--- title: "Render Texture" docs: "Phaser Guide" url: https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser/concepts/gameobjects/render-texture site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- > This page is about the open-source Phaser framework, for writing a game's code by hand. To make a game with AI, use Phaser AE (https://phaser.io/): the desk's tools work with Web MCP, and the CLI works with your own coding agent. See "For AI agents: Phaser AE" at the end of this page. # Render Texture A Render Texture is a combination of Dynamic Texture and an Image Game Object, that uses the Dynamic Texture to display itself with. A Dynamic Texture is a special texture that allows you to draw textures, frames and most kind of Game Objects directly to it. You can take many complex objects and draw them to this one texture, which can then be used as the base texture for other Game Objects, such as Sprites. Should you then update this texture, all Game Objects using it will instantly be updated as well, reflecting the changes immediately. It's a powerful way to generate dynamic textures at run-time that are WebGL friendly and don't invoke expensive GPU uploads on each change. In versions of Phaser before 3.60 a Render Texture was the only way you could create a texture like this, that had the ability to be drawn on. But in 3.60 we split the core functions out to the Dynamic Texture class as it made a lot more sense for them to reside in there. As a result, the Render Texture is now a light-weight shim that sits on-top of an Image Game Object and offers proxy methods to the features available from a Dynamic Texture. **When should you use a Render Texture vs. a Dynamic Texture?** You should use a Dynamic Texture if the texture is going to be used by multiple Game Objects, or you want to use it across multiple Scenes, because textures are globally stored. You should use a Dynamic Texture if the texture isn't going to be displayed in-game, but is instead going to be used for something like a mask or shader. You should use a Render Texture if you need to display the texture in-game on a single Game Object, as it provides the convenience of wrapping an Image and Dynamic Texture together for you. Under WebGL1, a FrameBuffer, which is what this Dynamic Texture uses internally, cannot be anti-aliased. This means that when drawing objects such as Shapes or Graphics instances to this texture, they may appear to be drawn with no aliasing around the edges. This is a technical limitation of WebGL1. To get around it, create your shape as a texture in an art package, then draw that to this texture. ## Add render texture object - Create an empty render texture object. ```javascript var rt = this.add.renderTexture(x, y, width, height); ``` Add render texture from JSON ```javascript var rt = this.make.renderTexture({ x: 0, y: 0, width: 32, height: 32, // angle: 0, // alpha: 1 // flipX: true, // flipY: true, // scale : { // x: 1, // y: 1 //}, // origin: {x: 0.5, y: 0.5}, add: true }); ``` !!! note "Origin position" Origin position of this render texture is `(0, 0)` (top-left) ## Custom class - Define class ```javascript class MyRenderTexture extends Phaser.GameObjects.RenderTexture { constructor(scene, x, y, width, height) { super(scene, x, y, width, height); // ... this.add.existing(this); } // ... // preUpdate(time, delta) {} } ``` - `this.add.existing(gameObject)` : Adds an existing Game Object to this Scene. - If the Game Object renders, it will be added to the Display List. - If it has a `preUpdate` method, it will be added to the Update List. - Create instance ```javascript var rt = new MyRenderTexture(scene, x, y, width, height); ``` ## Set size ```javascript rt.setSize(width, height); ``` ## Fill color ```javascript rt.fill(rgb); // rt.fill(rgb, alpha, x, y, width, height); ``` - `rgb` : The number color to fill this Dynamic Texture with. - `alpha` : The alpha value used by the fill. Default value is `1`. - `x`, `y`, `width`, `height` : The area of the fill rectangle. Default behavior is filling whole size. ## Clear ```javascript rt.clear(); ``` ```javascript rt.clear(x, y, width, height); ``` ## Draw game object ```javascript rt.draw(entries); // rt.draw(entries,x, y); // rt.draw(entries, x, y, alpha, tint); ``` - `entries` : - Any renderable Game Object, such as a Sprite, Text, Graphics or TileSprite. - Tilemap Layers. - A Group. The contents of which will be iterated and drawn in turn. - A Container. The contents of which will be iterated fully, and drawn in turn. - A Scene Display List. Pass in `Scene.children` to draw the whole list. - Another Dynamic Texture, or a Render Texture. - A Texture Frame instance. - A string. This is used to look-up the texture from the Texture Manager. - `x`, `y` : The x/y position to draw the Frame at, or the offset applied to the object. - If the object is a Group, Container or Display List, the coordinates are *added* to the positions of the children. - For all other types of object, the coordinates are exact. - `alpha`, `tint` : Only used by Texture Frames. - Game Objects use their own alpha and tint values when being drawn. ## Erase ```javascript rt.erase(entries); // rt.erase(entries, x, y); ``` - `entries` : - Any renderable Game Object, such as a Sprite, Text, Graphics or TileSprite. - Tilemap Layers. - A Group. The contents of which will be iterated and drawn in turn. - A Container. The contents of which will be iterated fully, and drawn in turn. - A Scene Display List. Pass in `Scene.children` to draw the whole list. - Another Dynamic Texture, or a Render Texture. - A Texture Frame instance. - A string. This is used to look-up the texture from the Texture Manager. - `x`, `y` : The x/y position to draw the Frame at, or the offset applied to the object. - If the object is a Group, Container or Display List, the coordinates are *added* to the positions of the children. - For all other types of object, the coordinates are exact. ## Draw frame ```javascript rt.stamp(key, frame, x, y, { alpha: 1, tint: 0xffffff, angle: 0, rotation: 0, scale: 1, scaleX: 1, scaleY: 1, originX: 0.5, originY: 0.5, blendMode: 0, erase: false, skipBatch: false }) ``` or ```javascript rt.drawFrame(key, frame, x, y); // rt.drawFrame(key, frame, x, y, alpha, tint); ``` - `x`, `y` : Top-left position ## Draw repeat frames - Repeat frames full of size ```javascript rt.repeat(key, frame); ``` - Repeat in an area ```javascript rt.repeat(key, frame, x, y, width, height); // rt.repeat(key, frame, x, y, width, height, alpha, tint, skipBatch); ``` ## Batch draw 1. Begin ```javascript rt.beginDraw(); ``` 2. Draw - Draw game object ```javascript rt.batchDraw(entries, x, y, alpha, tint); ``` - `entries` : - Any renderable Game Object, such as a Sprite, Text, Graphics or TileSprite. - Tilemap Layers. - A Group. The contents of which will be iterated and drawn in turn. - A Container. The contents of which will be iterated fully, and drawn in turn. - A Scene Display List. Pass in `Scene.children` to draw the whole list. - Another Dynamic Texture, or a Render Texture. - A Texture Frame instance. - A string. This is used to look-up the texture from the Texture Manager. - Draw frame ```javascript rt.batchDrawFrame(key, frame, x, y, alpha, tint); ``` - Draw image ```javascript rt.stamp(key, frame, x, y, { // ... skipBatch: true }) ``` - Draw repeat images ```javascript rt.repeat(key, frame, x, y, width, height, alpha, tint, true); ``` 3. End ```javascript rt.endDraw(); ``` ## Internal camera Internal camera `rt.camera` - Scroll (offset) ```javascript rt.camera.setScroll(x, y); ``` - Zoom (scale) ```javascript rt.camera.setZoom(zoom); ``` - Rotate ```javascript rt.camera.setAngle(angle); // angle in degrees ``` ## Snapshot ### Snapshot area ```javascript texture.snapshot(callback); // texture.snapshot(callback, type, encoderOptions); ``` or ```javascript texture.snapshotArea(x, y, width, height, callback, type, encoderOptions); ``` - `callback` : The Function to invoke after the snapshot image is created. ```javascript function(imageElement) { } ``` - `imageElement` : HTMLImageElement. - `type` : The format of the image to create, usually `'image/png'` or `'image/jpeg'`. Default value is `'image/png'`. - `encoderOptions` : The image quality, between `0` and `1`. Used for image formats with lossy compression, such as `'image/jpeg'`. Default value is `0.92`. - `x`, `y`, `width`, `height` : Snapshot area. ### Get color of a pixel ```javascript texture.snapshotPixel(x, y, callback); ``` - `x`, `y` : The x/y coordinate of the pixel to get. - `callback` : The Function to invoke after the snapshot image is created. ```javascript function(color) { } ``` - `color` : Color object. ## Global alpha ```javascript rt.setGlobalAlpha(alpha); // rt.globalAlpha = alpha; ``` ## Global tint ```javascript rt.setGlobalTint(tint); // rt.globalTint = tint; ``` ## Save texture Stores a copy of this Render Texture in the Texture Manager using the given key. ```javascript rt.saveTexture(key); ``` Calling `saveTexture` again will not save another copy of the same texture, it will just rename the key of the existing copy. ## Other properties See [game object](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser/concepts/gameobjects.md) ## Create mask ```javascript var mask = rt.createBitmapMask(); ``` See [mask](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser/concepts/display.md#masks) ## Shader effects Support [preFX and postFX effects](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser/concepts/gameobjects/shader.md) ## Author Credits Content on this page includes work by: - [RexRainbow](https://github.com/rexrainbow) --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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