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Creates a new Arc Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Arc Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Arc Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports both fill and stroke colors.

When it renders it displays an arc shape. You can control the start and end angles of the arc, as well as if the angles are winding clockwise or anti-clockwise. With the default settings it renders as a complete circle. By changing the angles you can create other arc shapes, such as half-circles.

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Creates a new Bitmap Text Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

BitmapText objects work by taking a texture file and an XML or JSON file that describes the font structure.

During rendering for each letter of the text is rendered to the display, proportionally spaced out and aligned to match the font structure.

BitmapText objects are less flexible than Text objects, in that they have less features such as shadows, fills and the ability to use Web Fonts, however you trade this flexibility for rendering speed. You can also create visually compelling BitmapTexts by processing the font texture in an image editor, applying fills and any other effects required.

To create multi-line text insert \r, \n or \r\n escape codes into the text string.

To create a BitmapText data files you need a 3rd party app such as:

BMFont (Windows, free): http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/ Glyph Designer (OS X, commercial): http://www.71squared.com/en/glyphdesigner Littera (Web-based, free): http://kvazars.com/littera/

For most use cases it is recommended to use XML. If you wish to use JSON, the formatting should be equal to the result of converting a valid XML file through the popular X2JS library. An online tool for conversion can be found here: http://codebeautify.org/xmltojson

Note: This method will only be available if the Bitmap Text Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Blitter Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Blitter Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Circle Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

A Circle is an Arc with no defined start and end angle, making it render as a complete circle.

Note: This method will only be available if the Arc Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Container Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Container Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Curve Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Curve Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Curve Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports both fill and stroke colors.

To render a Curve Shape you must first create a Phaser.Curves.Curve object, then pass it to the Curve Shape in the constructor.

The Curve shape also has a smoothness property and corresponding setSmoothness method. This allows you to control how smooth the shape renders in WebGL, by controlling the number of iterations that take place during construction. Increase and decrease the default value for smoother, or more jagged, shapes.

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DOM Element Game Objects are a way to control and manipulate HTML Elements over the top of your game.

In order for DOM Elements to display you have to enable them by adding the following to your game configuration object:

dom {
  createContainer: true
}

When this is added, Phaser will automatically create a DOM Container div that is positioned over the top of the game canvas. This div is sized to match the canvas, and if the canvas size changes, as a result of settings within the Scale Manager, the dom container is resized accordingly.

You can create a DOM Element by either passing in DOMStrings, or by passing in a reference to an existing Element that you wish to be placed under the control of Phaser. For example:

this.add.dom(x, y, 'div', 'background-color: lime; width: 220px; height: 100px; font: 48px Arial', 'Phaser');

The above code will insert a div element into the DOM Container at the given x/y coordinate. The DOMString in the 4th argument sets the initial CSS style of the div and the final argument is the inner text. In this case, it will create a lime colored div that is 220px by 100px in size with the text Phaser in it, in an Arial font.

You should nearly always, without exception, use explicitly sized HTML Elements, in order to fully control alignment and positioning of the elements next to regular game content.

Rather than specify the CSS and HTML directly you can use the load.html File Loader to load it into the cache and then use the createFromCache method instead. You can also use createFromHTML and various other methods available in this class to help construct your elements.

Once the element has been created you can then control it like you would any other Game Object. You can set its position, scale, rotation, alpha and other properties. It will move as the main Scene Camera moves and be clipped at the edge of the canvas. It's important to remember some limitations of DOM Elements: The obvious one is that they appear above or below your game canvas. You cannot blend them into the display list, meaning you cannot have a DOM Element, then a Sprite, then another DOM Element behind it.

They also cannot be enabled for input. To do that, you have to use the addListener method to add native event listeners directly. The final limitation is to do with cameras. The DOM Container is sized to match the game canvas entirely and clipped accordingly. DOM Elements respect camera scrolling and scrollFactor settings, but if you change the size of the camera so it no longer matches the size of the canvas, they won't be clipped accordingly.

Also, all DOM Elements are inserted into the same DOM Container, regardless of which Scene they are created in.

DOM Elements are a powerful way to align native HTML with your Phaser Game Objects. For example, you can insert a login form for a multiplayer game directly into your title screen. Or a text input box for a highscore table. Or a banner ad from a 3rd party service. Or perhaps you'd like to use them for high resolution text display and UI. The choice is up to you, just remember that you're dealing with standard HTML and CSS floating over the top of your game, and should treat it accordingly.

Note: This method will only be available if the DOM Element Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Dynamic Bitmap Text Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

BitmapText objects work by taking a texture file and an XML or JSON file that describes the font structure.

During rendering for each letter of the text is rendered to the display, proportionally spaced out and aligned to match the font structure.

Dynamic Bitmap Text objects are different from Static Bitmap Text in that they invoke a callback for each letter being rendered during the render pass. This callback allows you to manipulate the properties of each letter being rendered, such as its position, scale or tint, allowing you to create interesting effects like jiggling text, which can't be done with Static text. This means that Dynamic Text takes more processing time, so only use them if you require the callback ability they have.

BitmapText objects are less flexible than Text objects, in that they have less features such as shadows, fills and the ability to use Web Fonts, however you trade this flexibility for rendering speed. You can also create visually compelling BitmapTexts by processing the font texture in an image editor, applying fills and any other effects required.

To create multi-line text insert \r, \n or \r\n escape codes into the text string.

To create a BitmapText data files you need a 3rd party app such as:

BMFont (Windows, free): http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/ Glyph Designer (OS X, commercial): http://www.71squared.com/en/glyphdesigner Littera (Web-based, free): http://kvazars.com/littera/

For most use cases it is recommended to use XML. If you wish to use JSON, the formatting should be equal to the result of converting a valid XML file through the popular X2JS library. An online tool for conversion can be found here: http://codebeautify.org/xmltojson

Note: This method will only be available if the Dynamic Bitmap Text Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Ellipse Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Ellipse Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Ellipse Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports both fill and stroke colors.

When it renders it displays an ellipse shape. You can control the width and height of the ellipse. If the width and height match it will render as a circle. If the width is less than the height, it will look more like an egg shape.

The Ellipse shape also has a smoothness property and corresponding setSmoothness method. This allows you to control how smooth the shape renders in WebGL, by controlling the number of iterations that take place during construction. Increase and decrease the default value for smoother, or more jagged, shapes.

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Adds an existing Game Object to this Scene.

If the Game Object renders, it will be added to the Display List. If it has a preUpdate method, it will be added to the Update List.

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Creates a new Extern Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Extern Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new PathFollower Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the PathFollower Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Graphics Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Graphics Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Grid Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Grid Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Grid Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports only fill colors and cannot be stroked.

A Grid Shape allows you to display a grid in your game, where you can control the size of the grid as well as the width and height of the grid cells. You can set a fill color for each grid cell as well as an alternate fill color. When the alternate fill color is set then the grid cells will alternate the fill colors as they render, creating a chess-board effect. You can also optionally have an outline fill color. If set, this draws lines between the grid cells in the given color. If you specify an outline color with an alpha of zero, then it will draw the cells spaced out, but without the lines between them.

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Creates a new Group Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Group Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Image Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Image Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new IsoBox Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the IsoBox Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The IsoBox Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports only fill colors and cannot be stroked.

An IsoBox is an 'isometric' rectangle. Each face of it has a different fill color. You can set the color of the top, left and right faces of the rectangle respectively. You can also choose which of the faces are rendered via the showTop, showLeft and showRight properties.

You cannot view an IsoBox from under-neath, however you can change the 'angle' by setting the projection property.

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Creates a new IsoTriangle Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the IsoTriangle Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The IsoTriangle Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports only fill colors and cannot be stroked.

An IsoTriangle is an 'isometric' triangle. Think of it like a pyramid. Each face has a different fill color. You can set the color of the top, left and right faces of the triangle respectively You can also choose which of the faces are rendered via the showTop, showLeft and showRight properties.

You cannot view an IsoTriangle from under-neath, however you can change the 'angle' by setting the projection property. The reversed property controls if the IsoTriangle is rendered upside down or not.

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Creates a new Layer Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Layer Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Line Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Line Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Line Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports only stroke colors and cannot be filled.

A Line Shape allows you to draw a line between two points in your game. You can control the stroke color and thickness of the line. In WebGL only you can also specify a different thickness for the start and end of the line, allowing you to render lines that taper-off.

If you need to draw multiple lines in a sequence you may wish to use the Polygon Shape instead.

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Creates a new Particle Emitter Manager Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Particles Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Path Object.

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Creates a new Point Light Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Point Light Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Point Light Game Object provides a way to add a point light effect into your game, without the expensive shader processing requirements of the traditional Light Game Object.

The difference is that the Point Light renders using a custom shader, designed to give the impression of a point light source, of variable radius, intensity and color, in your game. However, unlike the Light Game Object, it does not impact any other Game Objects, or use their normal maps for calcuations. This makes them extremely fast to render compared to Lights and perfect for special effects, such as flickering torches or muzzle flashes.

For maximum performance you should batch Point Light Game Objects together. This means ensuring they follow each other consecutively on the display list. Ideally, use a Layer Game Object and then add just Point Lights to it, so that it can batch together the rendering of the lights. You don't have to do this, and if you've only a handful of Point Lights in your game then it's perfectly safe to mix them into the dislay list as normal. However, if you're using a large number of them, please consider how they are mixed into the display list.

The renderer will automatically cull Point Lights. Those with a radius that does not intersect with the Camera will be skipped in the rendering list. This happens automatically and the culled state is refreshed every frame, for every camera.

The origin of a Point Light is always 0.5 and it cannot be changed.

Point Lights are a WebGL only feature and do not have a Canvas counterpart.

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Creates a new Polygon Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Polygon Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Polygon Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports both fill and stroke colors.

The Polygon Shape is created by providing a list of points, which are then used to create an internal Polygon geometry object. The points can be set from a variety of formats:

• An array of Point or Vector2 objects: [new Phaser.Math.Vector2(x1, y1), ...]
• An array of objects with public x/y properties: [obj1, obj2, ...]
• An array of paired numbers that represent point coordinates: [x1,y1, x2,y2, ...]
• An array of arrays with two elements representing x/y coordinates: [[x1, y1], [x2, y2], ...]

By default the x and y coordinates of this Shape refer to the center of it. However, depending on the coordinates of the points provided, the final shape may be rendered offset from its origin.

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Creates a new Rectangle Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Rectangle Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Rectangle Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports both fill and stroke colors.

You can change the size of the rectangle by changing the width and height properties.

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Creates a new Render Texture Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Render Texture Game Object has been built into Phaser.

A Render Texture is a special texture that allows any number of Game Objects to be drawn to it. You can take many complex objects and draw them all to this one texture, which can they be used as the texture for other Game Object's. It's a way to generate dynamic textures at run-time that are WebGL friendly and don't invoke expensive GPU uploads.

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Creates a new Sprite Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Sprite Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Star Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Star Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Star Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports both fill and stroke colors.

As the name implies, the Star shape will display a star in your game. You can control several aspects of it including the number of points that constitute the star. The default is 5. If you change it to 4 it will render as a diamond. If you increase them, you'll get a more spiky star shape.

You can also control the inner and outer radius, which is how 'long' each point of the star is. Modify these values to create more interesting shapes.

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Creates a new Text Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

A Text Game Object.

Text objects work by creating their own internal hidden Canvas and then renders text to it using the standard Canvas fillText API. It then creates a texture from this canvas which is rendered to your game during the render pass.

Because it uses the Canvas API you can take advantage of all the features this offers, such as applying gradient fills to the text, or strokes, shadows and more. You can also use custom fonts loaded externally, such as Google or TypeKit Web fonts.

You can only display fonts that are currently loaded and available to the browser: therefore fonts must be pre-loaded. Phaser does not do ths for you, so you will require the use of a 3rd party font loader, or have the fonts ready available in the CSS on the page in which your Phaser game resides.

See this for the available default fonts across mobile browsers.

A note on performance: Every time the contents of a Text object changes, i.e. changing the text being displayed, or the style of the text, it needs to remake the Text canvas, and if on WebGL, re-upload the new texture to the GPU. This can be an expensive operation if used often, or with large quantities of Text objects in your game. If you run into performance issues you would be better off using Bitmap Text instead, as it benefits from batching and avoids expensive Canvas API calls.

Note: This method will only be available if the Text Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new TileSprite Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the TileSprite Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a Tilemap from the given key or data, or creates a blank Tilemap if no key/data provided. When loading from CSV or a 2D array, you should specify the tileWidth & tileHeight. When parsing from a map from Tiled, the tileWidth, tileHeight, width & height will be pulled from the map data. For an empty map, you should specify tileWidth, tileHeight, width & height.

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Creates a new Triangle Shape Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Triangle Game Object has been built into Phaser.

The Triangle Shape is a Game Object that can be added to a Scene, Group or Container. You can treat it like any other Game Object in your game, such as tweening it, scaling it, or enabling it for input or physics. It provides a quick and easy way for you to render this shape in your game without using a texture, while still taking advantage of being fully batched in WebGL.

This shape supports both fill and stroke colors.

The Triangle consists of 3 lines, joining up to form a triangular shape. You can control the position of each point of these lines. The triangle is always closed and cannot have an open face. If you require that, consider using a Polygon instead.

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Creates a new Tween object.

Note: This method will only be available if Tweens have been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Video Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Video Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Creates a new Zone Game Object and adds it to the Scene.

Note: This method will only be available if the Zone Game Object has been built into Phaser.

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Static method called directly by the Game Object factory functions. With this method you can register a custom GameObject factory in the GameObjectFactory, providing a name (factoryType) and the constructor (factoryFunction) in order to be called when you call to Phaser.Scene.add[ factoryType ] method.

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Static method called directly by the Game Object factory functions. With this method you can remove a custom GameObject factory registered in the GameObjectFactory, providing a its factoryType.