Generating random levels/stages

Hi, working on my first ever map here.
I've been reading tutorials and experimenting on my own.. however, I cannot find out how to do this:

Generating a random stage of the map when the game starts AND when a unit enters a waygate.
All of the Area of Ice Escape maps do this.
What this means is that there are several stages to the map, and when the game commences, a random stage is selected and played.
When the hero reaches the end waygate another random stage is selected and played.

Edit: I've thought about it and decided on using a region instead of a waygate at the end of the stage. Its probably easier this way (well for me thats the only way I can think of :P)



Note: Map is in another language, name in Warcraft custom game list as "...." or something similar.

Is this a singleplayer game, or do you need to be able to select a different random stage for different players at different times?

It will be a multiplayer game.
And if one person reaches the end, everyone will advance to the next random stage simultaneously.

Oh, ok, then it's simple. Keep an array of all stages and an integer variable with the number of stages stored in it. Then, pick a random value between 1 and the number of stages and pick that stage; remove it from the array and store the last stage in it's place, then decrease the integer variable by one. Whenever a new stage needs to be picked, repeat the process. This will eventually empty your array, when that happens, end the game (you can also end it sooner, if you have a time limit or a stage limit). If this is supposed to go on forever and stages can be picked more than once, simply skip the step where you remove the stages from the array.

Oooo that sounds complicated ><
but Ill give it a go.

The game will not go on forever or repeat any of the stages.
Once the players have passed all of the stages, the game will end.
Actually now that I think about it, Id like something like a "final stage" once the players have successfully completed all the stages.
But Ill concentrate on figuring out how to do the random stages first :P

Randomly generating new levels is incredibly complicated. I've tried something like this before and I came up with a pathfinding algorithim which worked; but took something like 45 seconds to generate a 64x64 map; which was just unacceptable. I know there are faster ways to do it; but the criteria really adds up. I had decided to segmentalize "compartments" and combine them amorphically; but it never came to fruition.

However; there's a pathfinding/generating algorithim somewhere in the script section which is atleast a basis to start with.

That's not what he wants, he'll pre-create the stages, and simply make them start in a random order, which is very easy.

Yup what Feroc1ty said.
Ill have the stages pre-made, I just want them in a random order.
I also want the camera to be bound to just the stage.
Is this done with regions or what?

Create rects for each stage, and when the specific stage is selected there is a function call that will make the camera bound to the specific rect.

Thanks Ill try that