Auto-Scrolling Background?

[xhunterko]

I'm trying to put a little more life in my shooter by putting in an auto scrolling background. I have no idea how haxeflixel would handle this. Photonstorm did a lovely plug in class that did the job back when it was in action script 3, so I was hoping it'd be ported over. It appears, unless I've not found it yet, that it has not.

So, how do I get a background to scroll automatically? Like in the old shmup games.

[Gama11]

Yeah, that class has not been ported afaik, but I think FlxBackdrop is fairly similar.

[xhunterko]

I did try FlxBackdrop. But I didn't get that working either.

[Gama11]

Seems pretty straightforward, what exactly did you struggle with?

package;

import flixel.addons.display.FlxBackdrop;

import flixel.system.FlxAssets;

import flixel.FlxState;

class PlayState extends FlxState

{

var backdrop:FlxBackdrop;

override public function create() 

{

add(backdrop = new FlxBackdrop(GraphicLogo));

backdrop.velocity.set(100, 100);

}

}

[xhunterko]

Most probably the reason is that I'm an idiot and don't normally see things pretty straightforward from documentation. I was setting it up via like this:

BackWaterDrop = new FlxBackdrop("assets/Water.png", 0.80, 0.80, true, true);        
add(BackWaterDrop);

So of course, it wouldn't work.

Thank you sir!

On Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:07:51 PM UTC-6, Gama11 wrote:

Seems pretty straightforward, what exactly did you struggle with?

package;

import flixel.addons.display.FlxBackdrop;

import flixel.system.FlxAssets;

import flixel.FlxState;

class PlayState extends FlxState

{

var backdrop:FlxBackdrop;

override public function create() 

{

add(backdrop = new FlxBackdrop(GraphicLogo));

backdrop.velocity.set(100, 100);

}

}

On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:55:18 PM UTC+1, xhunterko wrote:

[Gama11]

That should still work though, just not move?