Legacy GM Best way to implement animated backgrounds

[TheNegroShoddy]

I was wondering what is the best way to implement an animated background. My background is quite bigger than a normal sprite, so I'm not sure whether it would be best to simply create an object with very low depth and animate normally as a sprite or use it as a background resource(s).
http://www.mediafire.com/view/80xrfb4noptlwaa/new_background1_GIF.gif

 

[curato]

GM 2 has some abilities to just drop sprite animation in but in GM 1.4 you make just need to an object with the sprite set the animation speed in the create event. I am not sure how else to do that with GM 1.4.

 

[TheNegroShoddy]

GM 2 has some abilities to just drop sprite animation in but in GM 1.4 you make just need to an object with the sprite set the animation speed in the create event. I am not sure how else to do that with GM 1.4.

Okay, I do have a concern. Could animating a background this size cause the frame rate to drop?

 

[curato]

Yes if you are doing a large one it could depending on what else is going on. Breaking that up in to smaller moving parts would likely help a lot if you are having issues with one big picture.

 

[TheNegroShoddy]

Yes if you are doing a large one it could depending on what else is going on. Breaking that up in to smaller moving parts would likely help a lot if you are having issues with one big picture.

That sounds like a good solution, I'll try that. Thanks