--- title: "First-person weapon art: API" package: "@phaser-ae/fps-weapon-art" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-0 released: 2026-10-24 updated: 2026-10-24 description: "Ready-made pixel-art weapons for first-person shooters, seen from behind the player's eyes, with firing frames, muzzle flashes and pickups to lie on the floor." url: https://phaser.io/packs/fps-weapon-art/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # First-person weapon art: API `@phaser-ae/fps-weapon-art` — Ready-made first-person weapon pictures with firing frames and floor pickups for the corridor and sector shooter sets. ## The pack ### `fpsWeaponArt` ```ts function fpsWeaponArt(): Pack<{ weaponArt: WeaponArtApi }> ``` The fps-weapon-art pack: `game.weaponArt`, ready-made first-person weapon pictures with firing frames and pickups for the four FPS preset sets. No options. ## Helpers ### `findWeaponArt` ```ts function findWeaponArt(id: string, set?: string): string | null ``` The art a weapon id should wear; see `WeaponArtApi.find`. ### `FLASH_ART` ```ts const FLASH_ART: Readonly> ``` The muzzle flashes, 128 × 128, by kind. ### `WEAPON_ART` ```ts const WEAPON_ART: Readonly> ``` Every weapon's pictures as 256-colour PNGs in base64, by `set/id`. ### `weaponArtFrame` ```ts function weaponArtFrame(info: WeaponArtInfo, view: { readonly recoil: number }, time: number): number ``` The frame to show now; see `WeaponArtApi.frame`. ## Types ### `WeaponArtApi` ```ts interface WeaponArtApi ``` `game.weaponArt`. - `readonly names: readonly string[]` — Every weapon's art, by `set/id`. - `readonly sets: readonly string[]` — The sets: `classic` (Sector Assault), `modern` (Overdrive), `corridor` (Corridor Raid), `crypt` (Crypt Crawl). - `find(id: string, set?: string): string | null` — The art a weapon id should wear: `set/id` as it is, the id in `set`, the id in any set, or a guess from its words (`'heavy-shotgun'` wears a shotgun, `'magic-wand'` the staff). Null when nothing fits. - `load(weapons: ReadonlyArray, options?: WeaponArtLoadOptions): Promise>` — Paint weapons into the atlas: each id (or `{ id, art }` to choose the art) gets its view frames at `prefix + id` and, when there is one, its pickup at `pickupPrefix + id`. Ids with no art are left out. Async, because a browser decodes the pictures; headless, the frames exist with the right count but blank. - `frame(info: WeaponArtInfo, view: { readonly recoil: number }, time: number): number` — The frame index (within `info.key`) to show now, from the arsenal's `view` (`recoil` 1 just after a shot, falling to 0) and a clock in seconds, which alternates an automatic's flashes. ### `WeaponArtEntry` ```ts interface WeaponArtEntry ``` One weapon's pictures, as the pack ships them. - `readonly view: string` — The first-person view, a 256-colour PNG in base64. - `readonly size: readonly [number, number]` — Its size in pixels. - `readonly muzzle: readonly [number, number]` — Where the barrel's tip is in the view, pixels from the top left: where the flash goes. - `readonly flash: WeaponFlash` — The flash its shots make. - `readonly motion: WeaponMotion` — How it animates. - `readonly strike?: string` — A blade's or fist's striking pose, the same size as the view. - `readonly pickup?: string` — The weapon lying on the floor, 128 × 64, for a pickup. ### `WeaponArtInfo` ```ts interface WeaponArtInfo ``` A weapon as it was painted: its keys, sizes and which frame is which. - `readonly id: string` — The weapon id it was painted for. - `readonly art: string` — The art it wears, `set/id`. - `readonly key: string` — The atlas key of its view frames. - `readonly width: number` — One view frame's size in pixels. - `readonly height: number` — One view frame's size in pixels. - `readonly frames: { readonly idle: number; readonly fire: number; readonly recoil: number; readonly alt: number }` — Which frame of `key` is which: `idle`; `fire` (the flash, a blade's or fist's strike, a staff's cast); `recoil` (kicked back, a blade on its way back, a staff's glow); `alt` (an automatic's second flash), or -1. - `readonly motion: WeaponMotion` — How it animates. - `readonly flash: WeaponFlash` — The flash its shots make. - `readonly pickup: string | null` — The atlas key of its pickup picture (128 × 64), or null when it has none (fists and blades). ### `WeaponArtLoadOptions` ```ts interface WeaponArtLoadOptions ``` Options for `load`. - `set?: string` — The set to look in first: `'classic'`, `'modern'`, `'corridor'` or `'crypt'`. Default none (any set). - `prefix?: string` — Atlas keys for the views are this plus the weapon id. Default `'wv-'`. - `pickupPrefix?: string` — Atlas keys for the pickups are this plus the weapon id. Default `'wp-'`. - `kick?: number` — How far a shot kicks the gun down the screen, in view pixels; the recoil frame twice that. Default 6. - `flashSize?: number` — The muzzle flash's size, as a share of the view's width. Default 0.4. ### `WeaponFlash` ```ts type WeaponFlash = 'powder' | 'plasma' | 'magic' | 'none' ``` How a weapon's shots look at the muzzle: a powder flash, an energy burst, a magic burst, or none (a crossbow, a blade). ### `WeaponMotion` ```ts type WeaponMotion = 'gun' | 'auto' | 'melee' | 'staff' ``` How a weapon animates: a gun kicks and flashes, an automatic alternates its flash, a blade or fist strikes, a staff casts. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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