Can't get Parallax to work

[glacial geyser]

I've tried following a few tutorials and the documentation and I can't get parallax to work. I've tried both the parallaxBackground nodes and the newer Parallax2D nodes. It seems (from tutorials I've found), that all you really need to do is add a parallaxBackground with a parallaxLayer with a sprite2d (for each parallax layer), then just set the mirroring of the layer to twice that of the length of the sprite2d texture, and it should basically work.

Instead I get some very weird behaviour that I cannot for the life of me debug. Anyone have an idea as to what's going on?

[spark crag]

Make sure you position your background sprite so that it's top left corner is at 0,0

[glacial geyser]

you mean like this?

[frigid valley]

I am not sure if that changed on 4.3, but the texture needs to be wider than the viewport

[glacial geyser]

I can probably scale it? Then set the mirroring to account for that? I am also on the newest build so I can mess around with the parallax2d

for now I'm trying to zoom in my camera and I still can't quite get it working

[frigid valley]

I am not sure if scale works. You could just edit the image

also scale will messup your pixel art

[glacial geyser]

zoomed in. Good to know about scaling! Not too important now as I'm just familiarizing myself with the engine with some free itch.io assets

[frigid valley]

I think the problem here is the position of your assets

although I am not sure if that should matter

[glacial geyser]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8z4x6R7OSM&t=35s

^^ This here makes it look dead simple. I can't imagine what i'm doing wrong

mind you it's an older version

[spark crag]

Have you changed the position of your parallax layer node?

[glacial geyser]

it's at 0,0

[spark crag]

Oh you have camera zoom? That's probably the issue

I don't think the old parallax works with camera zoom

Actually... I don't think your mirror value matches the size of your background, does it?

[glacial geyser]

it did at one point, one of my screenshots has it as double as I was messing around

turning off the zoom, and I think you're onto somethnig

but I mean... that seems kinda weird, since the default camera is pretty darn big

[spark crag]

You shouldn't use camera zoom if you're trying to make your pixel art game bigger

Use the viewport size and the stretch mode settings

I think the new Parallax2D node might support camera zoom though, and you should be using that instead anyway, since you're on 4.3

[glacial geyser]

sure let's try it out

[spark crag]

Yeah, the old one doesn't support more than one mirror, so your screen is too big for your background

[glacial geyser]

so I'm wondering why the background is so far behind the camera

ok so setting the x offset to fit seems to get things working

I can hopefully figure some things out from here

thanks a ton!

[glacial geyser]

ok I have a good effect going. Now I just need it to follow the camera on the y-axis. maybe I'm going about this wrong, but I'd want the y-axis to not repeat (as this texture isn't built for that), and to remain in the viewport. Maybe easier to describe with another clip:

that seems to move it off the camera entirely

let's give that a shot

seems to be the same on beta2

what's the best way to do that? just zip the folder and send it here?

yea I thought that was weird

I have the sprites positions offset too

which feels wrong

ok, so why is my image still not having it's top left at the origin?

ok, everything seems to be working now after unzipping the project. I'm not sure what you did differently though

ah ok, so with the camera it's better practice to do that rather than zoom? pretty sure the brackeys tutorial used zoom, which is why I defaulted to that

makes sense

so it's better for coding in a certain effect then

and the project settings is the default

good to know

ok, I think I can mark this thread as resolved. Thanks for your time and help!

yep I think I did that already

oh yep, I can see the repeat now when playing

I have a region to the bottom right there where the texture ends. Is that what you're referring to? (This is after setting the repeat -> enabled). It goes away if I set the repeat on the parallax2d to 3

yea I guess these particular assets I found aren't quite big enough

I assume I can leave the y repeat to 0 as these textures aren't made for repeating vertically?

setting the repeat size to what you have gives me this effect

ok, that gets everything working

thanks again!

[glacial geyser]

Ok sorry to bug you again but I'm losing my mind here. I'm trying to redo what we went through to drill it in and the viewport isn't working.

nvm, stretch -> canvasitems was what I was missing