Questions tagged [parallax-scrolling]
An illusion technique for scrolling backgrounds which allows for a finer simulation of depth in 2D graphics.
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How do I ignore 1 axis on vector 3 reset to 0,0,0?
coding noob 3D artist here. I'm trying to create a scrolling parallax background with 3D objects, I have it set so that when it scrolls off screen, it resets it's position off screen on the opposite ...
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How can I implement an infinite parallax background like in Slither.io?
I am trying to replicate the endless scrolling of slither.io but, I can't figure out how to implement it. Since the players can move to any direction and the background needs to be available during ...
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Changing texture offset in unity by script
I am trying to change texture offset in a material by a script to create a parallax effect, but it doesn't move a bit no matter what I am trying. Any tips for this case? Or am I missing something?
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Move Camera is an order so that the background doesn't move fast
I have created a game where I am moving my player on a platform. The car moves fine on the platform and the camera follows the car as well. My problem is that I wanted my background to move slowly. I ...
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Make zoomable Camera and Environment follow player smoothly
I am making a 2D side-scroller racing game. The Player is a car that moves on a 2D terrain already created. The Camera follows the Player. I also wanted to created more depth by making the background ...
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2D Parallax scrolling through GLSL shader
I currently switched from LWJGL to LibGDX. In LWJGL I had a shader to do parallax scrolling by simply adding an offset to the texture coordinates and it worked fine, the texture repeated itself when ...
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How can I make the background of my game move following my player?
I'm starting with Libgdx and I would like to make my ParallaxBackground move following my player. I am using a TiledMap along with Scene2d, and have the camera follow the sprite of my player. I'm ...
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How to reproduce this (parallax?) effect?
I'm wondering how to imitate the camera movement like in the gif below. It´s from a Android game.
This game for example (via GIPHY)
Actually, I am not sure if this can be called a parallax effect, ...
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Unity TopDown parallax effect only working in three of four directions
I'm a hobbyist at programming so I'm sure I'm missing something very simple:
Basically I have a script that has a method for repositioning a 3x3 grid of tiles every time the player goes out of the ...
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How to get smooth parallax in a wrap-around world
I'm working on a multiplayer space shooter a-la Star Control melee. The background of the game consists of several layers of tiles sprites making up a parallax effect of clouds and stars. The player ...
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How to make a Infinite Verticle Scrolling Background in Pygame
Is there anyone who knows how to create an infinite verticle scrolling background in pygame?
Your help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance!
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What is differential scrolling?
I have seen the term a few times (e.g. here). I tried looking it up but did not find much information. I thought it would be something like parallax-scrolling, but I have seen suggestions otherwise (e....
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Gyroscope Parallax Effect In Unity
I want to make a parallax effect in Unity 3D with gyroscope like the one on this site:
http://matthew.wagerfield.com/parallax/
I found an asset, but it is too expensive.
So I need a script which I ...
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Scrolling Background - smoothest way
I am trying to find the best solution for drawing a scrolling background in my app in Java. For now, I have two images and I move them by 1x and put it's thread to sleep for hmm, 5ms.
The problem is ...
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2D Parallax Scrolling
I'm trying to implement parallax scrolling and have a partially working equation (from a book I've read) but it doesn't fully align to the screen. I also want to stick purely to integer maths. I've ...
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2D Infinite Runner : how to manage background layers?
First of all, sorry for this post, I guess this already has been discussed. I browsed stackexchange and the web but I couldn't seem to find a clear information for my case, with always mixed results.
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How to make a scrolling background in Delphi with FireMonkey?
I'm making a scrolling background game alike classic Mario 2D games.
How do I make a scrolling background in Delphi XE7 using FireMonkey?
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2d parallax edges
I'm writing a mini 2d game, the scene background is based on two images with parallax effect.
I want the right edge of both images, finish at the same time matching the right edge of the canvas. But ...
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Mobile Game Development: Supporting Multiple Screen Resolution for iOS
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When designing the graphics of the game (e.g. for iPhone): What is the resolution I should base it upon? Is it the smaller resolution (iPhone4 screen resolution) so that I could scale it ...
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Parallax effect for layers in Unity2D
I have a simple game scene where i have put a number of images. I combined these images into layers (SortinLayer, to be specific). So now I have 3 layers. I have read a few tutorials, but in them was ...
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Layers with parallax in a game with zoom out by a transformation matrix
I'm trying to implement a parallax rendering to my multi layered backgrounds. It's a classic 2d fighting game like The King of Fighters and Street Fighter.
It may have a stage composed by 5 layers.
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How do I do 2D z-index parallax in Unity3d? [closed]
I am new to unity3d and want to develop a simple game like crazy cabie. I have to implement a z-index parallax for moving sprites towards the player and generating new sprite at the farthest z-index.
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How do I make a scrolling background out of a sequence of images?
I am new to AndEngine and trying to code a basic sidescroller game using the ParallaxLayer class from this example. (I followed the example and it works.)
How ...
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How should matrix-based Parallax Scrolling work?
The question is at the end, as it requires a bit of context.
I'm not sure if my understanding, my code, or LibGDX's ParallaxCamera is wrong.
LibGDX's ...
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libgdx : Scrolling background from spritesheet causes lag when sprite is repositioned... am I doing something wrong? [duplicate]
So, I use a sprite from a spritesheet to draw the background and repeat it. (I am drawing it twice) However, the moment that the background is re-positioned to make it look infinite, it causes a lag.
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How can I optimize a parallax effect consisting of multiple transparent layers?
I have a parallax effect in MonoGame consisting of multiple semi-transparent layers of textures. The effect is simple, but rendering multiple transparent layers on top of each other is rather slow. ...
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Unproject considering parallax depth
How can I take screen coordinates (or alternatively world coordinates on the 'primary' parallax plane) and find out what world coordinates they translate into when taking parallax depth into account?
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Fine-tuning parallaxing objects in 2D games
I'm making a 2D platformer game and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to fine-tune parallaxing objects in-game quickly enough. Problem is I don't even know how to make it faster, so I'm ...
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Trouble with a modified parallax scrolling concept
I have a set of layers (each of them being a list of items) moving with different speeds as I mentioned here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18962019/270197. Layers back in the scene move with slower ...
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Approaches to 2D Parallax
In a 2D scrolling platformer, what is the most efficient way or knowing which things with parallax depth should be drawn?
The approach below describes trying to know which things are nearby so they ...
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Parallax Scrolling Road-2D [duplicate]
I'm working on a racing game which will have a top view from the back camera. The image below displays a similar example. I am confused about how to achieve the movement of the road if parallax ...
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Parallax scrolling with 2D camera [duplicate]
I'm developing a 2D Platform game, I have a 2D camera, some backgrounds, and everything is working good. Now I want to implement parallax scrolling to give the illusion of depth in my game, but i can'...
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How to get position of CCSprite added to CCParallaxNode?
I have a CCparallaxNodeExtras that scrolls infinite (following the space game tutorial). I added as a child a CCSprite made of other CCSprite, like this:
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Gap in parallaxing background loop
The bug here is that my background kind of offset a bit itself from where it should draw and so I have this line. I have some troubles understanding why I get this bug when I set a speed that is ...
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Parallax background positions when jumping
I am currently building my first Mobile game. The concept is pretty simple, it's a sideways scroller.
I have implemented 5 layers to act as parallax scrolling, these are working quite well for ...
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How do I implement an AutoParallax Background in AndEngine GLES1?
I'm using AndEngine GLES1. In my game, I use AnalogOnScreenControl to move a sprite and when it moves vertically, the background image also moves vertically. I want to do something like this: that is ...
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How do I create a scrollableparallax background in AndEngine GLES1 [duplicate]
In my game I want my background to move side by side as the player moves on screen in AndEngine. I moved my sprite using analogScreenControl. I am using AndEngine GLES1. i don't want to move my ...
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Showing Parallax entity and AutoParallax entity on same scene in AndEngine
How do I create both a parallax background and an autoparallax background in the same scene using andengine?
The problem is, I want one entity to move at a constant speed regardless of the camera's ...
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How do I visualize parallax layers in a level editor?
I'm making a 2D game in Unity, but this would apply to any 2D game engine.
If I implement multiplane parallax with orthographic cameras, it is difficult to lay out the background layer's sprites and ...
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How do I make camera follow the player within some bounds?
I am creating a simple ambient/explorer platformer. Because I want the player to only be able to see a new area once they have reached it, I decided to split up the world in rooms.
To not make things ...
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How should I implement parallax scrolling with pan and zoom in HTML5?
I'm writing a planetary motion simulator with the HTML5 canvas element and I want to put one or more layers of stars in the background. The user can click and drag the screen to navigate around the ...
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To stop Spite animation scrolling along the background in openGL ES
After using the endless road algorithm as described here, I also implemented the scrolling of walls along with it.
I have the walk animation of the person which is stationed at the center of the ...
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Scrolling background stops after awhile? [closed]
Can anyone tell me where my maths is wrong please, it stops scrolling after awhile.
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Parallax Background Size
If I have three scrolling/continuous parallax backgrounds, what should be the ideal size (width/height) of the background images assuming I am going to support all devices including the new iPad?
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Road parallax background
I am a beginner in game development. I want to create a parallax background that merges at the front and expands at the bottom. I'm sure there is a way to do this, but I'm missing something. My ...
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Parallax Scrolling - Layers not preserving their relational positions
I've created a little 2D game engine with parallax scrolling and something has been bugging me for some time.
Layers / objects set at a different depths / z orders don't preserve their position ...
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How can I scroll sprites when swiping using Cocos2D?
I'm adding 3 sprites (layers) to CCParallaxNode:
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Question About An Implementation Of Parallax Scrolling In C++/SDL/OpenGL
I been working in a project with a team for a Software Engineering class and we think that using the parallax scrolling will help our game to look really nice but we are not really sure if our idea ...
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How can I support scrolling when using batched rendering for my tiles?
I have tiled map 100*75 and tiles are 32*32 pixel.I want to use batching for performance .I don't figure it out , because of my game needs scrolling and every frame i draw 22*16 tiles (my screen is 20*...
