So I've just started messing with parallax scrolling and I think I nailed down horizontal movement but I feel that the vertical movement looks a bit weird.


Here's a gif of my game:



I just need help with on how I could fix this. Unless this is how is suppose to look and I'm just over thinking it.

To me that looks like the camera is basically set at a given height, and "rotates up" when you jump.

Maybe try having the layers towards the back move a lot less in y? So the mountains basically remain where they are, while the foreground moves as quickly as it does now.

Might be worth experimenting with, I agree that it looks somewhat weird.

Alright so I've been tinkering around and now I have this:



What do you think?

I think the parallax layers look much nicer.

I'm not sure I particularly like the scale of the world and the scale of the jump, but that is up to your game's look and feel.

I think the parallax layers look much nicer.

I'm not sure I particularly like the scale of the world and the scale of the jump, but that is up to your game's look and feel.

Yeah it is a bit excessive so I've changed it a it here:

The second image makes me think the nearest layer of rocks must be really close to the camera. If that's the idea, then it's success!

Yep that's the goal!