---
title: "Crumpled paper texture: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/ui-texture-paper"
tier: Free
version: 3.0.0-1
released: 2026-10-18
updated: 2026-10-19
description: "A tiling crumpled-paper texture, generated in grey at startup, for ui panels, buttons and sprites, so notes, maps and parchment take their colour from the style."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/ui-texture-paper/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Crumpled paper texture: API

`@phaser-ae/ui-texture-paper` — A tiling crumpled-paper texture for ui styles and sprites: warped facets catching the light, a soft roll and fibres, in grey to tint.

## The pack

### `uiTexturePaper`

```ts
function uiTexturePaper(options: UiTexturePaperOptions = {}): Pack<{}>
```

Pack `ui-texture-paper`: paints the crumpled-paper texture once, as the picture `ui-texture-paper` (or
`ui-texture-<name>`), for a ui style's `texture: 'paper'` — or any sprite's. Needs no other pack.

## Helpers

### `paperTexture`

```ts
function paperTexture(options: UiTexturePaperOptions = {}): { size: number; data: Uint8ClampedArray<ArrayBuffer> }
```

The paper as RGBA bytes, `size` × `size`, grey around mid grey so a style's colour tints it, tiling seamlessly both
ways. Pure and deterministic: the same options give the same pixels.

## Types

### `UiTexturePaperOptions`

```ts
interface UiTexturePaperOptions
```

How the paper is crumpled. Every field optional.

- `name?: string` — The picture is `ui-texture-<name>`, and a style says `texture: '<name>'`. Default 'paper'.
- `size?: number` — The tile's side, px. Default 256.
- `crumple?: number` — How hard it was crumpled, 0 (smooth) to 1 (balled up). Default 0.6.
- `fibres?: number` — Fibres and specks, 0..1. Default 0.5.
- `seed?: number` — Changes the creases without changing their kind. Default 1.

---

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