---
title: "Psychedelic screen distortion: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/post-trippatron"
tier: Pro
version: 3.0.0-4
released: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-20
description: "A whole-arena screen distortion of impact ripples, shimmer, curved glass, melting, RGB split and rainbow colour, with thirteen recipes and a response to impacts and sound."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/post-trippatron/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Psychedelic screen distortion: API

`@phaser-ae/post-trippatron` — Thirteen distortion recipes with strength and split comparison: heat haze, underwater, curved glass, melt, RGB split and rainbow.

## The pack

### `postTrippatron`

```ts
function postTrippatron(): Pack<{ tripPost: TripPostApi }>
```

Install a dual-backend 2D distortion pass that reacts to the pack's shared impact and audio data.

## Helpers

### `tripPostPresets`

```ts
const tripPostPresets: { readonly clean: { readonly label: "Clean screen"; readonly description: "No screen distortion. The background still animates and reacts to clicks."; readonly shimmer: 0; readonly bend: 0; ... 6 more ...; readonly audioGain: 1; }; ... 11 more ...; readonly arcade: { ...; }; } …
```

Named recipes. Apply a recipe with show() or set(), then override individual values.

## Types

### `TripPostApi`

```ts
interface TripPostApi
```

One screen distortion pass, regardless of the number of impacts.

- `show(config?: TripPostConfig): TripPostHandle` — Enable or replace the scene-scoped effect.
- `clear(): void` — Remove the active pass's effect.

### `TripPostConfig`

```ts
interface TripPostConfig
```

World-layer distortion, applied before regular post-processing and the screen-space HUD.

- `amount?: number` — Overall distortion strength, 0..1. Default 1.
- `compare?: boolean` — Compare untreated left half with distorted right half. Default false.
- `shimmer?: number` — Ambient horizontal shimmer, world units. Default 2.
- `bend?: number` — Rounded screen curvature, 0..1. Default 0.
- `melt?: number` — Downward wavy melt, world units. Default 0.
- `chroma?: number` — RGB separation in logical pixels. Default 1.
- `rainbow?: number` — Colour cycling amount 0..1. Default 0.
- `cycle?: number` — Colour cycles/sec. Default 0.15.
- `speed?: number` — Animation speed. Default 1.
- `reaction?: number` — Shared impact displacement multiplier. Default 1.
- `audioGain?: number` — Additional distortion driven by trip.audio. Default 1.

### `TripPostHandle`

```ts
interface TripPostHandle
```

Live controller returned by tripPost.show.

- `set(config: TripPostConfig): void` — Validate and apply only these settings.
- `remove(): void` — Remove this effect. Idempotent.

### `TripPostPreset`

```ts
type TripPostPreset = keyof typeof tripPostPresets
```

Key of a reusable screen-distortion recipe.

---

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