I was thinking, is there a way to make a side scroller without those stupid side borders? So far all I've come up with is loading 1/4th of the texture then as it got closer load 1/2 then 3/4th then the whole texture to give it enough room. It would be semi-complicated but would it work? I haven't had time to test anything yet.

That might work but the most easy way is to make the background bigger.

best-games-ever wrote:

That might work but the most easy way is to make the background bigger.

I'm talking about items loading in on the edges of the screen as you run.

It's not easy to completely avoid problems at the edge of the screen with a scroller since Scratch will always want at least part of the sprite to be visible so at the point it first appears at the edge there is the risk a thin band suddenly appears.

If the backgrounds appear in a fixed order though you can potentially allow an overlap so the new sprite/costume is hidden until it is far enough on screen that the minimum amount Scratch insists on showing isn't a problem.

Hi, you can try with this method https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/176270121

Greets.

There was a method posted on here a while back about the edges of screens and using a set size block at the top of the loop and another at the bottom which would hide the 5 pixels of the sprite. It does work but in a project with many tiles using changing size this ended up laggy at times. You can do it with a costume as well.

I forget who posted this method with the set size, but it wasn't me. I tried with the costume change though. Works except the x position falls a bit, probably because I eyeballed 2x size on the costume.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/177117177/#player

Edit:
Fixed the big costume to 2x size, the x position does not lag behind anymore.

Start of script: set size to 200%
Then do placement stuff.
End of script: set size to 100%

Boom.