---
title: "Vector Lines: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/vector-2d"
tier: Free
version: 3.0.0-6
released: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-20
description: "A line-art renderer for vector games, drawing masses of glowing, antialiased segments in one instanced draw, with retained shapes, fills, trails, star fields, bursts and one-call shatter."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/vector-2d/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Vector Lines: API

`@phaser-ae/vector-2d` — First-class line art: masses of independent segments in one instanced draw, with a phosphor halo.

## The pack

### `vector2d`

```ts
function vector2d(opts: Vector2dOptions = {}): Pack<{ vector: Vector2dApi }>
```

The `vector-2d` pack: retained and immediate line art with a phosphor halo, solid faces, trails,
starfields and line-art particles — one instanced draw for the lot. Supports the WebGPU and WebGL2 backends.

## Helpers

### `resolveVecColor`

```ts
function resolveVecColor(src: VecColorSource, i: number): string
```

Resolve a colour source for item `i`. Pure.

## Functions

### `buildFill`

```ts
function buildFill(points: readonly VecPt[], fill: VecFillSource | undefined): number[]
```

An outline turned into a triangle list: `x, y, r, g, b, a` per vertex, in the shape's own space.

Returns an empty list — not a white face — for anything that means "no fill". `'transparent'`, `'none'`,
a fully transparent colour and fewer than three points all take that path.

### `buildFillWgsl`

```ts
function buildFillWgsl(): string
```

The FILL shader — solid faces under the line art. A triangulated outline, one vertex at a time: a position
in the shape's own space, its transform slot, a depth and a colour PER VERTEX, which is what gives the
gradient with no extra uniform and no second pass. It shares the line pass's transform table, so a filled
shape moves for the same eight floats.

DEPTH is the point of it. The fill pass WRITES depth where the line pass only tests it, so a nearer filled
shape hides both the fills and the lines behind it — corridors, hulls, a web with solid lanes.

### `buildLineWgsl`

```ts
function buildLineWgsl(stamp = false): string
```

Assemble the line shader. `stamp` picks the glow-stamp variant. Pure string work, so a test can read the
two variants without a GPU.

### `centroid`

```ts
function centroid(points: readonly VecPt[]): VecPt
```

The centroid of a path — where a shatter flies away from.

### `chainJoins`

```ts
function chainJoins(points: readonly VecPt[], closed = false): Float32Array
```

{@link segJoins} for a path rather than a segment list.

### `clipToScissor`

```ts
function clipToScissor( clip: VecClipRect, viewX: number, viewY: number, viewW: number, viewH: number, pxW: number, pxH: number, ): { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number } | null
```

A world clip rect turned into an integer pixel SCISSOR on a `pxW × pxH` target, given the view rect the
layer drew with. `null` means none of the rect is on the target, so the whole draw can be skipped.

Pure, and that is the point: the HALF-RES glow target runs the same arithmetic against its own size. A halo
clipped to a different rectangle than the line that cast it is the bug this exists to prevent.

### `fragmentAlpha`

```ts
function fragmentAlpha(age: number, life: number): number
```

Fragment alpha over age: hold, then fade the last 40%. A piece that fades from the instant it spawns reads as weak.

### `outlineSegs`

```ts
function outlineSegs(shape: { parts?: ReadonlyArray<{ x: number; y: number; rot: number; scale: number; segs: ReadonlyArray<readonly [VecPt, VecPt]> }>; segs?: ReadonlyArray<readonly [VecPt, VecPt]>; }): Array<[VecPt, VecPt]>
```

Every segment of a shape in the SHAPE's own space, each part's local transform already baked in. The one
place anything outside the renderer should read a shape's geometry — physics binds to shapes in headless
tests where there is no device to build a real one.

### `particleOutline`

```ts
function particleOutline(kind: VecShapeKind, circleSides = 10): Array<[VecPt, VecPt]>
```

The outline for one particle kind, centred on the origin at RADIUS 1 — the per-particle size is its scale.

### `partToShape`

```ts
function partToShape(part: { x: number; y: number; rot: number; scale: number }, p: VecPt): VecPt
```

A point in a PART's own space, lifted into its SHAPE's space.

### `polySegs`

```ts
function polySegs(points: readonly VecPt[], closed = false): Array<[VecPt, VecPt]>
```

Expand a polyline into segment endpoint pairs; `closed` joins the last point back to the first.

### `rampColor`

```ts
function rampColor(ramp: VecRamp, t: number, cyclic: boolean): string
```

The colour of a ramp at `t` along it, 0..1. A CYCLIC ramp — a closed outline's — wraps from its last stop back
to its first, so the join where the path closes has no seam; an open one runs first to last. `t` outside 0..1
wraps either way, which is what lets a shifted ramp run round a path for ever.

### `segJoins`

```ts
function segJoins(segs: ReadonlyArray<readonly [VecPt, VecPt]>): Float32Array
```

Where each segment should be CUT so neighbours abut instead of overlapping — four floats a segment, in the
same order {@link polySegs} produced them.

Each segment end carries the inward normal of the plane it is cut on. The two segments meeting at a joint
share ONE plane — the angle bisector — and take opposite sides of it. Between them they still tile the whole
join, each contributing half of the round cap, so the picture is unchanged while every pixel is painted
exactly once.

That is the difference between this and cutting each segment square across its own end, which is the obvious
thing to try and NOTCHES every corner: two perpendicular cuts leave an uncovered wedge between them, where
one shared plane has no space between its two sides.

Painting once is what makes ALPHA work on an outline. Overlapping caps blend twice, so at alpha 0.35 a joint
reaches 1 − 0.65² = 0.58 while the rest of the line sits at 0.35, and every corner beads. Fully opaque lines
never showed it, because drawing the same colour over itself changes nothing.

A free end — either end of an open chain — gets a zero normal, which the shader reads as "no cut" and leaves
as a round cap.

### `shapeOrigin`

```ts
function shapeOrigin(s: { x: number; y: number; rot: number; scale: number; pivot: VecPt | null }): VecPt
```

Where a shape's transform actually puts its origin, with `pivot` folded in.

The shader only knows `world = R·S·local + T`; there is no pivot in it. Turning about an arbitrary point is
that same transform with a different `T`, so the whole feature lives here and costs nothing per vertex:

    world(p) = R·S·(p − pivot) + pivot + xy  =  R·S·p + (xy + pivot − R·S·pivot)

The pivot itself therefore lands at exactly `(x + pivot.x, y + pivot.y)` — which is the point a shatter
should burst from.

### `shatter`

```ts
function shatter(segs: ReadonlyArray<readonly [VecPt, VecPt]>, opts: { speed?: number; spin?: number; life?: number; rnd?: () => number } = {}): Shard[]
```

Break an outline into shards, each flying away from the centroid with a spin. The speed is scaled by how far
the piece already was from the middle, so a long shape comes apart lengthways rather than as a uniform puff.

### `spawnFragment`

```ts
function spawnFragment( x: number, y: number, dirX: number, dirY: number, opts: { speed?: number; spin?: number; life?: number }, rand: () => number, ): VecFragment
```

Spawn kinematics for one shattered segment. The transform sits ON the segment's world MIDPOINT, so its
spin turns the piece about its own centre rather than orbiting the shape's origin, and it flies along the
outward unit direction with jitter and spin from `rand`.

### `stepFragment`

```ts
function stepFragment(f: VecFragment, dt: number, drag = 0.4, gravity = 0): boolean
```

Advance one fragment. Returns false once it has expired.

### `stepShard`

```ts
function stepShard(s: Shard, dt: number, drag = 0.6): boolean
```

Advance a shard. Returns false once it has lived its life.

### `vectorStampRadius`

```ts
function vectorStampRadius(width: number, glow: number, glowWidth?: number): number
```

A segment's halo radius, world units: 0 when `glow` is 0 or less; `width/2 + 1 + glow*2` with no `glowWidth`; else `width/2` times `glowWidth` (at least 1).

### `worldToLocal`

```ts
function worldToLocal( s: { x: number; y: number; rot: number; scale: number; pivot: VecPt | null }, wx: number, wy: number, ): VecPt | null
```

A WORLD point mapped into a shape's LOCAL space — the inverse of the transform the shader applies.

Doing it this way round is the whole performance story: transforming the OUTLINE is O(n) per shape per
query, while inverting the POINT is O(1) and the outline is then tested exactly as it was authored.

With `c = cos(rot)·scale` and `n = sin(rot)·scale`, `R·S` is `[[c, −n], [n, c]]`, whose determinant is
`scale²`, so the inverse is `[[c, n], [−n, c]] / scale²`. Null for a degenerate scale of 0 — the shape
occupies no area, so nothing can be inside it.

## Classes

### `VecStarfield`

```ts
class VecStarfield
```

A drifting or warping star field. Every public field is live.

- `mode: VecStarMode` — `'drift'` scrolls a flat field; `'warp'` flies into the screen.
- `bounds: { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number } | null` — The rectangle the field lives in, or null to follow the layer's view.
- `speed: number` — DRIFT: world units each second for the nearest layer. WARP: depth units each second.
- `angle: number` — DRIFT: the direction of travel, radians.
- `origin: { x: number; y: number } | null` — WARP: the vanishing point, or null for the centre of the rect.
- `focal: number` — WARP: the focal length.
- `near: number` — WARP: the nearest depth before a star recycles.
- `far: number` — WARP: the depth stars spawn at.
- `bend: { x: number; y: number } | ((t: number, time: number) => { x: number; y: number }) | null` — WARP: a constant lean, or a function for a curved tunnel.
- `spin: number` — WARP: the roll about `origin`, radians each second.
- `size: number` — The star size at the nearest depth.
- `streak: number` — The tail length, in seconds of travel.
- `color: string` — The star colour.
- `colors: VecColorSource | null` — A colour source indexed per star, or null.
- `glow: number` — The halo intensity.
- `z: number | undefined` — The depth for the vector pass.
- `dead: boolean` — True after `kill()`. The layer drops a dead field.
- `readonly stars: VecStar[]` — Every star, live. Move them, cull them, sort them — it is an array.
- `each: ((s: VecStar, dt: number, field: VecStarfield) => void) | null` — Run over every star each step, after the built-in motion and before the draw.
- `get layers(): number` — DRIFT parallax layers. Assign at any time; the field re-layers on the spot. Sets the layer count, rounded to a whole number and floored at 0; 0 or 1 gives one flat layer. Stars are re-dealt to layers immediately.
- `set layers(n: number)` — DRIFT parallax layers. Assign at any time; the field re-layers on the spot. Sets the layer count, rounded to a whole number and floored at 0; 0 or 1 gives one flat layer. Stars are re-dealt to layers immediately.
- `constructor(private host: StarHost, o: VecStarfieldOptions = {})` — Built through `game.vector.starfield()`.
- `get rect(): { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }` — The rectangle in play — the explicit `bounds`, else the live view.
- `resize(count: number): void` — Grow or shrink the field, keeping the stars already placed.
- `reset(): void` — Re-scatter every star — a new level, a jump, a different sky.
- `kill(): void` — Remove the field from the layer.
- `step(dt: number): void` — Move every star on and recycle the ones that leave. The layer calls it each frame.
- `emit(): void` — Push the field's segments at the host. The layer calls it each frame.

### `VecTrail`

```ts
class VecTrail
```

A ribbon behind a moving thing. Every field is live: change any of them between frames.

- `length: number` — Samples kept.
- `minDist: number` — Minimum world distance between samples.
- `maxDist: number` — The longest move one sample may span; 0 is off.
- `life: number` — Seconds a sample lives; 0 is length-bound only.
- `width: number` — Stroke width at the head.
- `tailWidth: number` — Stroke width at the tail.
- `alpha: number` — Alpha at the head.
- `tailAlpha: number` — Alpha at the tail.
- `color: string` — Colour at the head.
- `tailColor: string | null` — Colour to grade toward at the tail, or null for one colour.
- `colors: VecColorSource | null` — A colour source stepped along the ribbon, or null.
- `glow: number` — Halo intensity at the head.
- `dwell: number` — Beam dwell 0..1.
- `z: number | undefined` — Depth.
- `dead: boolean` — True after `kill()`. The layer drops a dead trail.
- `constructor(private host: TrailHost, o: VecTrailOptions = {})` — Built through `game.vector.trail()`.
- `get count(): number` — How many samples it is holding.
- `get points(): readonly VecPt[]` — The samples, oldest first.
- `push(x: number, y: number): void` — Feed it the mover's position — once a frame is right.
- `clear(): void` — Drop every sample — a teleport, so the ribbon does not smear across it.
- `kill(): void` — Stop drawing it and let the layer forget it.
- `step(dt: number): void` — Age the samples out. The layer calls it; call it yourself only off-layer.
- `emit(): void` — Push the ribbon's segments at the host. The layer calls it each frame.

## Constants

### `FILL_FLOATS`

```ts
const FILL_FLOATS: 8
```

Floats one filled vertex packs to: position with depth and slot, then rgba.

### `FILL_WGSL`

```ts
const FILL_WGSL: string
```

The fill shader, built once and exported so a test can read it and a fill pass can share the transform table.

### `LINE_FLOATS`

```ts
const LINE_FLOATS: 24
```

Floats one segment instance packs to: six vec4s.

### `resolvePoints`

```ts
const resolvePoints = (p: VecPoints): readonly VecPt[]=> …
```

Resolve a point source to its array.

### `XFORM_FLOATS`

```ts
const XFORM_FLOATS: 8
```

Floats one transform slot packs to: two vec4s.

## Types

### `Shard`

```ts
interface Shard
```

One piece of a shattered outline: its own transform, drifting and spinning away.

- `x: number` — Where the piece is now, relative to the shape's own origin.
- `y: number` — And its y.
- `vx: number` — Its drift, world units a second.
- `vy: number` — And its y drift.
- `spin: number` — Its turn, radians a second.
- `rot: number` — Its rotation now.
- `age: number` — Seconds lived.
- `life: number` — How long it lives.

### `StarHost`

```ts
interface StarHost
```

Where a starfield pushes its segments, and the view it lays out against.

- `seg(x0: number, y0: number, x1: number, y1: number, style: VecStylePatch): void` — Pushes one line segment from (x0, y0) to (x1, y1), in world units, drawn with the given style; a zero-length segment is a dot.
- `readonly viewRect: { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }` — The view being drawn, so an unbounded field follows a resize.

### `TrailHost`

```ts
interface TrailHost
```

Where a trail pushes its segments — the layer, or a test double.

- `seg(x0: number, y0: number, x1: number, y1: number, style: VecStylePatch): void` — Pushes one line segment from (x0, y0) to (x1, y1), in world units, drawn with the given style.

### `VecClipRect`

```ts
interface VecClipRect
```

A clip rectangle, in WORLD units.

- `x: number` — The left edge.
- `y: number` — The top edge.
- `w: number` — The width.
- `h: number` — The height.

### `VecColorSource`

```ts
type VecColorSource = | 'rainbow' | (string & {}) | readonly string[] | ((i: number) => string) | { hue: readonly [number, number]; step?: number; sat?: number; val?: number } | { from: string; to: string; step?: number }
```

Where a per-item colour comes from.

- `'rainbow'` — walk the hue wheel
- any other string — one flat colour
- `string[]` — cycle an explicit palette
- `(i) => string` — anything else; `i` is the item's index in the run
- `{ hue: [from, to], step?, sat?, val? }` — an arc of the wheel, walked and folded so it cycles
- `{ from, to, step? }` — ping-pong between two literal colours, so a run never jumps

`step` is DEGREES PER ITEM and defaults to 1, so a burst of `count` spans `count × step` degrees. Raise it
to fan one burst across the wheel; leave it at 1 for a stream that cycles gradually.

### `VecEmitOptions`

```ts
interface VecEmitOptions
```

A burst of line-art particles.

- `x: number` — The x centre of the burst. Required.
- `y: number` — The y centre of the burst. Required.
- `count?: number` — Particles in the burst. Default 12.
- `shape?: VecShapeKind | readonly VecShapeKind[]` — The outline to cut them from — one kind, or an array to mix per particle. Default `'square'`.
- `size?: number` — Radius in world units. Default 6.
- `sizeVar?: number` — Random size variation, ± world units. Default 2.
- `speed?: number` — Initial speed. Default 90.
- `speedVar?: number` — Random speed variation, ± world units each second. Default 40.
- `angle?: number` — Direction, radians. Default 0.
- `spread?: number` — The arc the directions spread across, radians. Default a full circle.
- `even?: boolean` — Space the angles EVENLY across the spread — a clean ring or fan rather than a scatter.
- `spawnRadius?: number` — Jitter the spawn point within this radius. Default 0.
- `spin?: number` — Random spin up to ±spin rad/s. Default 3.
- `life?: number` — Seconds. Default 1.2.
- `lifeVar?: number` — Random life variation, ± seconds. Default 0.4.
- `drag?: number` — Velocity damping each second. Default 0.4.
- `gravity?: number` — Downward acceleration. Default 0; negative rises.
- `shrink?: number` — Final size as a fraction of the start. Default 1; 0 shrinks to nothing.
- `style?: VecStyle` — The line look — the same style a shape takes.
- `colors?: VecColorSource` — A colour per particle. The cursor lives on the LAYER, so a per-frame stream keeps walking the wheel.
- `circleSides?: number` — Segments per circle. Default 10. Fewer is chunkier and cheaper.

### `VecFaceOptions`

```ts
interface VecFaceOptions
```

What an immediate FACE takes. No width and no glow: a face has neither, and offering them would lie.

- `alpha?: number` — Multiplies the face colour's own alpha, exactly as it does for a stroke. Default 1.
- `z?: number` — Depth within the layer, 0..1. Default 0.
- `screen?: boolean` — Draw in SCREEN space rather than world space. Default false.

### `VecFill`

```ts
interface VecFill
```

A solid face under an outline. A bare string is a flat colour; an array is a multi-stop ramp.

- `color?: string` — The face colour, or the first stop of a ramp. `'transparent'` and `'none'` mean no face at all.
- `to?: string` — The far end of a two-stop ramp.
- `stops?: readonly string[]` — Three or more stops, evenly spaced along the ramp. Beats `color`/`to`.
- `angle?: number` — Ramp direction in SHAPE-LOCAL radians. Default 0, left to right.
- `radial?: boolean` — Ramp outward from the centre instead of along an axis.

### `VecFillSource`

```ts
type VecFillSource = string | readonly string[] | VecFill | null
```

Anything a caller may pass where a fill is wanted.

### `VecFragment`

```ts
interface VecFragment
```

One drifting, spinning piece — a shard of a shattered outline, or a particle from a burst.

- `x: number` — World x.
- `y: number` — World y.
- `rot: number` — Rotation, radians.
- `scale: number` — Scale factor.
- `vx: number` — World units each second, x.
- `vy: number` — World units each second, y.
- `spin: number` — Radians each second.
- `age: number` — Seconds lived so far.
- `life: number` — Total seconds it lives.

### `VecHitOptions`

```ts
interface VecHitOptions
```

How {@link VecShape.contains } decides a hit.

- `tolerance?: number` — Slop in WORLD units, added around the stroke. Default 6 — about a fingertip at a normal world height. A 2-unit line is otherwise nearly impossible to click.
- `mode?: 'auto' | 'fill' | 'stroke'` — `'auto'` (default) — inside a CLOSED outline counts, and so does being within `tolerance` of the stroke. An OPEN polyline has no interior, so it is stroke-only. This is what a drag handle wants. `'fill'` — interior only; a closed outline behaves like a solid face and the stroke is not separately grabbable. An open path never hits. `'stroke'` — proximity to the line only; the middle of a closed shape is a miss. This is the Star Castle case: a shot passes THROUGH the ring and kills only the section it actually crossed.

### `VecPartHandle`

```ts
interface VecPartHandle
```

One live part of a shape.

- `x: number` — Offset within the shape. Live.
- `y: number` — Offset within the shape. Live.
- `rot: number` — Turned on top of the shape's rotation. Live.
- `scale: number` — Multiplied with the shape's scale. Live.
- `readonly name: string | null` — Its handle, or null.
- `setPoints(points: VecPoints, closed?: boolean): void` — Replace this part's outline.
- `readonly points: readonly VecPt[]` — The points it holds.
- `restyle(style: Partial<VecStyle> & { fill?: VecFillSource; ramp?: VecRamp | null; rampShift?: number }): void` — Restyle just this part.
- `slotFor(origin: VecPt, c: number, n: number): { x: number; y: number; rot: number; scale: number }` — WHERE THIS PART ACTUALLY SITS, given the shape's world origin and its rotation folded with its scale as `c = cos(rot) * scale` and `n = sin(rot) * scale`. The renderer's own slot maths, exposed — a debug overlay that recomputes it by hand is a second copy that will disagree.

### `VecPartOptions`

```ts
interface VecPartOptions extends VecStyle
```

One outline inside a MULTI-PART shape.

A part carries its own geometry, its own style, its own fill and its own place within the shape. Anything
it does not set falls back to the shape's, so parts that share a look say nothing. This is how a lander
gets a hull, a flame and two legs that all turn together but recolour separately.

- `points: VecPoints` — This part's outline — an array, or a factory that returns one.
- `fill?: VecFillSource` — This part's solid face. Falls back to the shape's.
- `closed?: boolean` — Does the outline close? Default true.
- `x?: number` — Offset within the shape, in the shape's own point space.
- `y?: number` — The y offset within the shape.
- `rot?: number` — Turned about the part's own origin, on top of the shape's rotation.
- `scale?: number` — Multiplied with the shape's scale.
- `name?: string` — A handle, so `shape.part('leftLeg')` beats an array index.
- `ramp?: VecRamp | null` — A colour run along this part's WHOLE outline. Falls back to the shape's. See {@link VecShapeOptions.ramp}.
- `rampShift?: number` — Turns the ramp along the outline, 0..1. Falls back to the shape's.

### `VecPoints`

```ts
type VecPoints = readonly VecPt[] | (() => readonly VecPt[])
```

Points, or something that makes them.

Every place that takes an outline takes this, so a shape factory goes straight in —
`shape(() => star(5, 40, 18))` — with no array built first. It is called ONCE, when the outline is built;
it is not a per-frame hook.

### `VecPt`

```ts
interface VecPt
```

A point on a path.

- `x: number` — Horizontal position in world units (pixels at the default view); grows rightward.
- `y: number` — Vertical position in world units (pixels at the default view); grows downward.

### `VecRamp`

```ts
type VecRamp = readonly string[] | 'rainbow'
```

A colour run along a whole outline: stops evenly spaced along it, or the hue wheel.

### `VecShape`

```ts
interface VecShape
```

A retained shape: one or more outlines under one transform.

- `x: number` — Position x. Live.
- `y: number` — Position y. Live.
- `rot: number` — Rotation, radians. Live.
- `scale: number` — Uniform scale. Live.
- `alpha: number` — A multiplier over every segment's alpha. Live.
- `glow: number` — A multiplier over every segment's glow. Live.
- `visible: boolean` — Whether it draws at all.
- `pivot: VecPt | null` — The point it turns and scales about, in point space, or null for the point origin. Live.
- `wrap: { w: number; h: number } | null` — The wrap size, or null. Live — set or clear it at any time.
- `setPoints(points: VecPoints, closed?: boolean): void` — Replace the outline — re-packs only this shape, so a crater can be blown in a terrain.
- `readonly points: readonly VecPt[]` — The points it currently holds — the FIRST part's, on a multi-part shape.
- `readonly parts: readonly VecPartHandle[]` — Its parts, in order. A single-outline shape has exactly one.
- `part(name: string): VecPartHandle | null` — One part by name, or null.
- `restyle(style: Partial<VecStyle> & { fill?: VecFillSource; ramp?: VecRamp | null; rampShift?: number }): void` — Change the look without rebuilding the geometry.
- `contains(wx: number, wy: number, opts?: VecHitOptions): boolean` — Is a world point on or inside it? Ghost copies count.
- `bounds(): { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }` — Its world-space bounding box, from the points themselves rather than a rotated local box.
- `shatter(opts?: { speed?: number; spin?: number; life?: number; drag?: number }): void` — BREAK IT APART. Every segment re-parents to its own drifting, spinning transform and fades over `life`, then the shape removes itself. The death of every rock, ship and shield in the vector canon. `drag` (default 0.6) is how fast the pieces slow down: turn it up and the debris settles close in, turn it down and it keeps going.
- `readonly shattering: boolean` — True while it is shattering.
- `kill(): void` — Remove it.
- `revive(): this` — Put a killed shape back, un-shattered.
- `readonly alive: boolean` — True until killed.

### `VecShapeKind`

```ts
type VecShapeKind = 'line' | 'triangle' | 'square' | 'diamond' | 'circle' | 'cross' | 'star'
```

The outline a vector particle is cut from.

### `VecShapeOptions`

```ts
interface VecShapeOptions extends VecStyle
```

Everything `shape()` takes: the line style, plus the transform, the face, the pivot and the wrap.

- `x?: number` — World x, measured from the pivot. Default 0.
- `y?: number` — World y, measured from the pivot. Default 0.
- `rot?: number` — Rotation about the pivot, radians. Default 0.
- `scale?: number` — Scale about the pivot. Default 1.
- `closed?: boolean` — Join the last point back to the first. Default true.
- `fill?: VecFillSource` — A solid face under the outline.
- `pivot?: VecPt | null` — The point the shape turns and scales about, in POINT space. Null (the default) is the point origin. It costs nothing per vertex — see {@link shapeOrigin}.
- `wrap?: { w: number; h: number } | null` — Draw three GHOST copies at ±w, ±h — the Asteroids wrap, where a rock straddling the edge appears on both sides at once. Keep the position itself in range yourself; this only draws the copies.
- `ramp?: VecRamp | null` — A colour run along the WHOLE outline by arc length — stops evenly spaced from the first point round the path, or `'rainbow'` for the hue wheel. `color2` grades each SEGMENT on its own, so on a chain it repeats at every joint and reads as banding; a ramp grades the path once. A closed outline's ramp wraps back to its first stop, so there is no seam. Beats `color` / `color2` on the stroke.
- `rampShift?: number` — Turns the ramp along the outline, 0..1. Restyle it each frame for a running colour cycle. Default 0.

### `VecStar`

```ts
interface VecStar
```

One star.

- `x: number` — DRIFT: world x. WARP: lateral offset from the tunnel axis, before projection.
- `y: number` — DRIFT: world y. WARP: vertical offset from the tunnel axis, before projection.
- `z: number` — DRIFT: which layer, 0 (nearest, full speed) to 1 (farthest). WARP: depth in world units.

### `VecStarfieldOptions`

```ts
interface VecStarfieldOptions
```

Tuning for `game.vector.starfield()`.

- `count?: number` — How many stars. Default 240.
- `mode?: VecStarMode` — Default `'drift'`.
- `bounds?: { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number } | null` — The rectangle the field lives in. Default: the layer's current view, so it follows a resize.
- `speed?: number` — DRIFT: world units each second for the nearest layer. WARP: depth units each second. Negative reverses. Default 60.
- `angle?: number` — DRIFT: direction of travel, radians. 0 is right, +y is down. Default 0.
- `layers?: number` — DRIFT: parallax layers. Default 4; 0 or 1 makes one flat layer.
- `origin?: { x: number; y: number } | null` — WARP: the vanishing point. Default the centre of `bounds`.
- `focal?: number` — WARP: focal length in world units. Default 260; bigger is a narrower field.
- `near?: number` — WARP: nearest depth before a star recycles. Default 12.
- `far?: number` — WARP: the depth stars spawn at. Default 900.
- `bend?: { x: number; y: number } | ((t: number, time: number) => { x: number; y: number }) | null` — WARP: a constant sideways lean, or `(t, time) => offset` for a curved tunnel.
- `spin?: number` — WARP: roll the whole field about `origin`, radians each second.
- `size?: number` — Star size at the nearest depth. Default 2.2.
- `streak?: number` — Tail length, in SECONDS of travel. 0 (the default) draws plain dots.
- `color?: string` — Star colour. Default white.
- `colors?: VecColorSource | null` — A colour source indexed per star, for a mixed-temperature sky. Resolved when a star spawns.
- `glow?: number` — Halo intensity. Default 0.5.
- `z?: number` — Depth for the vector pass. Default: behind everything else in the layer.
- `rng?: () => number` — Deterministic layouts — pass the game's seeded rng.

### `VecStarMode`

```ts
type VecStarMode = 'drift' | 'warp'
```

`'drift'` scrolls a flat field; `'warp'` flies into the screen.

### `VecStyle`

```ts
interface VecStyle
```

How a shape or a segment is drawn.

- `color?: string` — Colour, css. Default white.
- `color2?: string` — A second colour, so the line runs as a gradient from `color` to this.
- `alpha?: number` — Opacity 0..1. Default 1.
- `width?: number` — Core width in world units. Under 1 it is a HAIRLINE and joins are cut square. Default 1.5.
- `glow?: number` — Phosphor halo brightness, 0 for a bare crisp line. Default 0.
- `glowWidth?: number` — Halo radius as a multiple of the core's half-width, at least 1. Omitted: the radius is `width/2 + 1 + glow*2`.
- `dash?: number` — Dash period in world units, 0 for solid. Default 0.
- `dwell?: number` — BEAM DWELL 0..1 — how much the ends of a stroke burn brighter and fatter, as a real display's beam decelerates into a turn. Scaled per end by how sharply the line actually turns. Default 0.
- `z?: number` — Depth 0..1; a larger number draws in front. Default 0.
- `screen?: boolean` — Draw in SCREEN pixels rather than world units — a HUD, a joystick, a hotbar. Immediate only (`seg`, `poly`, `arc`, `text`): a HUD is redrawn every frame anyway, and a retained screen shape would want its own transform table for no gain. Retained shapes, bursts, trails and star fields ignore it.

### `VecStylePatch`

```ts
type VecStylePatch = { [K in keyof VecStyle]: VecStyle[K] | undefined }
```

A style whose fields may be CLEARED as well as set.

Anything that reuses ONE style object across many segments — a trail's ribbon, a starfield's stars — needs
to unset a field between them (`color2` on a graded trail is the case that forces it), and
`exactOptionalPropertyTypes` refuses `undefined` on a plain optional field. Reusing the object is the
point: a thousand stars then cost no allocation at all.

### `Vector2dApi`

```ts
interface Vector2dApi
```

`game.vector`.

- `shape(points: VecPoints | readonly VecPartOptions[], style?: VecShapeOptions): VecShape` — A retained shape from a path, or from a list of PARTS.
- `seg(x1: number, y1: number, x2: number, y2: number, style?: VecStyle): void` — One segment, this frame only.
- `poly(points: readonly VecPt[], style?: VecStyle & { closed?: boolean }): void` — A path, this frame only.
- `arc(cx: number, cy: number, r: number, from: number, to: number, style?: VecStyle, steps?: number): void` — An arc, this frame only. `from` and `to` are RADIANS — a full circle is `0, Math.PI * 2`, and 360 here is fifty-seven turns.
- `fill(points: readonly VecPt[], fill: VecFillSource, opts?: VecFaceOptions): void` — A SOLID FACE, this frame only — the filled counterpart of `poly`. Flat colour, a two-stop ramp or a multi-stop one, exactly as a retained shape's `fill` takes. Reach for it whenever the face is TRANSLUCENT. The old idiom for a filled disc — an arc of radius `r/2` stroked `r` wide — is a fan of segments that overlap heavily toward the centre, so a face asked for at 7% alpha composites with itself forty times over and comes out solid. It is exact at alpha 1 and wrong at every other alpha, with nothing said. This is one layer of triangles at the alpha asked for.
- `disc(cx: number, cy: number, r: number, fill: VecFillSource, opts?: VecFaceOptions, steps?: number): void` — A filled circle, this frame only — `fill()` over a circle of `steps` segments (default 48).
- `text(str: string, x: number, y: number, opts?: VecTextOptions & { style?: VecStyle }): void` — STROKED TEXT, this frame only — the vector font, drawn as line art like everything else.
- `emit(opts: VecEmitOptions): void` — A burst of line-art particles.
- `trail(opts?: VecTrailOptions): VecTrail` — A ribbon behind a moving thing.
- `starfield(opts?: VecStarfieldOptions): VecStarfield` — A drifting or warping star field.
- `hit(wx: number, wy: number, opts?: VecHitOptions): VecShape | null` — The topmost shape under a world point, or null.
- `hitAll(wx: number, wy: number, opts?: VecHitOptions): VecShape[]` — Every shape under a world point, topmost first.
- `readonly all: readonly VecShape[]` — Every live shape.
- `clear(): void` — Remove them all — shapes, trails, fields and live particles.
- `clip: VecClipRect | null` — Restrict the layer to a world rectangle, or null for none. Live.
- `glow: number` — A multiplier over every glow in the layer. Live.
- `glowSize: number` — How far the halo reaches, logical pixels. Live.
- `enabled: boolean` — Turn the layer off.
- `readonly segments: number` — Segments SUBMITTED last frame — retained, immediate and particle alike. What the game asked for, counted whether or not a backend was there to draw it.
- `readonly shapes: number` — Live retained shapes.
- `readonly fragments: number` — Pieces currently flying from a `shatter()`. Watch it spike and fall back to zero.
- `readonly particles: number` — Live particles from `emit`.
- `setRng(rng: () => number): void` — Use a seeded generator for bursts and shatters, so a replay matches.
- `readonly viewRect: { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }` — The view rectangle the layer last drew with, in world units.

### `Vector2dOptions`

```ts
interface Vector2dOptions
```

Manifest options.

- `glow?: number` — A multiplier over every glow in the layer. Default 1.
- `glowSize?: number` — How far the halo reaches, in logical pixels. Default 16.
- `enabled?: boolean` — Whether the layer draws. Default true.

### `VecTrailOptions`

```ts
interface VecTrailOptions
```

Tuning for `game.vector.trail()`.

- `length?: number` — Samples kept. Default 40. The oldest is the tail.
- `minDist?: number` — Minimum world distance between samples. Default 4. Below it a move folds into the head.
- `maxDist?: number` — The longest move one sample may span. 0 (the default) turns the split off.
- `life?: number` — Seconds a sample survives. 0 (the default) makes the trail length-bound only.
- `width?: number` — Stroke width at the head. Default 5.
- `tailWidth?: number` — Stroke width at the tail. Default 0.
- `alpha?: number` — Alpha at the head. Default 1.
- `tailAlpha?: number` — Alpha at the tail. Default 0.
- `color?: string` — Colour at the head. Default white.
- `tailColor?: string` — The colour to grade toward at the tail — a colour change, not a fade.
- `colors?: VecColorSource` — A colour source stepped along the ribbon. Beats `color`.
- `glow?: number` — Halo intensity at the head; it fades out with the alpha. Default 0.7.
- `dwell?: number` — Beam dwell 0..1. Default 0.
- `z?: number` — Depth, as on any line.

---

## For AI agents: Phaser AE

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