Cocos2D sprite/layer visible question

[CVinecombe]

When you set visible = FALSE for a sprite or layer, does this stop cocos2d from rendering the image?

I'm working on a tile based game where I always know how many map tiles will be on the screen at a time, but I wanted to implement my own simple clipping by turning everything to visible = FALSE and then only turning on visibility for sprites that are currently on the screen. Just curious if this would solve my problem.

If anyone has a better way to do some simple clipping like this I would appreciate it. Thanks!

[jmurff]

How To Make a Tile Based Game with Cocos2D | Ray Wenderlich

There is great example here. 2 part tutorial and someone even carried it further adding a 3rd part. makes it very clear.
HTH
-jim