# Parallax Effect **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 16, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847 "2003-07-16T23:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ess355](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Ess355](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ess355)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/1 "2003-07-16T23:33:36Z")
Hi Is it possible to create a “parallax effect” using flash? Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/2 "2003-07-16T23:35:01Z")
Uh… what is a parallax effect? Got any examples because I have no clue :x ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/3 "2003-07-16T23:37:44Z")
Like when your on the motoway/highway and the closest object to you move the quickest away, and the further distant objects move less. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/4 "2003-07-16T23:41:07Z")
Hmm, alrightI know what you mean, but I have no clue how to do it in Flash 5 (I started and use Flash MX) It takes a lot of scripting though, im sure. Try this thread (i think sbeeners .zip file is a Flash 5 .fla file of something similar) … [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13659&highlight=starfield](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13659&highlight=starfield) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/5 "2003-07-17T00:01:05Z")
Thanks for the link, however, the file doesn’y load up on my flash 5. It says “unexpected error” when opening. Here is a user by the name of mariofan, on this thread here [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13133](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13133) with his/her signature doing the “parallax” thing I’d like. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/6 "2003-07-17T00:48:34Z")
I think mariofan’s footer is nothing more than Motion Tweens (not that these are bad). :-\ You’d only need to make those tweens longer or shorter depending on how distant the objects are. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/7 "2003-07-17T13:03:20Z")
Cheers thanks. I’m having trouble looping it, but if I get stuck I’ll come back for soe help. Thanks again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/8 "2003-07-17T16:10:31Z")
It is really just a trick of the eye 🙂 You create the symbol of the item you want to loop. Then you place 2 of them side by side like this… |-----clip1-----|-----clip2-----| then you scroll it over until all of clip2 is visible, then it should automatically loop back to frame 1 where clip1 is visible again. Maybe this will help… [http://www.lostinbeta.com/kirupa/scrollingField.html](http://www.lostinbeta.com/kirupa/scrollingField.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/9 "2003-07-18T01:30:00Z")
I kinda got you… and yes… its actually worked out well! 🙂 To some trial and error and calcualtions to get the timing and width. Alriiight, cheers. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parallax-effect/25847/10 "2003-07-18T02:47:31Z")
Glad you got it working 🙂