Creating a Flashlight or Spotlight Effect in Phaser 3 using a RenderTexture and alpha masks.

Posted on 7th Apr 2021. Follow @phaser_ and get the Phaser World newsletter.

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Tommy Leung from Ourcade presents a new tutorial: "Creating a spotlight or flashlight effect in Phaser 3 is fairly simple once you know how to use alpha masks.

You can also use this technique for a “magic lens” effect or anything that involves revealing hidden information.

If you are not familiar with using alpha masks in Phaser 3 then check out this first.

In this article, we will be building on the code example from our Reveal Effect in Phaser 3 with Alpha Masks to create a flashlight effect that illuminates a darkened Phaser logo."

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