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[Kevin]

Is there a relatively easy way in GM8 to have instances reset to their default positions in a room when not inside the view?

I'm working on an explorationy game that uses a single large room divided into smaller sub-rooms via views. Essentially, one view (view[0]) jumps around the map as the player moves to give the illusion that there are various rooms.

I'd like to have all instances of, say, the enemy object (ob_enemy) revert to their initial settings and positions as the view moves. Like, if you're in room-a, the view is static at given coordinates. If the player moves outside the right-boundary of the view, say, the view jumps 200 pixels to the right to make it seem as though the player has moved into room-b. When this happens, I want all of the enemies in room-a to revert to their initial state and then deactivate, while the enemies in room-b activate and the game continues. If the player moves back into room-a, the view goes back to room-a's coordinates and those enemies reactivate.

This is very poorly and confusingly explained. If anyone has any idea what I'm trying to say, advice would be so, so much appreciated. If no one can decipher it, I'll try to provide more details.

[fraxcell]

Something like this?

Code:

//check if player is outside the view
if obj_player.x<view_xview[0] || obj_player.x>view_xview[0]+view_wview[0]
|| obj_player.y<view_yview[0] || obj_player.y>view_yview[0]+view_hview[0]
{
   //move enemies to original position if they are in the view
   with (ob_enemy){
      if collision_rectangle(view_xview[0],view_yview[0],view_xview[0]+view_wview[0],view_yview[0]+view_hview[0],self,false,false)
      { x=xstart; y=ystart; }
   }

   //deactivate instances in the previous "room"
   instance_deactivate_region(view_xview[0],view_yview[0],view_wview[0],view_hview[0],true,true

//now you move to the next "room"
)
}

I haven't checked it, but theoretically it should work, if I understand what you were trying to say. You'd also have to activate instances in the new room, which I didn't include, but it's the same concept as deactivating the ones in the old room.

[Kevin]

Awesome. I'll be trying this out promptly. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks so much!

Edit: That makes so much sense it's embarrassing. Thank you a million times. <3