Like, put a big plane in the background and put a tiled image on it or something?

Unity Engine
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Another simple thing I’m trying to do, another headache. Everything with Unity is so complicated!!!

For my 2D sidescroller, I need a couple of background images that will just repeat as they scroll by. The natural way to do this, in my little mind, would be to stretch a plane across the background, load it up with a picture and tell it to tile. I know there are other complications considering I’m using a perspective camera and the distance and scale required, but I’ve figured out that stuff already when I made a background out of a single sprite. But time to move on, I need this thing to tile so I can start putting together an actual scene.

So pretty much any setting I tried to use for my Mesh Renderer “Shader” wouldnt allow me to tile. I would edit it, and the settings would just go right back to 1. But then I read online to use Transparent/Diffuse. Well that made my plane black so I figured out to add a light. Only to reveal THIS…

I know Unity is all better and stuff, but I’m a hair from crawling back to Game Maker as MY GOD everything was so much simpler but so limiting.

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You wouldn’t use transparent/diffuse unless you’re using lighting; unlit/transparent would be more performant. Also there’s no need to use the plane object, which has excessive triangles for this (use a quad instead), and don’t use a collider unless you actually need it to collide with something. Change the texture to have a wrap mode of repeat instead of clamp.

–Eric

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Ah, unlit transparent! Also I could have swore I had already selected repeat, I think I forgot when I deleted it all and tried it again using sprite default.

Thank you!