Space Backgrounds - Parallax & 20 Planets

12 parallax space scenes, 20 rotating planets, for any engine. Six layers a scene: deep space, two star fields, a drifting nebula, a planet and an asteroid field, every layer a 1920x1080 PNG that tiles seamlessly both ways, so you can fly in any direction. Plus 20 planets turning in 48-frame loops, 8 tumbling asteroids and 6 nebula loops churning in place. Everything in three sets: 1080 and 540 HD, and pixel art drawn at its size, not shrunk.

Try it first: click Run asset pack above: fly through all 12, take one apart a layer at a time, and turn the live planet shader through every preset, in your browser.

What's inside

• 12 scenes: deep blue, an aurora's green and violet, an alien purple under a teal-ringed giant, crimson, toxic green, golden, frozen, the void, rose, an inferno round a lava world, teal round an earthlike planet, and a galactic core with a black hole
• 20 rotating planets: terran with city lights on its night side, ocean, jungle, desert, rust, tundra, ice, lava, toxic, alien, crystal, a cratered moon, a barren rock, two gas giants with storms, two ringed giants, a star with its corona, a red dwarf and a black hole with its lensed disk
• 8 tumbling asteroids: rock, carbon, iron, ice, metal, and gold, crystal and magma with glowing veins

• 6 nebula loops: gas churning and stars twinkling, a seamless loop, for title screens and menus

• Godot 4 player included: SpaceBackground.add(self, "alien") puts a scene behind yours and follows your Camera2D both ways; bg.change("void", 3.0) crossfades to another; SpaceBackground.sprite("planet_terran") gives you a planet turning.

• The planet shader, live in Godot: SpacePlanet draws any of the 20 planets or 8 asteroids at any size, smooth or as pixels, turning forever: change its colours, seas, clouds, cities or rings, or point its sun.
• Import steps for Unity and GameMaker in the README.

Made to go with our skies

The scenes share their moods with Parallax Skies: take off from its starry night into the deep blue, from its aurora into the aurora, from its alien world into the alien scene under the same teal-ringed planet.

Compatibility

• Any engine that draws a repeating texture or a sprite sheet: Unity, GameMaker, Godot, Defold, Construct, Phaser, LÖVE, MonoGame.
• The Godot player and planet shader: Godot 4.3 to 4.7, tested on both ends and on every renderer.

Want to try it first? Space Backgrounds Free has three scenes, four planets, two asteroids and a nebula loop.

License

Use in unlimited commercial and non-commercial games. No attribution required. Don't resell or redistribute the images or the shader themselves as an asset.

Made with AI assistance (code, text, graphics): every scene, planet and asteroid is drawn by shaders we wrote, tested in Godot 4.3 and 4.7.

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