The Perfect Pixel Art Parallax Tutorial [and Unity script!]

Heya Pals! This is another monster tutorial featuring both art and code. I really love the parallax effect, so it was a lot of fun breaking down the process for you.

Titles:
00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - What Is Parallax?
07:44 - Infinite Scrolling
09:15 - Making Parallax Backgrounds
18:35 - Adding Middleground Layers
23:28 - Detailing the Sprites
30:00 - Ground Detail
31:51 - Foreground Layer
33:04 - Writing the Parallax Script
43:09 - Calculating the Parallax Value
48:10 - Outro

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Later, pals!

[nobodyinparticular]

Dude, your tutorials are the best thing I’ve seen on game development. I’ve learned so much from just this one video. Thank you so much for giving this away for free. It is top notch quality instructional videos.

[polter]

Your videos have helped me improve more than any other resource I've come across. Thank you!

[erengazioglu]

Beautiful video, I especially like it when you explain not only the look of things but also the natural logic behind the system itself. Thanks as always for great content!

[Distortion]

I love this video. I already knew how to do horizontal parallax, but still learned something thanks to the depth you went into. Never knew what the clipping plane did, and didn't know about calculating the camera size based off PPU. Thanks man.

[doiroco]

Nice to see my name throught the entire video... Great vid as always!!

[wirs]

One of the things that made me into pixel arts is your videos. It's really incredible how you made these videos for us. I hope one day i can give you my improvement by watching your videos. Much much thanks!

[ThePixelExpedition]

Yes! I was really hoping you'd make a tutorial on this! I absolutely love parallax in games! :)

[pauliusgruodis]

I upvote your videos before even watching because I know you won't fail to deliver. This kind of quality content deserves more views.

[dirtywhitellama]

Your enthusiasm and enjoyment of the process is so fun to watch :D

[Pablito_Dev]

Hey Adam, what a great tutorial. The explanation of how it works and how you got all the values it's amazing . We are not just simple copying and pasting, we are learning how this works under the hood . Thanks a lot!

[tylerheenan]

Perfect! To add to this, you can set repeatable textures in the inspector/game hierarchy. Meshtype - > Full Rect, Wrap mode - > Repeat + Sprite Renderer Tile Mode -> Continuous, Draw Mode - > Tiled, Size - > x/y.

Some tutorials do spawning for repeatable which might be necessary depending on your game but for me wrap mode was fine.

[Wesz]

Just stumbled on your channel and already followed the first couple of videos. Just want to say that this is some quality stuff. I followed some courses but they don't add much more than "how to make a tree", no theoretical background that give you some true understanding. Thanks for this. Will become a Patron for sure.

[giratinaMagicRush]

Thank you so much for explaining the theory behind the parallax values and how to implement them efficiently without hard coding numbers till its right. <3

[LordMobias]

Oh you did a tutorial on background Parallax, thanks so much Adam I was really looking forward to this :D

[stefan]

i really enjoy the indepth scientific/mathematical explanation at the beginning :)

[explorer]

I’m new to pixel art and all your videos are so fun and easy to understand 😭 I could also listen to your voice for hours 😭

[Ricardordz]

Dude you're amazing, thanks for the video, watched it all the way through, I loved the way you explained step by step sparing no detail, thank you soo much

[BeingFriends]

Parallax is literally one of my favorite visual phenomenons )yes I give it that much praise)! And in games it does such an incredible job making a flat world feel alive! Loving these longer form videos!

[franklinlx]

Respect... You're eloquent and knowledgeable, with the right mix of charisma and modesty. I can see the quality in everything you do.

[LassiY]

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