---
title: "Pixel Perfect Pointer Down"
description: "This example demonstrates how to use pixel-perfect hit areas for input detection, allowing clicks only on non-transparent pixels and setting custom alpha thresholds."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/pixel%20perfect/view/on-down
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Pixel Perfect Pointer Down

This example demonstrates how to use pixel-perfect hit areas for input detection, allowing clicks only on non-transparent pixels and setting custom alpha thresholds.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Input / Pixel Perfect](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/pixel%20perfect.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/pixel%20perfect/view/on-down.

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

### on down.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    preload ()
    {
        this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');
        this.load.image('logo', 'assets/sprites/phaser3-logo.png');
        this.load.image('logoAlpha', 'assets/sprites/phaser3-logo-alpha.png');
    }

    create ()
    {
        //  This sprite is clickable on any pixel that has an alpha value >= 1
        const sprite1 = this.add.sprite(400, 200, 'logo').setInteractive({ pixelPerfect: true });

        //  This sprite is clickable on any pixel that has an alpha value >= 100 (i.e. the left side of the sprite)
        const sprite2 = this.add.sprite(400, 400, 'logoAlpha').setInteractive(this.input.makePixelPerfect(100));

        const text = this.add.text(10, 10, 'Click either of the sprites', { font: '16px Courier', fill: '#000000' });

        sprite1.on('pointerdown', () =>
        {

            text.setText('Clicked Sprite 1');

        });

        sprite2.on('pointerdown', () =>
        {

            text.setText('Clicked Sprite 2');

        });
    }
}

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

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

## More in Pixel Perfect

- [Pixel Perfect Alpha Input](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/pixel%20perfect/view/image-with-lots-of-alpha.md): Demonstrates how to enable pixel-perfect hit detection on an interactive sprite, ensuring pointer events only trigger on non-transparent areas of the image texture.
- [Pixel Perfect Atlas Frame](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/pixel%20perfect/view/atlas-frame.md): Demonstrates how to use pixel-perfect input detection on a Sprite that uses a frame from a texture atlas.
- [Pixel Perfect Dragging](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/pixel%20perfect/view/on-drag.md): Demonstrates how to enable dragging on sprites using pixel-perfect input detection and custom alpha tolerance levels.
- [Pixel Perfect Input with Atlas Frames](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/pixel%20perfect/view/large-trimmed-atlas-frame.md): Demonstrates how to enable pixel-perfect input detection on a sprite using a trimmed frame from a texture atlas.
- [Pixel Perfect Input with Transformations](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/pixel%20perfect/view/transformed.md): Demonstrates pixel-perfect input detection on sprites that have been scaled and rotated, including how to set a custom alpha threshold for hit detection.
- [Pixel Perfect Pointer Move](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/pixel%20perfect/view/on-move.md): Demonstrates how to use pixel-perfect input detection to trigger pointermove events only when the cursor is over non-transparent pixels, including how to set custom alpha thresholds.

---

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