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2D All the way! / Parallax scrolling shooter problem

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Yossarian
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Im trying to make a metal slug style shooter. I am wondering the best way to make the looping bitmap background scroll when the player moves near the edge of the screen, could i do it by moving the camera?

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Yossarian
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this needs to be done in DBC
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Pincho Paxton
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You could move the camera if you texture plains with the bitmap images.

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glint
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Just position plains so that they fill up the whole screen. (Use camera fov/trig to figure out how large the plains will be and how far from the camera.) Texture each with its bitmap.

When the player moves, don't bother moving the camera. Just scroll the textures on the plains at different rates, depending on how far away they are supposed to look.

If other elements in your game require camera movement to work, lock the above-described plains ("lock object on") to make sure that camera movement has no effect on them.

I am currently making a "2-d" shooter that uses 3-d material, and this is the plan I was using for parallax scrolling.
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