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@@ -201,21 +201,23 @@ The parallax effect fakes a perspective by moving the positions of different tex
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understandably problematic if you have multiple cameras, because your textures can't be in two places at once!
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This is still achievable by cloning the parallax nodes into the second (or third or fourth)
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-:ref:`SubViewport<class_subviewport>`. Here's how it looks for a two player game:
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+:ref:`SubViewport<class_subviewport>`. Here's how a setup looks for a two player game:
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.. image:: img/2d_parallax_splitscreen.webp
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-Of course, now both backgrounds show in both SubViewports. What we want is for some nodes to be visible in one viewport
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-but not another. While technically possible, this is not a feature officially supported by Godot at the moment. There is
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-currently a proposal to make this much simpler, so please stay tuned.
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+Of course, now both backgrounds show in both SubViewports. What we want is for each parallax to only show in their
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+corresponding viewport. We can achieve this by doing the following:
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-As a workaround, you can do the following:
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+- Leave all parallax nodes at their default :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>` of 1.
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+- Set the first SubViewport's :ref:`canvas_cull_mask<class_viewport_property_canvas_cull_mask>` to only layers 1 and 2.
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+- Do the same for the second SubViewport but use layers 1 and 3.
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+- Give your parallax nodes in the first SubViewport a common parent and set its :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>` to 2.
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+- Do the same for the second SubViewport's parallax nodes, but use a layer of 3.
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-- Set the first SubViewport's :ref:`canvas_cull_mask<class_viewport_property_canvas_cull_mask>` to only layer 1, so it displays all nodes with a :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>` of layer 1.
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-- Set the second SubViewport's :ref:`canvas_cull_mask<class_viewport_property_canvas_cull_mask>` to only layer 2, so it displays all nodes with a :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>` of layer 2.
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-- Set the :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>` of every node you want to display in both viewports to both layers 1 and 2.
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-- Set the :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>` of the :ref:`Parallax2D<class_parallax2d>` node and all its descendants in the first :ref:`SubViewport<class_subviewport>` to layer 1.
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-- Set the :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>` of the :ref:`Parallax2D<class_parallax2d>` node and all its descendants in the second :ref:`SubViewport<class_subviewport>` to layer 2.
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+How does this work? If a canvas item has a :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>` that
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+doesn't match the SubViewport's :ref:`canvas_cull_mask<class_viewport_property_canvas_cull_mask>`, it will hide all
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+children, even if they do. We use this to our advantage, letting the SubViewports cut off rendering of parallax nodes
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+whose parent doesn't have a supported :ref:`visibility_layer<class_canvasitem_property_visibility_layer>`.
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Previewing in the editor
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Max Hilbrunner
