How to implement a backdrop in Defold

[Stale]

The next thing I want to implement is a parallax background for my game, I do know how to implement the parallax but I’m unsure of how to set a sprite as the background without resorting to another gui element, I did find some documentation about this, but its was a 2018 build of defold so I was usure how viable it is in the current release

[Alex_8BitSkull]

Have you tried?

Difficult to comment on the viability of what you refer to without any information. Generally Defold is really stable and backwards compatible.

[Stale]

The method shown requires a ‘platformer_creation_kit’ which either doesn’t exist in the current build, or I didn’t pick it when making my game (I don’t remember I started making it a year ago) + It talks about a sprite4 component which I cannot find on the api docs

[Alex_8BitSkull]

@Stale

platformer_creation_kit

Looks like that doesn’t exist anymore.

Here’s a video tutorial:

Defold Vignette 1 - Implementing Parallax

A discussion on parallax backgrounds:

How to get scrolling tiled background image?

I’d like to make parallax background but what I see in the tutorial section about parallax is more like faux parallax effect. It’s not showing how the majority of games use the parallax background (scrolling tiled image). Godot has nodes dedicated to having a parallax background - ParallaxBackground>ParallaxLayer>sprite. Gamemaker has a checkbox for a sprite to have it tile horizontally/ vertically. I’d like to know how to get that in Defold.

Parallax with a shader:

Example for parallax background with shader

Thanks to @Pkeod initial shader I put together a neat example for parallax scrolling background with shader and thanks to input from @Mathias_Westerdahl, the background doesn’t have to be a power of 2. Get it HERE. P.S. There’s plenty of comments for parallax layer script and I still don’t understand how to set up a camera (this one projects more than it should and the picture is vertically squeezed).

[britzl]

I have a background/parallax effect in this sample game:

DEMO: Throw a Crow 0.1
CODE: https://github.com/britzl/throwacrow/tree/improved