Ok got it working....even built a player and background class.
Code much tidier.

That kind of works but I need it to scroll based on character walking direction.
I have the scrolling working nicely, it's just that the image is larger than the screen dimensions, and I need to scale the image to fit a quad that has the same dimensions as the screen.

Excellent! I know have this working although I need to scale the Quad/QuadTexture to fit the viewport. When I try to add the scale factor for x,y it just appears to move the texture rather than scale it: local sx, sy = background.quad:getTextureDimensions() sx = love.graphics:getWidth() / sx sy = lo...

Hi. I'm new to Love2d and I'm playing around and learning as I go....maybe write a game at some point! I'm trying to implement a scrolling background, where when my character sprite is walking right or left the sprite stays stationary, but the background scrolls infinitely. I just can't figure out h...

Hello all!

I'm new to Love2D and I'm already making great progress, but I am stuck trying to implement a horizontal scrolling background.

What is the best way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

Ben