Osu: Disable or improve parallax to be less distracting during play

[Stekeblad]

While I played my first map in lazer for a long time I noticed that the background was slightly moving in the opposite direction of the cursor. This behaviour is in stable as well but I do not think it happens during gameplay there. The background "wiggling" was a bit confusing to play with so I want to start a discussion about if this should happen during gameplay or if the wiggling should be excluded from it.

It felt a little like if moving the cursor also moves the background, the background would drag the circles and sliders with it, but I know it don't and that was confusing.

Lazer version: 2018.213.0

[VPeruS]

It's parallax backgroud effect, you can disable it in settings

[Joehuu]

Maybe he wanted parallax on menu, but not on gameplay. Should be an setting for parallax separately for gameplay and menu.

[Stekeblad]

Thanks for the tip about the setting.I like the effect but I think it should not happen during gameplay

[peppy]

It will likely be dialled back or disabled before release. I think everyone agrees that it is very distracting with its current implementation.

[Frontear]

This should potentially be controlled from a temporary toggle, where it gets disabled at https://github.com/ppy/osu/blob/c701b8eae506fe8d50caacfa22806df0ccbcbdd2/osu.Game/Screens/Play/PlayerLoader.cs#L61 and re enabled from the config (Even if not from PlayerLoader, somewhere similar might be the best option, since it should be called as soon as the player enters the beatmap).

I personally think the parallax is very nicely done as it is, and would hate to see it either removed or dialed back. I agree that it shouldn't be running while the user is playing. Maybe we can offer that as an option, where a user decides whether parallax runs in gameplay or not. It could help to record some very nice looking replays, for professional plays.

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We could add it as an option in Visual Settings..