Problem with Parallax

[shadamar]

So I have a parallax background that I made and It is the right size and everything. But when I play my game the tiles that I placed on the parallax background move slower than the background so trees and stuff are look like they are sliding in the direction I am walking....any ideas on how to fix this?

 

[NunoAle]

In the map propreties, did you check the loop background thingy?

 

[shadamar]

no, its on no loop at all and neither of the checkboxs are checked except show in editor.

 

[NunoAle]

You need to chose the Loop Horizontally and Loop Vertically, so when the character walks, the picture starts at the beggining again (when the limit is crossed). The auto-scroll is used for when it scrolls alone (like, for example, a set of clouds moving without the player movement).

 

[shadamar]

Thats not what I am looking for. I made the background for my map (grass water etc) using gimp and imported it to serve as the background the character walks on. Then tiled the trees and stuff. I want the character to be able to move on the background as if it were a regular map, not to stay in the same place. However when I run the game. The tiled part of the map moves slower that the parallax background so it looks as if the tiles are sliding around in the parallax map. When I check the vertical and horizontal loop, the parallax doesn't move at all. I want it to move, just at the same speed as the tiles...

 

[NunoAle]

Sorry mate, I have no ideas... I've never tried something like that...

 

[shadamar]

its ok. Thanks for trying to help.

 

[Gruuberhans]

The only way you can prevent the backgrounds from looping is if you make each map 20x15 tiles big. The backgrounds will always move on bigger maps, which is a good feature.

I'm guessing you were trying to make the background look like the ground?
I suggest you'd rather just split your ground texture into parts, and copy it into a tileset.