--- title: "Lines in a 3D world: API" package: "@phaser-ae/lines-3d" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-4 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Polylines in a 3D scene, such as a route, a wire, an axis or a debug ray, drawn at a constant width in screen pixels however far away they are." url: https://phaser.io/packs/lines-3d/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Lines in a 3D world: API `@phaser-ae/lines-3d` — Polylines as objects — a route, a wire, an axis, a debug ray — drawn at a constant width in screen pixels. ## The pack ### `lines3d` ```ts function lines3d(opts: Lines3dOptions = {}): Pack<{ lines3d: Lines3dApi }> ``` The `lines-3d` pack: polylines as objects in a 3D world, drawn at a constant width in screen pixels. Requires a 3D world and `render-3d`. Headless it holds the lines and draws nothing. ## Types ### `Line3d` ```ts interface Line3d ``` A live line. - `points: Array` — The points, in order — the array the game owns and rewrites. Assign a new one, or mutate it in place and the change is picked up the same frame; there is no "commit". - `set(flat: ReadonlyArray): void` — Replace the points from a flat `[x, y, z, …]` run, which is what most maths hands back. - `clear(): void` — Drop every point, keeping the line itself. - `color: string` — Colour, css. Live. - `width: number` — Width in screen pixels. Live. - `alpha: number` — Opacity. Live. - `closed: boolean` — Join the ends. Live. - `visible: boolean` — Draw it. Live. - `xray: boolean` — Draw it through solids. Live. - `kill(): void` — Remove it. - `readonly alive: boolean` — False once killed. ### `LinePoint` ```ts interface LinePoint ``` A point in the world. Lines take these, or flat `[x, y, z, x, y, z, …]` — whichever the caller has. - `x: number` — World x. - `y: number` — World y; y is up. - `z: number` — World z. ### `Lines3dApi` ```ts interface Lines3dApi ``` `game.lines3d`. - `add(spec?: LineSpec): Line3d` — A new line. - `segment(a: LinePoint, b: LinePoint, spec?: Omit): Line3d` — A straight run between two points — the common case, and the one a debug ray wants. - `box(min: LinePoint, max: LinePoint, spec?: Omit): Line3d` — The twelve edges of an axis-aligned box, as one line. Useful enough for bounds that it is built in. - `readonly all: ReadonlyArray` — Every live line. - `enabled: boolean` — Turn the whole pass off. - `readonly drawn: number` — Segments drawn last frame. ### `Lines3dOptions` ```ts interface Lines3dOptions ``` Options for the pack. - `width?: number` — Default width in pixels for lines that do not say. Default 2. - `color?: string` — Default colour. Default `'#5cf0ff'`. - `enabled?: boolean` — Start enabled. Default true. ### `LineSpec` ```ts interface LineSpec ``` What a line looks like. - `points?: ReadonlyArray | ReadonlyArray` — The points, in order. A polyline of n points draws n−1 segments. - `color?: string` — Colour, css. Default a bright cyan. - `width?: number` — Width in SCREEN PIXELS, held constant at any distance. Default 2. - `alpha?: number` — Opacity 0..1. Default 1. - `closed?: boolean` — Join the last point back to the first. Default false. - `visible?: boolean` — Draw it. Default true. - `xray?: boolean` — Draw it THROUGH solids, as an x-ray. Default false — a line is depth-tested like everything else, so a route behind a hill is hidden by the hill. Turn it on for a debug ray or a selection edge that must be findable whatever is in front of it. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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