Lua Help with chance table

[beenii]

hi, i have table for chances, works fine but have error in console


lua:46: attempt to index a nil value
stack traceback:
[C]: in function '__index'

line 46:
local count = math.random(newtable[rand].min, newtable[rand].max)

code complete:

local config = {
    [1] = {chance = 4500, min = 1, max = 3},
    [2] = {chance = 1300, min = 4, max = 5},
    [3] = {chance = 500, min = 6, max = 8},
    [4] = {chance = 300, min = 9, max = 10},
    [5] = {chance = 100, min = 11, max = 13}
}
local a = 0
local newtable = {}
for i = 1, #config do
    a = a + config[i].chance
    for j = i, config[i].chance do
        table.insert(newtable, config[i])
    end
end
local rand = math.random(1,a)
local count = math.random(newtable[rand].min, newtable[rand].max)

 

[Infernum]

local config = {
    [1] = {chance = 4500, min = 1, max = 3},
    [2] = {chance = 1300, min = 4, max = 5},
    [3] = {chance = 500, min = 6, max = 8},
    [4] = {chance = 300, min = 9, max = 10},
    [5] = {chance = 100, min = 11, max = 13}
}

local totalChance = 0
for i = 1, #config do
    totalChance = totalChance + config[i].chance
end

local rand = math.random(totalChance)
local index = -1
for i = 1, #config do
    if rand <= config[i].chance then
        index = i
        break
    end
end

if index > -1 then
    local count = math.random(config[index].min, config[index].max)
    -- other stuff
end

 

[beenii]

attempt to index global 'newtable' (a nil value)

 

[Infernum]

repaste it
i tried to edit it before you caught it

 

[beenii]

repaste it
i tried to edit it before you caught it

I think it's working, I see that you created: function MonsternSpawn(position)


Could you take a look at my code and help me optimize it?