Help making background follow the camera

[Lunarium]

Hello, i'm working on a platformer and i'm trying to make it so that the background follows the camera while it's moving, so that in the game it looks like it's staying still. I already searched for tutorials on this but i didn't find anything exactly like what i was looking for.

 

[FoxyOfJungle]

You can use a background layer and then move it to the camera position:

// get camera horizontal position
var cam_x = camera_get_view_x(view_camera[0]);

// get layer id
var _layer_id = layer_get_id("layer_name");

// move layer with the camera x position
layer_x(_layer_id, cam_x);

For better performance, you can get the layer id in the Create Event and use the variable later in the Step Event.

 

[Deleted member 13992]

You can use layer_x and layer_y to offset the background layer as you see fit, including making it follow the camera! Definitely the simplest solution.

layer_x

EDIT: Whoops, beaten by a minute.