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Parallax Background Layers

3 min Art & Sprites

Generate a scene as separate scrolling depth layers — sky, midground, foreground — with the front layers cut out on transparency, ready for a parallax background. Powered by AnnoMotion AI.

Before you start
A description of one scene.
What you end up with
One PNG per depth layer, with the front layers on transparency.

Step by step

  1. Describe the scene

    Describe it as one picture — "a misty pine forest at dawn". The tool handles separating it into depths.

  2. Style and layer count

    More layers give smoother parallax and cost more. Three or four is plenty for most side-scrollers.

  3. Optional seed

    Keep the seed to generate a second scene in the same visual world.

Worth knowing

  • Scroll the back layer slowest and the front fastest. If the effect looks wrong, it is almost always the speed ratios rather than the art.

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