Hi guys.

So I'm relatively new to PD, and right now I'm trying to make a set number of discrete objects (20 of them) created along a spline path. In the cityscape1 subpatch in the patch below, I've set up an array to be randomly populated on a bang from the main patch screen. I'd like the objects in the gemlist in the cityscape1 subpatch to use that array, via spline_path, to generate each object's y-axis value. Obviously, how I've set it up is simply creating a straight line of evenly placed circles, rather than conforming to the path as set. What am I doing wrong, or is there another way to do this? Thanks.

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