Scrolling background (no parallax) in top down shooter

morciba

Hi everyone. I'm new in Godot so be patient please.

I try to make scrolling background in top down shooter. It should look like scrolling land in RiverRaid game.

I made a Scene: Area2D -> Sprite -> StaticBody2D -> CollisionPolygon2D To scroll it down i'am using: set_pos(Vector2(0, get_pos().y + speed * delta))

It works, but I want to ask if there is better way to accomplish it.

Ross

If it's just a background you only need a Sprite. Area2D and StaticBody2D are for collisions.

You can also use translate(vect) or global_translate(vect) instead of set_pos(get_pos() + vect).

morciba

Thanks. I'll try it. Is it more efficient?

Kiori

Ross

It's probably a teeny tiny bit more efficient to use translate(). Anything you can use the built-in (C++) functions for will be much faster than doing it yourself in GDScript. But honestly this is trivial. Maybe if you did a few hundred of these it would matter. It's just a little faster to write and easier to read.