--- title: "Vector Shatter: API" package: "@phaser-ae/vector-fx" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Breaks any 2D outline into drifting, spinning line fragments that fade over their life, for the death of a rock, a ship, a shield or a letter." url: https://phaser.io/packs/vector-fx/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Vector Shatter: API `@phaser-ae/vector-fx` — The outline coming apart: break a polygon into drifting, spinning line fragments that fade over their life. ## The pack ### `vectorFx` ```ts function vectorFx(): Pack<{ vecFx: VecFxApi }> ``` The `vector-fx` pack. Pure maths, so it needs no backend and runs headless. ## Helpers ### `fragmentSegments` ```ts function fragmentSegments(frags: readonly Fragment[]): FragmentSegment[] ``` The fragments as world-space SEGMENTS, ready for the line renderer. The fragments are the game's data, and how they are drawn — colour, width, glow, whether at all — is the caller's choice. The FADE comes with them, because a shard that vanishes at full brightness is the one thing every caller would otherwise have to re-derive. ### `shatterPolygon` ```ts function shatterPolygon(worldVerts: Vec2[], opts: ShatterOptions = {}): Fragment[] ``` Break a WORLD-space polygon into line fragments that drift and spin apart: one per edge, centred on the edge's midpoint, each sent at `speed` in its own random direction. Pass world vertices (vector-2d's `shapes.transformVerts(verts, pos, rot)` makes them) — never local ones. Append the result to a `Fragment[]` you own; advance with `updateFragments`, draw with `fragmentSegments`. ### `updateFragments` ```ts function updateFragments(frags: Fragment[], dt: number): Fragment[] ``` Move and age line fragments in place, and return a new array of the survivors — reassign: `this.frags = updateFragments(this.frags, dt)`. ## Types ### `Fragment` ```ts interface Fragment ``` One drifting, spinning line segment broken off a shattered polygon; fades out as its `life` runs down. - `a: Vec2` — The first segment endpoint, relative to the fragment centre. - `b: Vec2` — The second segment endpoint, relative to the fragment centre. - `x: number` — The world x position of the fragment centre. - `y: number` — The world y position of the fragment centre. - `vx: number` — The horizontal drift speed, in pixels each second. - `vy: number` — The vertical drift speed, in pixels each second. - `rot: number` — The current rotation of the fragment, in radians. - `vrot: number` — The spin rate, in radians each second. - `life: number` — The remaining life, in seconds. Alpha fades as it falls to zero. - `maxLife: number` — The initial life, in seconds. Used to compute the fade. ### `FragmentSegment` ```ts interface FragmentSegment ``` One fragment ready to draw: its two world-space endpoints, and the fade it has reached. - `a: Vec2` — The first endpoint, in world space. - `b: Vec2` — The second endpoint, in world space. - `alpha: number` — 1 when new, falling to 0 as the fragment dies. Multiply your colour's alpha by it. ### `ShatterOptions` ```ts interface ShatterOptions ``` Tuning for `shatterPolygon`. - `speed?: number` — Drift speed of every fragment, px/s, each in its own random direction. Default 60. - `life?: number` — Fragment lifetime in seconds (alpha fades over it). Default 0.8. - `spin?: number` — Max spin rate in rad/s (each fragment gets a random spin within ±spin/2). Default 2. - `rnd?: () => number` — The random source. Pass the kernel's seeded rng and a replay shatters the same way twice; leave it out for `Math.random`, which is fine for decoration and wrong for anything a test has to reproduce. ### `Vec2` ```ts interface Vec2 ``` A 2D point or vector. Plain data, so anything can produce one. - `x: number` — Horizontal coordinate, in pixels, increasing to the right. - `y: number` — Vertical coordinate, in pixels; the 2D world is Y-down, so larger is lower on screen. ### `VecFxApi` ```ts type VecFxApi = typeof kit ``` `game.vecFx` — every function this pack carries, as one namespace. ### `VecPt` ```ts type VecPt = Vec2 ``` A point on a path — the same shape, named for what it is used as. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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