#COOL RPG MAKER PARALLAX BACKGROUND FULL#

#COOL RPG MAKER PARALLAX BACKGROUND FULL#

That said, I think most people will not get any use out of going full parallax. In combination, you can get a lot of wow with little memory cost by using parallax for key, unique locations, and spending a little extra love on those tiles for the rest of the game. If you're doing almost everything unique, tiles will actually get in your way and give you no benefit. Tiles are fantastic for keeping the file size smaller, or being able to reuse the same thing in a different way, but at some point and on some level you will always be able to see the repetition.

Parallax mapping allows for more control at the cost of more memory usage, but if you're not making good use of that higher amount of control or you can't afford it taking that much space on disk, then there's not anything gained by using it. If you've got very different looking locations, a small amount of them, or if the thing being mapped isn't big, then it could be beneficial to do Parallax maps. If you've got a lot of locations, if your maps are large, or if the placement is more unique than the content, tiles is generally the way to go. They're both beneficial in opposite situations, and can work together really well.

Parallax vs tiles is, to me, one of those diminishing returns things.

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