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Activation regions

PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:14 pm
by Troodon
I don't want to sound a completely idiot, but what are the activation regions? I have used game editor for two months and I had never need them. :oops:

PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:25 pm
by Novice
They are regions that divide your game into managable loading chuncks, they are activated when they intersect with the view. For ex. you can put every level in a diferent activation region and when the view intersects with it it loads that region.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:50 pm
by Troodon
Thanks.
Er...Is the game more rapid with activation region or without them?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:25 pm
by Game A Gogo
the game is more rapid, cause it load less.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:34 pm
by Troodon
Thank you very much!Now I will start to use activation regions.Oh yes...the actors, wich are in activation region, but not in view...are their events enable?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:04 pm
by makslane
If the region intersect the view and the actor has the option "Receive events even if out of vision" set to Yes, the actor will receive events.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:20 pm
by Troodon
But when the view is not intersecting with region, regions actors are not receiving events?
What about the activation events?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:34 pm
by makslane
If your have an actor A, and this actor are not in view and your activation regions not intersect the view, the actor A will be destroyed, so, don't will receive more events nor take space into memory.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:37 pm
by Troodon
I see...Thanks!

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:21 pm
by duracel92
I disagree, im making an rpg game atm, and when i insert those regions the game takes roughly and extra 6 seconds to load....

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:31 pm
by makslane
Can you send me the two executables with and without activation regions?