Loading with the scene better than spawning?

Cap

Hey,

I got an interesting question: if I drag & drop all actors I need into the scene in GameSalad, I don't have to spawn them during the game, right?
If I hide them out of view and move them into the game just when needed, it should be better performance-wise than spawning & destroying...
If I don't need them for a while, I could hide them again. Is it necessary to make them invisible or opaque or is it enough to just place them out of camera view?

Thanks!

JCFord

Yes that's what I do load th in the scene off screen and just move them in and out as needed. No need to male them invisible as long as they are out of the camera view.

tubgaming

I have had to adjust some of my actors alpha when they are just out of view because they can be seen when the screen orientation rotates. Just something to keep in mind.

Cap

At first: thanks for your answers!

tubgaming said:
I have had to adjust some of my actors alpha when they are just out of view because they can be seen when the screen orientation rotates. Just something to keep in mind.

Ah, interesting. So you adjust the alpha value.
I remember that I did some 3D in RealBasic many years ago. Every object not in camera view was set to invisible (frustum culling) so it didn't burden memory. In GameSalad it doesn't matter if an actor is offset or not or set to visible or not, it will burden memory until it's destroyed, right?

Thanks!

Cap

Hm. Is there a limit on how many actors I can load with the scene?