--- title: "Debug overlay: API" package: "@phaser-ae/debug" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "A scene-wide overlay that draws bounds, hitboxes, touching sides, velocity, ids, raycasts and a profiler bar over the finished frame while you build and test a 2D game." url: https://phaser.io/packs/debug/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Debug overlay: API `@phaser-ae/debug` — The debug overlay: bounds, hitboxes, touching sides, velocity, ids, rays and a profiler bar, drawn over the finished frame by one scene-wide config. ## The pack ### `debug` ```ts function debug(): Pack<{ debug: DebugApi }> ``` The debug overlay pack. Adds a `debug` pass after `screen` and before `present`, a simulate step that counts fixed steps, and `game.debug`. No options: everything is the `show()` config. Requires a 2D world; draws on WebGPU or WebGL2, and gathers headless so `snapshot()` and `inspect()` stay current. ## Types ### `DebugApi` ```ts interface DebugApi ``` `game.debug`: the overlay's switch, and the data surface a panel is built on. - `show(config?: DebugConfig): void` — Switch the overlay on with this config (omitted fields take their defaults). Undone when the scene exits. - `hide(): void` — Switch the overlay off. The profiler rings keep filling. - `readonly on: boolean` — Whether the overlay is drawing (or, headless, gathering). - `readonly config: Readonly>> & Pick` — The config in force, defaults filled in. - `snapshot(): string` — The overlay as text: one line per object drawn, then the stats. What a screenshot would show, for a test or a paste. - `report(key: string, value: string | number): void` — Draw calls and whatever else a backend reports, for the stats line. Set by the test bed or a backend; optional. - `inspect(): Inspect` — This frame, in numbers: clock, fps and the three timing rings, scenes, passes, the backend's counts, heap. Cheap; poll it. - `objects(): ObjectSummary[]` — Every live object, one line each. - `object(id: string): ObjectRecord | null` — One object in full: transform, extents, tags, its `data` bag, and every pack's sub-object (`body`, `grid`, `fsm`…) as plain values. - `set(id: string, path: string, value: unknown): void` — Write a field: `set('pac-1', 'x', 100)`, `set('ball-3', 'body.vx', 0)`, `set('crab-2', 'data.hp', 9)`. Throws on an unknown object or path. - `pause(): void` — Pause the clock. - `resume(): void` — Resume the clock. - `step(n?: number): void` — Frame advance: while paused, run `n` fixed steps on the next frame (default 1). Pauses first if running. ### `DebugConfig` ```ts interface DebugConfig ``` What `show()` takes: what to draw, what to leave out, and two optional keys. - `bounds?: boolean` — The rendered quad of every object (interpolated, rotated, scaled). Default on. - `hitboxes?: boolean` — Collision shapes (`collide` data: box or circle) and physics AABBs (`body`). Default on. - `touching?: boolean` — Sides a physics body is touching, drawn as thick edges. Default on. - `velocity?: boolean` — Velocity arrows: `body.vx/vy`, or prev→curr for everything else. Default on. - `ids?: boolean` — The object's id above it. Default off (busy). - `stats?: boolean` — The text panel: objects drawn, anything a backend `report()`s, the pass order. Default off. - `profiler?: boolean` — The profiler bar along the bottom: fps with min/max, frame / simulate / render ms graphs, JS heap, instances, draw calls, textures. Default on. - `rays?: boolean` — Every raycast made this frame (collision or physics): the ray, its reach, the hit point. Default on. - `pauseKey?: string` — A key that pauses and resumes the clock (`'F2'`). Default: none. - `exclude?: ReadonlyArray` — Tags or id prefixes to leave out (`['wall', 'dot']`). - `only?: ReadonlyArray` — Draw only these tags or id prefixes. - `toggleKey?: string` — A key that toggles the overlay (`'F1'`, `'Backquote'`). Default: none. - `owned?: boolean` — Also draw objects a PACK spawned (text glyphs, lights, particles). Default off: they are the pack's business, and a line of text is forty boxes. ### `Inspect` ```ts interface Inspect ``` One frame in numbers, from `inspect()`. - `frame: number` — The clock's frame counter. - `time: number` — Simulation time, seconds. - `paused: boolean` — Whether the clock is paused. - `stepsThisFrame: number` — Fixed steps the last frame ran. - `fps: number` — Frames per second, sampled every 500 ms. - `fpsRange: [number, number]` — Min and max fps over the ring. - `rings: { frame: number[]; sim: number[]; render: number[]; fps: number[] }` — Last 120 samples, oldest first: frame, simulate and render time in ms, and fps. - `objects: number` — Live objects in the roster. - `drawn: number` — Objects the overlay drew last frame. - `rays: number` — Raycasts made last frame. - `scenes: { current: string; stack: string[] }` — The current scene and the stack under it. - `passes: string[]` — The frame pass order. - `backend: { drawCalls: number; instances: number; textures: number; textureBytes: number } | null` — The backend's counts from its bag, or null headless. - `heapMB: number | null` — JS heap in MB where the browser reports it, else null. ### `ObjectRecord` ```ts interface ObjectRecord extends ObjectSummary ``` One object in full: from `object(id)`. - `z: number` — Depth nudge within the layer. - `rot: number` — Rotation, radians. - `sx: number` — Scale x. - `sy: number` — Scale y. - `width: number` — Unscaled width. - `height: number` — Unscaled height. - `depth: number` — The resolved draw depth. - `frame: number` — The atlas frame index. - `tint: string` — The tint as CSS hex. - `data: Record` — The object's own `data` bag, read into plain values. - `sub: Record>` — Each pack's sub-object, read into plain values (numbers, strings, booleans; nested objects one level). ### `ObjectSummary` ```ts interface ObjectSummary ``` One object, one line: from `objects()`. - `id: string` — The object's id. - `owner: string` — Who spawned it: 'game' or a pack id. - `tags: string[]` — Its tags. - `layer: string` — Its draw layer. - `x: number` — Position, world or screen units by layer. - `y: number` — Position, world or screen units by layer. - `visible: boolean` — Whether it draws. - `packs: string[]` — Which pack sub-objects it carries (body, collide, grid, fsm, light, anim). --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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