---
title: "Text to Render Texture"
description: "Demonstrates how to draw an invisible Text object onto a Render Texture and apply transformations using the Render Texture's internal camera rotation."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/text-to-render-texture
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Text to Render Texture

Demonstrates how to draw an invisible Text object onto a Render Texture and apply transformations using the Render Texture's internal camera rotation.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Game Objects / Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture.md). It runs at 800 × 600, and loads its assets from https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410. See it running, with its code, at https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/text-to-render-texture.

To run it, load Phaser 4.1.0 (`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@4.1.0/dist/phaser.min.js`), then the file, on a page with a `<div id="game-container">`.

## Code

### text to render texture.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    text;
    rt;

    create ()
    {
        this.text = this.add.text(0, 0, 'Hello from a\nRender Texture').setFontSize(48);

        this.text.setVisible(false);

        this.rt = this.add.renderTexture(400, 300, 800, 600);
    }

    update ()
    {
        this.rt.camera.rotation -= 0.01;

        this.rt.clear();

        this.rt.draw(this.text, 400, 300);

        this.rt.render();
    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.AUTO,
    parent: 'game-container',
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    scene: Example
};

const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

## More in Render Texture

- [Batch Drawing to a Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/batch-draw-sprite.md): Demonstrates how to draw multiple instances of a sprite onto a Render Texture in a single pass using a loop.
- [Batch Stamp Atlas Frames to Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/batch-draw-frame.md): Demonstrates how to iterate through all frames in a texture atlas and draw them to a Render Texture using the stamp method.
- [Blitter to Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/blitter-to-render-texture.md): Demonstrates how to draw a Blitter object onto a Render Texture and apply transformations like rotation using the Render Texture's internal camera.
- [Capture Game Object In World](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/capture-game-object-in-world.md): Demonstrates how to capture a specific Game Object into a Render Texture using its global world transformations, preserving its position, rotation, and scale as it appears in the scene.
- [Container to Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/container-to-render-texture.md): Demonstrates how to draw a hidden Container and its children onto a Render Texture, including how to manipulate the Render Texture's internal camera for rotation effects.
- [Destroy Game with Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/destroy-game-with-render-texture.md): Demonstrates creating a custom texture using a Render Texture, populating the scene with images based on that texture, and then properly destroying the game instance.
- [Destroy Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/destroy-render-texture.md): Demonstrates how to properly destroy a Render Texture and its associated texture cache entry, including cleaning up Game Objects that are referencing the texture.
- [Draw Atlas Frames to a Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/change-frame.md): Demonstrates how to draw specific texture atlas frames onto a Render Texture. Click different sprites to change which frame is drawn at the cursor's position.
- [Draw Game Objects To Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/draw-game-objects-to-render-texture.md): Demonstrates drawing multiple hidden Game Object types (Graphics, Text, Particles, TileSprites, and Blitters) onto a single Render Texture and rotating its internal camera.
- [Draw on Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/draw-on-texture.md): Demonstrates interactive drawing onto a Render Texture using pointer events. The resulting drawing is saved as a dynamic texture and applied to a grid of animated sprites in real-time.
- [Draw Textures to Render Texture by Key](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/texture-key-to-render-texture.md): Learn how to draw multiple images onto a Render Texture using their loaded asset keys and specific coordinates.
- [Drawing a Tilemap Layer to a Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture/view/static-tilemap-to-render-texture.md): Demonstrates how to draw a hidden Tilemap Layer multiple times into a Render Texture while applying transformations like rotation through the Render Texture's internal camera.
- [All 45 examples in Render Texture](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20objects/render%20texture.md)

---

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