Render Cells and Tile Maps

Hello everybody!

I was hoping someone could shed some light on the subject of how render cells work in relation to tile maps.

If I recall correctly I saw a post that stated that tile maps aren't stored in memory like sprites, in that they essentially don't exist until they are actually on the screen, but I can't seem to find the thread any more.

Neither the manual, the tile maps blog entry, nor the render cells blog entry mention anything about it either.

So I guess my question is would tile maps benefit from using render cells?

tilemaps won't benefit from render cells, however they automatically uses collision cells to render what is needed only, sl in short, it is like they are using it as a default.

Okay, thanks Aphrodite!