Material Proxies, specifically EntityRandom

[jjtigg]

Yo.

I'm trying to get a random color set in my .vmt, using Material Proxies. I can set the color manually, or even randomly in an animated fashion using Sine or Noise, but I just want to set it once, randomly per Entity. This *should* be exactly what EntityRandom does, but I can't seem to get it to do anything. Here's the relevant part of the .vmt :

        $green	"[0 1 0]"
	$red	"[1 0 0]" 
	
	$randomised	"0"
	
	$zerovar	"0.5"

	"Proxies"
		{
		"EntityRandom" 
			{
				"scale" "100"
				"resultVar" "$randomised"
			}

		LessOrEqual 
			{
				lessEqualVar $green
				greaterVar $red
				srcVar1 $randomised  //if this is greater
				srcVar2 $zerovar	  //than this
				resultVar $color	  //it will be black
			}
		}

It seems like EntityRandom just isn't setting the '$randomised' variable. I don't know if it's because my scale is off? I'm also not sure if there's any way to get the current value of a material proxy variable to show up in the console.

Does anyone have any experience with Material Proxies?

Thanks for the help.