v4-new-features

Phaser 4 adds Filters replacing FX and BitmapMask, RenderNodes replacing Pipelines, new game objects like CaptureFrame, Gradient, Noise variants, SpriteGPULayer, and TilemapGPULayer, plus Lighting and RenderSteps components and new tint modes like FILL, ADD, and OVERLAY.

Phaser 4 replaces Pipelines with RenderNodes, where each node handles a single rendering task via its run method. Register custom nodes with renderer.renderNodes.addNodeConstructor and assign them to game objects using setRenderNodeRole.

Use SpriteGPULayer, which renders up to millions of quads in a single draw call via a static GPU buffer. Populate members once at creation since buffer updates are expensive, and hide members by setting scale or alpha to zero.

No, Phaser 4 replaces preFX and postFX with the Filters system. Call sprite.enableFilters() then use sprite.filters.internal for object-local effects or sprite.filters.external for screen-space effects.

setTintFill is a deprecated no-op in Phaser 4 that only logs a console error. Instead call setTint to set the color and setTintMode with Phaser.TintModes.FILL to replicate the old fill behavior.

TilemapGPULayer supports only a single tileset with one texture, orthographic maps, and a maximum of 4096x4096 tiles. Editing tiles requires a manual generateLayerDataTexture call, and it is WebGL only.