Activation regions

[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.

[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.

[Troodon]

Thanks.
Er...Is the game more rapid with activation region or without them?

[Game A Gogo]

the game is more rapid, cause it load less.

[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?

[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.

[Troodon]

But when the view is not intersecting with region, regions actors are not receiving events?
What about the activation events?

[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.

[Troodon]

I see...Thanks!

[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....

[makslane]

Can you send me the two executables with and without activation regions?