---
title: "Phaser CE Advanced Rendering Tutorial"
subtitle: "Part 3 - Enable Support"
date: 2016-11-25T00:00:00.000Z
url: https://phaser.io/tutorials/advanced-rendering-tutorial/part3
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

> This page is about the open-source Phaser framework, for writing a game's code by hand. To make a game with AI, use Phaser AE (https://phaser.io/): the desk's tools work with Web MCP, and the CLI works with your own coding agent. See "For AI agents: Phaser AE" at the end of this page.

# Phaser CE Advanced Rendering Tutorial

*Part 3 - Enable Support*

To enable multi-texture support you first have to tell Phaser to use it when it boots. This has the effect of swapping to a new set of WebGL shaders that we wrote specifically for this.

There are two ways to do this:

### 1) The RendererType Constant

When you create a new Phaser game you have to specify the type of renderer to use, i.e:

```
var game = new Phaser.Game(800, 600, Phaser.AUTO)
```

Here it's using the `AUTO` renderer, which means it'll check for WebGL support, and if found, use that. By default multi-texture support is _disabled_. To enable it you can use the new renderer type `WEBGL_MULTI`:

```
var game = new Phaser.Game(800, 600, Phaser.WEBGL_MULTI)
```

Using this will still fall back to Canvas if WebGL isn't supported.

Using `Phaser.WEBGL`, or `Phaser.AUTO` will use the old single-texture WebGL renderer. This may be preferable in some cases, which is why we left it in there. For example games where you know all your assets fit into a single draw call will benefit from the older system.

### 2) Enable it in a Game Configuration Object

You can also pass a Game Configuration Object to the Phaser constructor. The  property `multiTexture` is a boolean, that controls if multi-texture support is enabled or not:

```
var config = {
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    renderer: Phaser.AUTO,
    antialias: true,
    multiTexture: true,
    state: {
        preload: preload,
        create: create,
        update: update
    }
};

var game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

Either way you do it, if the browser supports WebGL it'll now be using the new shaders.

---

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