[SOLVED]activate/deactivate flicker

[kaerpaenen]

Hi! I have a quick question about a problem I'm having.

There's a fairly big world in the game I'm making, so I'd prefer to use the deactivating and regional activating for most of my objects, to optimize the performance. This works really nicely for my trees! But whenever I apply this to my enemyobjects, or some other objects, they flicker the whole time they are on the screen. Not sure what is causing this, any ideas?

 

[RangerX]

Its because they keep being activated and deactivated constantly.
Can you please show us all of you activation/deactivation code please?

 

[kaerpaenen]

This is the deactivation code on trees and enemyobjects

if x < camera_get_view_x(obj_camera.camera) || x > camera_get_view_width(obj_camera.camera) || y < camera_get_view_y(obj_camera.camera) || y > camera_get_view_height(obj_camera.camera)
    {
    instance_deactivate_object(id);
    }

This is the activation code on the player

instance_activate_region((camera_get_view_x(obj_camera.camera)-64),(camera_get_view_y(obj_camera.camera)-64),(camera_get_view_width(obj_camera.camera)+128),(camera_get_view_height(obj_camera.camera)+128),true);

The thing is, the trees don't flicker, but the enemies do.

 

[RangerX]

You activate a region that is larger than you screen while your objects there checking if only their X and Y position is not on cam.
This means when you see your object there but its X still is outside the cam, it will flicker from being activated and deactivated constantly.

Try using the "outside view" event on your objects and simply put this code inside:
instance_deactivate_object(id);

Then activate a region that is precisely the cam size.

 

[kaerpaenen]

You activate a region that is larger than you screen while your objects there checking if only their X and Y position is not on cam.
This means when you see your object there but its X still is outside the cam, it will flicker from being activated and deactivated constantly.

Try using the "outside view" event on your objects and simply put this code inside:
instance_deactivate_object(id);

Then activate a region that is precisely the cam size.

Thank you, this works. I swear I fiddled with Outside view sometime before, but I guess I did something wrong. Oh well, thanks again!