---
title: "Stacked Camera Input"
description: "Demonstrates how pointer input interacts with multiple layered cameras, showing how to detect which specific camera triggered an object interaction."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/camera/view/stacked-camera-test
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Stacked Camera Input

Demonstrates how pointer input interacts with multiple layered cameras, showing how to detect which specific camera triggered an object interaction.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Input / Camera](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/camera.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/input/camera/view/stacked-camera-test.

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

### stacked camera test.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    preload ()
    {
        this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');
        this.load.image('eye', 'assets/pics/lance-overdose-loader-eye.png');
    }

    create ()
    {
        this.add.sprite(300, 300, 'eye').setInteractive();

        this.cameras.main.setName('cam1');

        //  Create more Cameras over the top of the main one
        const cam2 = this.cameras.add().setName('cam2');

        cam2.scrollX = 100;
        cam2.scrollY = 100;

        const cam3 = this.cameras.add().setName('cam3');

        cam3.scrollX = 200;
        cam3.scrollY = 200;

        this.input.on('gameobjectover', (pointer, gameObject) =>
        {

            console.log(pointer.camera.name);
            gameObject.setTint(0xff0000);

        });

        this.input.on('gameobjectout', (pointer, gameObject) =>
        {

            gameObject.clearTint();

        });
    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.AUTO,
    parent: 'game-container',
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    backgroundColor: '#000000',
    scene: Example
};

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

## More in Camera

- [Camera Ignore](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/camera/view/camera-ignore.md): Demonstrates how to use the camera ignore method to hide specific Game Objects from being rendered while keeping them active in the scene.
- [Camera Ignore Container](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/camera/view/camera-container-ignore.md): Demonstrates how to use the camera ignore method to prevent a specific Container and its children from being rendered by a camera.
- [Graphics Hit Testing with Camera](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/camera/view/graphics-contains.md): Demonstrates how to use getWorldPoint to map screen coordinates into world space for accurate hit testing against geometric shapes, even when the camera is zoomed or rotated.
- [Large World Camera with Smoothed Controls](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/camera/view/large-world-high-res.md): Navigate a massive 10,000x10,000 pixel world using SmoothedKeyControl and interactive sprites, featuring high-resolution support and camera boundaries.
- [Multi-Camera Sprite Input](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/camera/view/multi-cam-sprite.md): Demonstrates how interactive sprites correctly handle pointer events across four independent cameras, each with unique viewports, scroll positions, zoom levels, and rotations.
- [World Coordinates](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/camera/view/world-coordinates.md): Learn how to track the mouse pointer's position relative to the game world versus the screen viewport while a camera is scrolling.

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