Parallax Background Generator for Pixel Art Games
Free parallax background generator. Layered pixel-art skies, mountains, cities and forests that tile seamlessly, as PNG layers, a GIF and Godot speeds.
0 layers, . Every layer repeats seamlessly left to right; the sky is opaque, the rest are transparent where empty.
How to use the Parallax Background Generator
- Pick a preset: day, sunset, night, dusk forest, snowy mountains or alien world.
- Set the size and number of layers, choose a city, ruins or no buildings, and tweak the colours.
- Press New variation until you like it; the preview scrolls each layer at its own speed.
- Download all layers as a ZIP, or the composed PNG, a scrolling GIF or the speeds file.
Using it in your game
Stack the layers far to near and move each at its speed times the camera (0 stays put, 1 moves with the world). In Godot 4.3+ give each a Parallax2D with scroll_scale = (speed, 0) and repeat_size = (width, 0); the speeds file has every value. Scale by a whole number with nearest filtering to keep the pixels sharp.
Frequently asked questions
What do I get?
One PNG per layer (sky, sun or moon, clouds, mountains, hills, city or ruins, trees), the composed background, a scrolling GIF and a speeds file. The sky is opaque; every other layer is transparent where it is empty, so you can stack them in your engine.
Do the layers tile?
Yes. Every layer repeats seamlessly left to right, so a camera can scroll forever. Width is kept to a multiple of 8 so even the sky's dither pattern meets itself at the edge.
How do I set it up in Godot?
Use one Parallax2D node per layer (Godot 4.3+) with the layer as a Sprite2D child, scroll_scale set to the layer's speed and repeat_size to the image width. The speeds file lists every value, plus ParallaxLayer motion_scale and motion_mirroring for Godot 4.0 to 4.2.
Can I change the colours?
Pick a preset (day, sunset, night, dusk forest, snowy mountains or alien world), then override the sky top, horizon, land and light colours. Far layers fade towards the horizon colour and near layers stay dark, so the depth holds whatever you choose.
Is it free, and is anything uploaded?
Free, with no account and no limit, and everything runs in your browser. The free parallax_background tool on the Voidless MCP server makes the same backgrounds from Claude Code or Cursor.
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