# Random animation delays?
**URL:** https://phaser.discourse.group/t/random-animation-delays/7353
**Category:** Phaser 3
**Created:** [September 4, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/random-animation-delays/7353 "2020-09-04T08:55:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kittykatattack](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/kittykatattack)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/random-animation-delays/7353/1 "2020-09-04T08:55:08Z")
Hi Everyone,
I’m trying to create a looping animation with a random `repeatDelay`. This code _should_ work but for some reason the new random value for `repeatDelay` isn’t being applied to the `currentAnim`:
```javascript
const blinkAnimation = this.anims.create({
key: "blink",
frames: blinkFrames,
frameRate: 10,
repeat: -1,
repeatDelay: 1000,
});
blinkAnimation.on("repeat", currentAnim => {
currentAnim.repeatDelay = Phaser.Math.RND.integerInRange(2000, 6000);
});
```
When I log the value of `currentAnim.repeatDelay` I can see the new random number is being applied, but the actual animation still just repeats based on the original value.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks!! 🙂
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### Author:  [@samme](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/samme)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/random-animation-delays/7353/2 "2020-09-04T15:12:17Z")
I think if the sprite is already playing then it won’t reload the modified animation.
You may want to work on the sprite instead:
```javascript
sprite.on('animationrepeat-blink', function (anim, frame, repeatCount, gameObject) {
gameObject.setRepeatDelay(Phaser.Math.RND.integerInRange(2000, 6000));
});
```
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### Author:  [@kittykatattack](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/kittykatattack)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/random-animation-delays/7353/3 "2020-09-07T09:25:14Z")
Thanks @samme!
In your example, where does the `animationrepeat-blink` event come from?
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### Author:  [@samme](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/samme)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/random-animation-delays/7353/4 "2020-09-09T01:41:38Z")
It is the [SPRITE\_ANIMATION\_KEY\_REPEAT](https://photonstorm.github.io/phaser3-docs/Phaser.Animations.Events.html#event:SPRITE_ANIMATION_KEY_REPEAT) event.
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### Author:  [@kittykatattack](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/kittykatattack)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/random-animation-delays/7353/5 "2020-09-09T12:52:19Z")
@samme Ah, thank you!
I’ve also realised that 3.5 might solve this a little more neatly… I’ll test and report back 🙂