Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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With one shader, transform the graphics of your game from simple 2D and give it a 3D feel!

📁 Project: github.com/gurpreetsinghmatharoo/gms-top-down-parallax

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Credits:
Thanks a lot to Anthony Pismarov for the art!
twitter.com/AnthonyPismarov
And thanks to Juju for letting me know about the View Matrix trick!
twitter.com/jujuadams

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Theory Explanation
03:42 Texture Settings
04:15 Z-Depth Ordering
06:07 Coding the Shader
09:23 Applying Shader (Single Batch)
11:28 Bonus - Lighting Trick