---
title: "Render texture: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/render-texture"
tier: Free
version: 3.0.0-5
released: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-20
description: "Draw shapes, lines, text and sprites onto a sprite of your own, for minimaps, radars, health bars, charts and procedural panels drawn from data."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/render-texture/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Render texture: API

`@phaser-ae/render-texture` — Draw verbs on one object: a sprite whose frame is a canvas you paint with rect, line, circle, text and sprite; it shows from the next frame.

## The pack

### `renderTexture`

```ts
function renderTexture(): Pack<{ texture: RenderTextureApi }>
```

The render-texture pack: v2's draw verbs, each gated behind a roster object (Law 2). No options. Requires a 2D world.

## Types

### `RenderTextureApi`

```ts
interface RenderTextureApi
```

`game.texture`.

- `create(spec: TextureSpec): TextureHandle` — Spawn a texture object and return its painter. Throws if `OffscreenCanvas` is unavailable (a headless runtime without it).

### `TextureDef`

```ts
interface TextureDef extends RenderTextureApi
```

What render-texture registers under 'texture' for other packs (core-2d's graphics).

- `readonly name: 'texture'` — Its registry name.

### `TextureHandle`

```ts
interface TextureHandle
```

The painter: the verbs paint a canvas, which shows from the next frame. Coordinates are texture pixels, origin top-left. Every verb returns the handle.

- `readonly handle: Handle` — The roster handle of the sprite: move it, tint it, tween it, kill it.
- `readonly width: number` — Texture width in pixels.
- `readonly height: number` — Texture height in pixels.
- `clear(color?: string): this` — Wipe to transparent, or fill with a CSS colour.
- `rect(x: number, y: number, w: number, h: number, color: string, alpha?: number, rot?: number): this` — A filled rectangle from its top-left; `rot` in radians about its centre; `alpha` 0..1, default 1.
- `line(x0: number, y0: number, x1: number, y1: number, width: number, color: string, alpha?: number): this` — A round-capped stroke; `width` in pixels.
- `poly(points: ReadonlyArray<{ x: number; y: number }>, width: number, color: string, alpha?: number, closed?: boolean): this` — A stroked polyline, round joins; `closed` joins the last point to the first. Fewer than two points draws nothing.
- `fill(points: ReadonlyArray<{ x: number; y: number }>, color: string, alpha?: number): this` — A filled polygon. Fewer than three points draws nothing.
- `circle(cx: number, cy: number, r: number, color: string, alpha?: number): this` — A filled disc of radius `r` pixels.
- `ring(cx: number, cy: number, r: number, thickness: number, color: string, alpha?: number): this` — A stroked circle; `thickness` in pixels, centred on the radius.
- `text(str: string, x: number, y: number, opts?: { font?: string; color?: string; align?: CanvasTextAlign; baseline?: CanvasTextBaseline; alpha?: number }): this` — Canvas text: a CSS font string (default '16px sans-serif'), a colour (default '#ffffff'), an alignment (default left, top).
- `sprite(frame: number, x: number, y: number, w?: number, h?: number, opts?: { rot?: number; alpha?: number; tint?: string }): this` — Paint a frame (on any atlas page, or a picture's own texture) centred at x,y; `w`/`h` default to the frame's size, `rot` in radians, `tint` multiplies the pixels. A copy: an animated frame does not stay live.
- `draw(fn: (ctx: import('@phaser-ae/kernel').PaintContext) => void): this` — The escape hatch: paint with the 2D context yourself.
- `flush(): this` — Push the paint to the GPU now. Not needed: what is painted shows from the next frame on its own.
- `destroy(): void` — Remove the object; the same as `handle.kill()`.
- `readonly flushes: number` — Frames flushed so far.

### `TextureSpec`

```ts
interface TextureSpec
```

What `create` spawns: the texture's size, and the sprite fields of the object that carries it.

- `id?: string` — The object's id. Default 'texture'.
- `width?: number` — Texture width in pixels; rounded, minimum 1. Default: the screen's width. A big texture gets a texture of its own; a small one shares the atlas.
- `height?: number` — Texture height in pixels; rounded, minimum 1. Default: the screen's height.
- `x?: number` — The object's centre, world or screen units by layer. Default 0, or the screen's centre for a screen-sized texture.
- `y?: number` — The object's centre, world or screen units by layer. Default 0, or the screen's centre for a screen-sized texture.
- `layer?: string` — The draw layer; the world's default when omitted.
- `clear?: boolean` — Start transparent where nothing is painted. Default true.
- `tags?: string[]` — Tags on the object. Default ['texture'].
- `visible?: boolean` — Whether the object draws. Default true.

---

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