Exchange network.  * This was not possible before when I initially posted this. Michael's observation on the needed downvote seems to be the reason it didn't show up.  Did it just get phased out as being unnecessary?  Should I be using "NARA" as the flag reason for this case now?  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