Hi Everyone,
After receiving a several questions about how the parallax horizontally scrolling star field works in my Operation : Pew Pew game, I decided to write a specific example of how it works, so someone doesn't have to filter through all the game logic to find the relevant star field parts.
This lead to me getting far too caught up in it and writing a second example that demonstrates how you can take a simple horizontally scrolling star field and expand it to follow the mouse position, creating the illusion of 3D space flight, or could be modified into an overhead directional game field.
The code is fully commented, you just have to put up with my sense of humour.
I hope this helps anyone looking to include a parallax scrolling star field in their game and gets more people into 68K programming.
'q' or a mouse click quits
+ or - changes the star speed
Simple horizontally scrolling parallax star field
DOWNLOAD C source code example HERE
View attachment horizontal.mov
Nifty 360 degree mouse following parallax star field
DOWNLOAD C source code example HERE
View attachment following.mov
DW/Dark Systems BBS
After receiving a several questions about how the parallax horizontally scrolling star field works in my Operation : Pew Pew game, I decided to write a specific example of how it works, so someone doesn't have to filter through all the game logic to find the relevant star field parts.
This lead to me getting far too caught up in it and writing a second example that demonstrates how you can take a simple horizontally scrolling star field and expand it to follow the mouse position, creating the illusion of 3D space flight, or could be modified into an overhead directional game field.
The code is fully commented, you just have to put up with my sense of humour.
I hope this helps anyone looking to include a parallax scrolling star field in their game and gets more people into 68K programming.
'q' or a mouse click quits
+ or - changes the star speed
Simple horizontally scrolling parallax star field
DOWNLOAD C source code example HERE
View attachment horizontal.mov
Nifty 360 degree mouse following parallax star field
DOWNLOAD C source code example HERE
View attachment following.mov
DW/Dark Systems BBS
