I don't really know much about sprites, but if I was going to do it I would do it on planes and scroll the texture. I'm sure there is another (probably better
) way of doing it, but try looking at:
` ASSIGNING SOME VARIABLES
DW = DESKTOP WIDTH()
DH = DESKTOP HEIGHT()
DD = SCREEN DEPTH()
WW = 640
WH = 480
RootDir$ = "C:\Test\"
` SETTING UP THE WINDOW DISPLAY
SET WINDOW ON
SET DISPLAY MODE WW,WH,DD, 0
SET WINDOW POSITION DW/2-320, DH/2-240
SET WINDOW TITLE "Parallax Background"
` SETTING UP CAMERA POSITION AND REFRESH RATE
SYNC ON
SYNC RATE 60
AUTOCAM OFF
POSITION CAMERA 0,0, -400
POINT CAMERA 0,0,0
` LOADS PICTURES AND CREATES THE OBJECT THE PICTURES WILL BE ON
FOR LoadBG= 1 TO 4
MAKE OBJECT PLANE LoadBG, WW, WH
LOAD IMAGE RootDir$ + "BackGround" + Str$(LoadBG) + ".png", LoadBG
TEXTURE OBJECT LoadBG, LoadBG
SET OBJECT TRANSPARENCY LoadBG,1
SET OBJECT LIGHT LoadBG, 0
POSITION OBJECT LoadBG, 0,0,-0.1 - LoadBG
NEXT LoadBG
` MAIN LOOP!
DO
FOR ParalaxBG = 2 to 4
SCROLL OBJECT TEXTURE ParalaxBG, -ParalaxBG*0.0008 * (KEYSTATE(30) - KEYSTATE(32)),0.0
NEXT ParalaxBG
SYNC
LOOP
`THE END :(
END
I also attached the pictures used in this example. Nothing fancy, just some quickly(poorly) drawn backgrounds.
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