Camera shake for specific nodes

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highlander

I have added camera shake to a 2D scene that is static (camera does not follow the player). The scene has multiple CanvasLayers and ParallaxBackgrounds and looks like this:

(Node2D) Level - (CanvasLayer) Background (Layer 0) - ParallaxBackground (Layer 0) - ParallaxBackground (Layer 0) - ParallaxBackground (Layer 1) - (CanvasLayer) Foreground (Layer 2) - (CanvasLayer) UI (Layer 3) - (Camera2D) Camera (Z Index 0, Z As Relative on)

The issue is that the camera shake only affects the ParallaxBackgrounds. What I want the camera shake to affect is only the Foreground layer and its nodes.

I have tried making the Foreground a child of the camera, hoping that would limit the camera shake to those nodes, but no matter where I place the camera in the scene the shake is only applied to the ParallaxBackgrounds. I've also tried different Layer and Z Index property combinations with the camera, but haven't been able to limit the camera shake.

Why is camera shake only being applied to the ParallaxBackground layers?

sparrow_alto

It seems like the camera shake is being amplified by the ParallaxBackgrounds, and afaik you can't move the current camera without those reacting. I think your best bet would be to emulate a camera shake by parenting everything you want to shake to some kind of CanvasItem (other than a camera) and moving that instead.

highlander

@sparrow_alto I think you're right, and after reading the CanvasLayer documentation again it sounds like using multiple canvas layers and only applying the "camera shake" to the layer I want is the best way to achieve this. Thanks for the reply.