How to make infinite moving clouds

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So I want to have some clouds that slowly move over time and repeat with the camera and I'm have trouble. Should I also have a parallax script on the clouds or not? The cloud script I have right now doesn't move with the camera and I just don't like it too much, any other suggestions on how to do this? This is what I have at the moment.

 {
   private float speed;
   public float minSpeed;
   public float maxSpeed;
   public float minX;
   public float maxX;
 
   private void Start()
   {
       speed = Random.Range(minSpeed, maxSpeed);
   }
 
   private void Update()
   {
       transform.Translate(Vector2.right * speed * Time.deltaTime);
 
     if (transform.position.x > maxX)
     {
       Vector2 newPos = new Vector2(minX, transform.position.y);
       transform.position = newPos;
     }
   }
 }

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Answer by rhapen · Oct 24, 2020 at 09:46 AM

I did repeating terrain script before. If you only change the terrain for clouds it would work just fine i believe. I have 3 terrains with size 500f which always append themselves in front of each other. And If you want the clouds to move with camera/player child the clouds to camera and restrict rotation in editor.

 public Transform terrain1;
 public Transform terrain2;
 public Transform terrain3;
 public float speed = 15f;
 public float terrainSize = 500f;
 public float numberOfTerrains = 3f;
 public float origXlocation = -250f;
 public float origYlocation = -5f;
 float z1;
 float z2;
 float z3;
 Vector3 newposition;
 
 
 // Update is called once per frame
 void Update()
 {
     newposition = transform.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed;
     terrain1.transform.position += newposition;
     terrain2.transform.position += newposition;
     terrain3.transform.position += newposition;
 
     //Debug.Log(terrain1.transform.position.z);
     z1 = terrain1.transform.position.z;
     z2 = terrain2.transform.position.z;
     z3 = terrain3.transform.position.z;
 
     //go to the end of 1st terain warp back
     if (z1 >= terrainSize)
     {
         z1 = z1 - (numberOfTerrains* terrainSize);
         terrain1.transform.position = new Vector3(origXlocation, origYlocation, z1);
     }
     if (z2 >= terrainSize)
     {
         z2 = z2 - (numberOfTerrains * terrainSize);
         terrain2.transform.position = new Vector3(origXlocation, origYlocation, z2);
     }
     if (z3 >= terrainSize)
     {
         z3 = z3 - (numberOfTerrains * terrainSize);
         terrain3.transform.position = new Vector3(origXlocation, origYlocation, z3);
     }
 }

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kikimevy · Oct 24, 2020 at 11:01 AM 0

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Thank you for responding but this is for a 3d game. $$anonymous$$y game is 2d, its in the tags. But if you have any idea on how to do the clouds in 2d that would help a lot. :)

kikimevy · Oct 24, 2020 at 01:06 PM 0

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Sorry forgot to @rhapen

rhapen · Oct 24, 2020 at 04:02 PM 0

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oops sorry. $$anonymous$$issed that. But either way you can actually use the same idea just change the vector3 to vector2 z is your x and and instead of locking rotation lock the y position

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