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.

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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