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Use this skill for post-processing effects, custom shaders, blend modes and colour grading in melonJS. Covers the built-in ShaderEffect presets, addPostEffect on renderables and cameras, writing a custom dual-language GLSL/WGSL effect, the screen_texture builtins, and why effects
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Use this skill for post-processing effects, custom shaders, blend modes and colour grading in melonJS. Covers the built-in ShaderEffect presets, addPostEffect on renderables and cameras, writing a custom dual-language GLSL/WGSL effect, the screen_texture builtins, and why effects silently do nothing on the Canvas fallback. Triggers on: Tween, easing, animate an effect, ShaderEffect, addPostEffect, removePostEffect, getPostEffect, postEffectNeedsCapture, VignetteEffect, GlowEffect, BlurEffect, PixelateEffect, ScanlineEffect, shader, GLSL, WGSL, uniform, setUniform, setTexture, setTime, blendMode, colorMatrix, screen_texture, toFrameTexture, post effect, filter.
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Post effects and custom shaders
melonJS ships a catalogue of post effects and a dual-language shader system. The recurring trap is that every shader path needs a GPU backend and degrades to nothing on Canvas rather than erroring. Blend modes are the exception — those work on all three renderers.
Applying an effect
Effects attach to a renderable or to a camera (for full-screen grading):
import { VignetteEffect, GlowEffect } from "melonjs";
sprite.addPostEffect(new GlowEffect(app.renderer));
app.viewport.addPostEffect(new VignetteEffect(app.renderer));
renderable.shader = … is deprecated since 19.2.0, and its setter destroys
whatever it replaces. Use addPostEffect / getPostEffect / removePostEffect.
A camera effect covers the HUD too
A camera's post-effect brackets the entire world draw — floating children included. So the obvious way to write a full-screen pass also washes over every HUD label in that world, which is rarely what you want.
To land a pass after the world but before the HUD, host the effect on a screen-filling floating renderable ordered below the HUD's z instead:
const quad = new Sprite(0, 0, { image: anyImage });
quad.anchorPoint.set(0, 0);
quad.scale(viewW / anyImage.width, viewH / anyImage.height);
quad.floating = true; // its own uv is now screen space
quad.blendMode = "additive";
quad.addPostEffect(myEffect);
world.addChild(quad, HUD_Z - 10); // 2D: below the labels. See the note.
Two things follow from the quad filling the frame: its own uv is screen space
(so a pass like this needs none of the screen_uv / screen_texture builtins),
and the incoming color is the quad's own texture, which a body that paints
from scratch can ignore entirely.
Depth here is easy to get backwards, and the rule FLIPS between the two sort
modes. Under the default sortOn = "z" a higher z draws later, i.e. on top,
so HUD_Z - 10 puts the pass under the labels as written above. Under
sortOn = "depth", which every Camera3d scene sets, a floating child's sort
key is pos.z * pos.z and the walk paints far to near, so the SMALLER
magnitude is nearer and draws on top — HUD_Z - 10 there puts the pass OVER
the labels, the opposite of the comment.
So in a 3D scene give the overlay a larger magnitude than the HUD, and give
the HUD a small one (melonjs-3d and melonjs-ui-and-text both say a HUD
wants a small depth, not the huge z that would put it on top in 2D).
Either way, verify it rather than reasoning about it: return a flat colour from the body for one frame and see what it tints.
A renderable that draws with PRIMITIVES has to ask to be captured
One effect is applied the cheap way: the renderable is drawn with the effect's
own program instead of being captured offscreen and post-processed, which costs
no render target. That is equivalent only when everything the renderable draws
is a textured quad. fillRect, strokeRect and renderer.fill(shape) go
through a batcher that never reads that shader, so one effect on such a
renderable would silently do nothing, while two would work, because a chain
always captures.
So a renderable of your own that draws with primitives says so:
class Bar extends Renderable {
constructor(x, y, w, h) {
super(x, y, w, h);
this.postEffectNeedsCapture = true; // ← or one effect is a no-op
}
draw(renderer) {
renderer.fillRect(this.pos.x, this.pos.y, this.width, this.height);
}
}
ProgressBar and Trail set it for you, and a sprite needs nothing: the flag
defaults to false and only ever changes the single-effect case.
Toggle with enabled, do not remove
removePostEffect() destroys the effect — it calls effect.destroy() and
frees GPU resources, so the instance cannot be re-added. Same for
clearPostEffects() and for reassigning the deprecated .shader.
// ✗ destroys it; re-adding later fails or forces a recompile
sprite.removePostEffect(effect);
// ✓
effect.enabled = false;
An effect with effect.shared === true opts out of auto-destroy because it is
reused across renderables.
Built-in effects
Twenty-three presets, every one constructed as new XEffect(renderer, options)
and every one shipping both a GLSL and a WGSL body, so they all run on either
GPU backend: VignetteEffect, ScanlineEffect (optional CRT curvature),
BloomEffect, GlowEffect, BlurEffect, PixelateEffect,
ChromaticAberrationEffect, DropShadowEffect, FlashEffect,
OutlineEffect, ColorMatrixEffect, DesaturateEffect, DissolveEffect,
TintPulseEffect, WaveEffect, SwayEffect, InvertEffect, SepiaEffect,
HologramEffect, ShineEffect, RadialGradientEffect, SquishEffect,
ToneMappingEffect.
Colors take an alpha. Every color option and setColor takes [r, g, b]
or [r, g, b, a], each 0.0 to 1.0, and the alpha is the color's own opacity: a
half-transparent outline, a glow at half strength, a flash that only half
covers. [r, g, b] is opaque, as it always was. Any other length throws.
RadialGradientEffect takes a Color instead, and its alpha scales the spot.
sprite.addPostEffect(new OutlineEffect(app.renderer, { color: [1, 1, 1, 0.5] }));
On a sprite cut from an atlas or a tileset, the effects that read around a
pixel keep to the sprite's own frame. GlowEffect, OutlineEffect,
BlurEffect, DropShadowEffect, ChromaticAberrationEffect, WaveEffect,
SwayEffect, PixelateEffect and BloomEffect read the neighbouring frames
as transparent, as if the sprite were drawn on its own, so they never show
along its edges and the atlas needs no padding for them. Past the texture's own
edge (a standalone image, or the outside of an atlas) nothing changes.
The effects that place a pattern place it on the renderable they draw.
SwayEffect's planted row, WaveEffect's anchor, the centre of
VignetteEffect, RadialGradientEffect and ScanlineEffect's curvature all
land on the sprite itself: cut from an atlas, flipped, rotated, or with other
effects after it, the pattern sits where it sits on a sprite with a texture of
its own and that one effect. What is measured in the texture stays measured in
it: ShineEffect's sweep, bands and width, WaveEffect's amplitude and
frequency, DissolveEffect's grain, the lines of HologramEffect and
ScanlineEffect (on an atlas sprite, fractions of the atlas, so a single shine
crosses an atlas sprite only part of the time). With other effects after them
they all stay on the sprite. SwayEffect measures everything across the
sprite.
Their widths, offsets and sizes are in pixels of the texture they draw, with
nothing to pass. Each of those effects takes the size of what it draws: the
sprite's whole texture (the atlas image, not the frame), the screen for a
camera's effect, a mesh's texture. With other effects after it, it still
measures in the sprite's own pixels, at any scale and under a camera's zoom
(on a container, in the container's own), so adding a second effect never
changes how wide the first comes out. Do not pass textureSize to get this: a
textureSize (or setTextureSize()) fixes the size instead, for a width
meant in some other texture's pixels.
// 2 pixels of the sprite's art, whatever the size of its atlas, its scale,
// the camera's zoom, or the effects after it
sprite.addPostEffect(new OutlineEffect(app.renderer, { width: 2 }));
sprite.addPostEffect(new GlowEffect(app.renderer, { width: 6 }));
With two or more effects, the sprite is drawn into a capture and each effect
reads that, at the game's texture filter, as a sprite reads its own texture:
under "nearest" (or antiAlias off) a width that lands between two screen
pixels, such as 2 pixels of a sprite drawn at 0.3, stays crisp, and under
"linear" it blends, on WebGL and WebGPU alike. The result lands inside the
clip the sprite is drawn under, a minimap camera's view or a clipping
container, as with one effect.
SwayEffect leans a sprite or a layer from side to side, as if in a breeze: the
top sways most and everything from its anchor row down stays put, so a tree's
trunk or a reed's root stays planted. It suits anything planted at its bottom;
something hanging from its top, like a banner, needs its own shader. It is a
WaveEffect, which takes the same anchor, so it adds no shader. Drive it with
setTime(seconds) every frame, like any time-based effect; it wraps the phase
itself, so a raw clock never costs precision on a phone's medium-precision
floats.
const sway = new SwayEffect(app.renderer, { strength: 0.02, anchor: 0.9 });
tree.addPostEffect(sway);
// each frame
sway.setTime(timer.getTime() / 1000);
Its strength (a fraction of the sprite's width), its anchor and how it bends
are all measured across the sprite, so a sprite cut from an atlas sways exactly
like the same art with a texture of its own. WaveEffect's anchor is a row of
the sprite too, but its amplitude and frequency are measured across the texture,
so on an atlas sprite they are fractions of the atlas.
RadialGradientEffect is a procedural soft spot: solid at the centre of the
renderable it draws, fading linearly to transparent at the edge, and elliptical
for free on a non-square one. It is the one to reach for instead of baking a
disc into a canvas, for a pickup highlight, a trigger marker or a damage flash,
on a standalone image, Renderer.getWhitePixel() or a sprite cut from an atlas
alike.
SquishEffect bulges a sprite's middle out (setBulge(0.3)) or pinches it in
(setBulge(-0.3)), its top and bottom rows staying put. Bulging out widens the
sprite past its own frame, and the effect draws on a wider quad to make room,
so the art needs no transparent margin. On its own it is a jelly wobble; paired
with a change of height it is squash and stretch that keeps the volume:
scale the sprite to scaleY of its height about its feet and set the bulge to
1 - scaleY, so a stretched sprite pinches in and a squashed one bulges out.
Ease scaleY back to 1 with a short Tween.Easing.Back.Out; an elastic ease
keeps it trembling long after the landing.
const squish = new SquishEffect(app.renderer);
player.addPostEffect(squish);
// every frame, from the player's update()
const feet = player.height * (1 - player.anchorPoint.y);
player.currentTransform
.identity()
.translate(0, feet)
.scale(1, scaleY)
.translate(0, -feet);
squish.setBulge(1 - scaleY);
Apply that from the sprite's own update(), not from a tween's onUpdate. A
physics adapter that mirrors a body's angle (Matter does) rewrites
currentTransform on every step, before the renderables update, so a scale set
anywhere else is gone by the time the sprite is drawn. Let the tween animate a
plain { scaleY } object and read it in update().
It is made for a sprite carrying it as its only effect: chained with another, or on the camera, the frame it measures against is the whole capture, so it squishes the whole frame. The bulge is outside the sprite's bounds, so culling and pointer events ignore it.
BloomEffect and GlowEffect are not the same thing, and reachi
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name: melonjs-effects-and-shaders description: "Use this skill for post-processing effects, custom shaders, blend modes and colour grading in melonJS. Covers the built-in ShaderEffect presets, addPostEffect on renderables and cameras, writing a custom dual-language GLSL/WGSL effect, the screen_texture builtins, and why effects silently do nothing on the Canvas fallback. Triggers on: Tween, easing, animate an effect, ShaderEffect, addPostEffect, removePostEffect, getPostEffect, postEffectNeedsCapture, VignetteEffect, GlowEffect, BlurEffect, PixelateEffect, ScanlineEffect, shader, GLSL, WGSL, uniform, setUniform, setTexture, setTime, blendMode, colorMatrix, screen_texture, toFrameTexture, post effect, filter." license: MIT
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name: melonjs-effects-and-shaders
description: "Use this skill for post-processing effects, custom shaders, blend modes and colour grading in melonJS. Covers the built-in ShaderEffect presets, addPostEffect on renderables and cameras, writing a custom dual-language GLSL/WGSL effect, the screen_texture builtins, and why effects silently do nothing on the Canvas fallback. Triggers on: Tween, easing, animate an effect, ShaderEffect, addPostEffect, removePostEffect, getPostEffect, postEffectNeedsCapture, VignetteEffect, GlowEffect, BlurEffect, PixelateEffect, ScanlineEffect, shader, GLSL, WGSL, uniform, setUniform, setTexture, setTime, blendMode, colorMatrix, screen_texture, toFrameTexture, post effect, filter."
license: MIT
---
# Post effects and custom shaders
> melonJS ships a catalogue of post effects and a dual-language shader system.
> The recurring trap is that every shader path needs a GPU backend and
> **degrades to nothing** on Canvas rather than erroring. Blend modes are the
> exception — those work on all three renderers.
## Applying an effect
Effects attach to a renderable **or** to a camera (for full-screen grading):
```js
import { VignetteEffect, GlowEffect } from "melonjs";
sprite.addPostEffect(new GlowEffect(app.renderer));
app.viewport.addPostEffect(new VignetteEffect(app.renderer));
```
`renderable.shader = …` is **deprecated since 19.2.0**, and its setter destroys
whatever it replaces. Use `addPostEffect` / `getPostEffect` / `removePostEffect`.
### A camera effect covers the HUD too
A camera's post-effect brackets the **entire** world draw — floating children
included. So the obvious way to write a full-screen pass also washes over every
HUD label in that world, which is rarely what you want.
To land a pass *after* the world but *before* the HUD, host the effect on a
screen-filling floating renderable ordered below the HUD's z instead:
```js
const quad = new Sprite(0, 0, { image: anyImage });
quad.anchorPoint.set(0, 0);
quad.scale(viewW / anyImage.width, viewH / anyImage.height);
quad.floating = true; // its own uv is now screen space
quad.blendMode = "additive";
quad.addPostEffect(myEffect);
world.addChild(quad, HUD_Z - 10); // 2D: below the labels. See the note.
```
Two things follow from the quad filling the frame: its own `uv` is screen space
(so a pass like this needs none of the `screen_uv` / `screen_texture` builtins),
and the incoming `color` is the quad's own texture, which a body that paints
from scratch can ignore entirely.
**Depth here is easy to get backwards, and the rule FLIPS between the two sort
modes.** Under the default `sortOn = "z"` a higher z draws later, i.e. on top,
so `HUD_Z - 10` puts the pass under the labels as written above. Under
`sortOn = "depth"`, which every `Camera3d` scene sets, a floating child's sort
key is `pos.z * pos.z` and the walk paints far to near, so the SMALLER
magnitude is nearer and draws on top — `HUD_Z - 10` there puts the pass OVER
the labels, the opposite of the comment.
So in a 3D scene give the overlay a larger magnitude than the HUD, and give
the HUD a small one (`melonjs-3d` and `melonjs-ui-and-text` both say a HUD
wants a small depth, not the huge z that would put it on top in 2D).
Either way, verify it rather than reasoning about it: return a flat colour from
the body for one frame and see what it tints.
## A renderable that draws with PRIMITIVES has to ask to be captured
One effect is applied the cheap way: the renderable is drawn with the effect's
own program instead of being captured offscreen and post-processed, which costs
no render target. That is equivalent only when everything the renderable draws
is a textured quad. `fillRect`, `strokeRect` and `renderer.fill(shape)` go
through a batcher that never reads that shader, so **one** effect on such a
renderable would silently do nothing, while **two** would work, because a chain
always captures.
So a renderable of your own that draws with primitives says so:
```js
class Bar extends Renderable {
constructor(x, y, w, h) {
super(x, y, w, h);
this.postEffectNeedsCapture = true; // ← or one effect is a no-op
}
draw(renderer) {
renderer.fillRect(this.pos.x, this.pos.y, this.width, this.height);
}
}
```
`ProgressBar` and `Trail` set it for you, and a sprite needs nothing: the flag
defaults to `false` and only ever changes the single-effect case.
## Toggle with `enabled`, do not remove
**`removePostEffect()` destroys the effect** — it calls `effect.destroy()` and
frees GPU resources, so the instance cannot be re-added. Same for
`clearPostEffects()` and for reassigning the deprecated `.shader`.
```js
// ✗ destroys it; re-adding later fails or forces a recompile
sprite.removePostEffect(effect);
// ✓
effect.enabled = false;
```
An effect with `effect.shared === true` opts out of auto-destroy because it is
reused across renderables.
## Built-in effects
Twenty-three presets, every one constructed as `new XEffect(renderer, options)`
and every one shipping both a GLSL and a WGSL body, so they all run on either
GPU backend: `VignetteEffect`, `ScanlineEffect` (optional CRT curvature),
`BloomEffect`, `GlowEffect`, `BlurEffect`, `PixelateEffect`,
`ChromaticAberrationEffect`, `DropShadowEffect`, `FlashEffect`,
`OutlineEffect`, `ColorMatrixEffect`, `DesaturateEffect`, `DissolveEffect`,
`TintPulseEffect`, `WaveEffect`, `SwayEffect`, `InvertEffect`, `SepiaEffect`,
`HologramEffect`, `ShineEffect`, `RadialGradientEffect`, `SquishEffect`,
`ToneMappingEffect`.
**Colors take an alpha.** Every color option and `setColor` takes `[r, g, b]`
or `[r, g, b, a]`, each 0.0 to 1.0, and the alpha is the color's own opacity: a
half-transparent outline, a glow at half strength, a flash that only half
covers. `[r, g, b]` is opaque, as it always was. Any other length throws.
`RadialGradientEffect` takes a `Color` instead, and its alpha scales the spot.
```js
sprite.addPostEffect(new OutlineEffect(app.renderer, { color: [1, 1, 1, 0.5] }));
```
**On a sprite cut from an atlas or a tileset, the effects that read around a
pixel keep to the sprite's own frame.** `GlowEffect`, `OutlineEffect`,
`BlurEffect`, `DropShadowEffect`, `ChromaticAberrationEffect`, `WaveEffect`,
`SwayEffect`, `PixelateEffect` and `BloomEffect` read the neighbouring frames
as transparent, as if the sprite were drawn on its own, so they never show
along its edges and the atlas needs no padding for them. Past the texture's own
edge (a standalone image, or the outside of an atlas) nothing changes.
**The effects that place a pattern place it on the renderable they draw.**
`SwayEffect`'s planted row, `WaveEffect`'s `anchor`, the centre of
`VignetteEffect`, `RadialGradientEffect` and `ScanlineEffect`'s curvature all
land on the sprite itself: cut from an atlas, flipped, rotated, or with other
effects after it, the pattern sits where it sits on a sprite with a texture of
its own and that one effect. What is measured in the texture stays measured in
it: `ShineEffect`'s sweep, bands and width, `WaveEffect`'s amplitude and
frequency, `DissolveEffect`'s grain, the lines of `HologramEffect` and
`ScanlineEffect` (on an atlas sprite, fractions of the atlas, so a single shine
crosses an atlas sprite only part of the time). With other effects after them
they all stay on the sprite. `SwayEffect` measures everything across the
sprite.
**Their widths, offsets and sizes are in pixels of the texture they draw, with
nothing to pass.** Each of those effects takes the size of what it draws: the
sprite's whole texture (the atlas image, not the frame), the screen for a
camera's effect, a mesh's texture. With other effects after it, it still
measures in the sprite's own pixels, at any scale and under a camera's zoom
(on a container, in the container's own), so adding a second effect never
changes how wide the first comes out. Do not pass `textureSize` to get this: a
`textureSize` (or `setTextureSize()`) fixes the size instead, for a width
meant in some other texture's pixels.
```js
// 2 pixels of the sprite's art, whatever the size of its atlas, its scale,
// the camera's zoom, or the effects after it
sprite.addPostEffect(new OutlineEffect(app.renderer, { width: 2 }));
sprite.addPostEffect(new GlowEffect(app.renderer, { width: 6 }));
```
With two or more effects, the sprite is drawn into a capture and each effect
reads that, at the game's texture filter, as a sprite reads its own texture:
under `"nearest"` (or `antiAlias` off) a width that lands between two screen
pixels, such as 2 pixels of a sprite drawn at 0.3, stays crisp, and under
`"linear"` it blends, on WebGL and WebGPU alike. The result lands inside the
clip the sprite is drawn under, a minimap camera's view or a clipping
container, as with one effect.
`SwayEffect` leans a sprite or a layer from side to side, as if in a breeze: the
top sways most and everything from its `anchor` row down stays put, so a tree's
trunk or a reed's root stays planted. It suits anything planted at its bottom;
something hanging from its top, like a banner, needs its own shader. It is a
`WaveEffect`, which takes the same `anchor`, so it adds no shader. Drive it with
`setTime(seconds)` every frame, like any time-based effect; it wraps the phase
itself, so a raw clock never costs precision on a phone's medium-precision
floats.
```js
const sway = new SwayEffect(app.renderer, { strength: 0.02, anchor: 0.9 });
tree.addPostEffect(sway);
// each frame
sway.setTime(timer.getTime() / 1000);
```
Its strength (a fraction of the sprite's width), its `anchor` and how it bends
are all measured across the sprite, so a sprite cut from an atlas sways exactly
like the same art with a texture of its own. `WaveEffect`'s `anchor` is a row of
the sprite too, but its amplitude and frequency are measured across the texture,
so on an atlas sprite they are fractions of the atlas.
`RadialGradientEffect` is a procedural soft spot: solid at the centre of the
renderable it draws, fading linearly to transparent at the edge, and elliptical
for free on a non-square one. It is the one to reach for instead of baking a
disc into a canvas, for a pickup highlight, a trigger marker or a damage flash,
on a standalone image, `Renderer.getWhitePixel()` or a sprite cut from an atlas
alike.
`SquishEffect` bulges a sprite's middle out (`setBulge(0.3)`) or pinches it in
(`setBulge(-0.3)`), its top and bottom rows staying put. Bulging out widens the
sprite past its own frame, and the effect draws on a wider quad to make room,
so the art needs no transparent margin. On its own it is a jelly wobble; paired
with a change of height it is **squash and stretch that keeps the volume**:
scale the sprite to `scaleY` of its height about its feet and set the bulge to
`1 - scaleY`, so a stretched sprite pinches in and a squashed one bulges out.
Ease `scaleY` back to 1 with a short `Tween.Easing.Back.Out`; an elastic ease
keeps it trembling long after the landing.
```js
const squish = new SquishEffect(app.renderer);
player.addPostEffect(squish);
// every frame, from the player's update()
const feet = player.height * (1 - player.anchorPoint.y);
player.currentTransform
.identity()
.translate(0, feet)
.scale(1, scaleY)
.translate(0, -feet);
squish.setBulge(1 - scaleY);
```
Apply that from the sprite's own `update()`, not from a tween's `onUpdate`. A
physics adapter that mirrors a body's angle (Matter does) rewrites
`currentTransform` on every step, before the renderables update, so a scale set
anywhere else is gone by the time the sprite is drawn. Let the tween animate a
plain `{ scaleY }` object and read it in `update()`.
It is made for a sprite carrying it as its only effect: chained with another,
or on the camera, the frame it measures against is the whole capture, so it
squishes the whole frame. The bulge is outside the sprite's bounds, so culling
and pointer events ignore it.
**`BloomEffect` and `GlowEffect` are not the same thing**, and reachiUse with my agent
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