How to make an Afterburner-like background?

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In the Afterburner games, the background water layer rotates as you move around. Is there any easy way to replicate this effect? I would've just used the Mode 7 ex Object, but as far as I can tell, you can't rotate it.

Pretty simple.
First make your .GIF background and then use the Rotate function in fusion, linked to your Player's Jet.
I.E. Player jet +25 Degree Angle / Background -25 Degree angle

You can make your Backgrounds using wondershare and GIMP.

1. Use Wondershare to extract the GIF
2. Use Gimp to remove the jet image from each frame. ( You could also cut the jet out to make a .PNG with Gimp for the player Jet
3. Import the .gif files as an animation with Fusion
4. Loop the background

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I guess I could just do that, but I was looking for something that could be altered on the fly like the Mode 7 object.

True, Mode 7 is a Simulated 3d world though. Not sure how you would loop the world.

Here is a quick example of what I was saying. This was 5 lines of code.

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Obviously, much more could be added to make it almost identical to Afterburner.

Left / right Movement ( jet )
Loopdeloop ( jet )
Background moves to the left and right / Up and down
Aircraft carrier take off
Random Bushes instead of the same repeating background
etc

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In the Afterburner games, the background water layer rotates as you move around. Is there any easy way to replicate this effect? I would've just used the Mode 7 ex Object, but as far as I can tell, you can't rotate it.

Thanks for bringing this up.
After making the little Preview. I decided to make a little game with it.

Below is another sample. I plan on adding moving water when you turn and clouds.

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