Does making things that aren't on the screen not _visible decrease lag?

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Nov 4, 2007 6:14am facelesscoward 156 posts Flag Post	Specifically, is it beneficial at all to split the background of a platformer-style game into multiple pieces and make them visible as they get near the visible stage?

Nov 4, 2007 8:17am dazzer 724 posts Flag Post	I believe Flash does its own calculations automatically. I might be wrong though.

Nov 4, 2007 10:03am arcaneCoder 2354 posts Flag Post	_visible often helps, but invisible clips in flash often will still get rendered in some way. Its usually more beneficial to add/remove the clips as needed, or use a BitmapData object that gets updated. scrollRect is useful in some cases as well.

Nov 5, 2007 3:29am facelesscoward 156 posts Flag Post	Sweet, thanks.

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