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Currently, the Parallax2D node can only provide infinite scrolling of a (repeating) background by use of the Autoscroll property. This is a bit limited because it essentially presumes the desire is to let the camera handle the scrolling, and from testing, it did not seem setting the autoscroll property directly worked.

This exposes a "manual scroll" property that will simply augment the autoscroll if there is one, but allows direct control of the scroll behavior regardless, while utilizing the implicit infinite scrolling ability.
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Currently, setting the scroll offset or the autoscroll at runtime doesn't work if you want infinite scrolling. An example use case is, you have autoscrolling, but you want a temporary speed burst and have the background speed up in tandem, or you simply want to control it based on events, and not a constant pan, etc...

Existing properties were left in tact so it shouldn't break stuff.

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  • New Features
    • Added a manual scroll offset setting to Parallax2D for applying programmatic pixel offsets.
    • Manual offsets can be adjusted independently of automatic scrolling.
    • Offsets are supported with repeated backgrounds and wrap appropriately when repetition is enabled.
    • The setting is available through scripting and the editor inspector, with a default offset of zero.

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Parallax2D now provides a manual_scroll offset with Vector2 accessors, inspector and scripting exposure, documentation, repeated-axis wrapping, and integration into scroll calculations.

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Parallax2D manual scrolling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Manual scroll API and property exposure
scene/2d/parallax_2d.h, scene/2d/parallax_2d.cpp, doc/classes/Parallax2D.xml
Parallax2D stores manual_scroll and exposes documented setter and getter methods through scripting and the inspector.
Manual scroll calculation and normalization
scene/2d/parallax_2d.cpp
The setter wraps enabled repeated axes, ignores unchanged values, and refreshes scrolling. _update_scroll applies the offset to repeated and non-repeated axis calculations.

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The change adds manual control for Parallax2D scrolling without supplied evidence of an actionable merge-blocking risk; it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

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In `@scene/2d/parallax_2d.cpp`:
- Around line 226-230: Update the manual_scroll wrapping logic in the relevant
setter to use the scaled repeat period, matching _update_scroll()’s repeat_size
* get_scale() calculation. Ensure each axis normalizes against the rendered
period so setting an offset preserves the requested rendered position.
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