the parallax effect is a great effect to give depth and visual interest to your 2d games. if you set a simple parallax into your level however, you will face critical issues:

• things start to move to places they should not be, messing up your long hours of level design

• performance drops down as levels grow up

• and little or no control per actor

so we created this complex yet simple to use blueprint that addresses these issues.

watch demo and tutorial here

Smart Parallax🥇

smart parallax uses user defined actor layers and manages these actors smartly. utilizing things like:

• update only when player moves

• having a movement step and tick limit.

• update actors that are within the parallax bounds 🚀

• auto detect what should be in the foreground and what should be in the background

• adjust the movement amount for each actor based on custom distance checks

• support for Z and X axis parallax

• support for unlimited amount of layers

• easily adjustable parallax values globally or per layer

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