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CanvasItem

Inherits: Node < Object

Inherited By: Control, Node2D

Base class of anything 2D.

Description

Base class of anything 2D. Canvas items are laid out in a tree; children inherit and extend their parent's transform. CanvasItem is extended by Control for anything GUI-related, and by Node2D for anything related to the 2D engine.

Any CanvasItem can draw. For this, queue_redraw is called by the engine, then NOTIFICATION_DRAW will be received on idle time to request redraw. Because of this, canvas items don't need to be redrawn on every frame, improving the performance significantly. Several functions for drawing on the CanvasItem are provided (see draw_* functions). However, they can only be used inside _draw, its corresponding Object._notification or methods connected to the draw signal.

Canvas items are drawn in tree order. By default, children are on top of their parents so a root CanvasItem will be drawn behind everything. This behavior can be changed on a per-item basis.

A CanvasItem can also be hidden, which will also hide its children. It provides many ways to change parameters such as modulation (for itself and its children) and self modulation (only for itself), as well as its blend mode.

Ultimately, a transform notification can be requested, which will notify the node that its global position changed in case the parent tree changed.

Note: Unless otherwise specified, all methods that have angle parameters must have angles specified as radians. To convert degrees to radians, use @GlobalScope.deg_to_rad.

Tutorials

• Viewport and canvas transforms

• Custom drawing in 2D

• Audio Spectrum Demo

Properties

ClipChildrenMode	clip_children	0
int	light_mask	1
Material	material
Color	modulate	Color(1, 1, 1, 1)
Color	self_modulate	Color(1, 1, 1, 1)
bool	show_behind_parent	false
TextureFilter	texture_filter	0
TextureRepeat	texture_repeat	0
bool	top_level	false
bool	use_parent_material	false
int	visibility_layer	1
bool	visible	true
bool	y_sort_enabled	false
bool	z_as_relative	true
int	z_index	0

Methods

void	_draw ( ) virtual
void	draw_animation_slice ( float animation_length, float slice_begin, float slice_end, float offset=0.0 )
void	draw_arc ( Vector2 center, float radius, float start_angle, float end_angle, int point_count, Color color, float width=-1.0, bool antialiased=false )
void	draw_char ( Font font, Vector2 pos, String char, int font_size=16, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1) ) const
void	draw_char_outline ( Font font, Vector2 pos, String char, int font_size=16, int size=-1, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1) ) const
void	draw_circle ( Vector2 position, float radius, Color color )
void	draw_colored_polygon ( PackedVector2Array points, Color color, PackedVector2Array uvs=PackedVector2Array(), Texture2D texture=null )
void	draw_dashed_line ( Vector2 from, Vector2 to, Color color, float width=-1.0, float dash=2.0, bool aligned=true )
void	draw_end_animation ( )
void	draw_lcd_texture_rect_region ( Texture2D texture, Rect2 rect, Rect2 src_rect, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1) )
void	draw_line ( Vector2 from, Vector2 to, Color color, float width=-1.0, bool antialiased=false )
void	draw_mesh ( Mesh mesh, Texture2D texture, Transform2D transform=Transform2D(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0), Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1) )
void	draw_msdf_texture_rect_region ( Texture2D texture, Rect2 rect, Rect2 src_rect, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), float outline=0.0, float pixel_range=4.0, float scale=1.0 )
void	draw_multiline ( PackedVector2Array points, Color color, float width=-1.0 )
void	draw_multiline_colors ( PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, float width=-1.0 )
void	draw_multiline_string ( Font font, Vector2 pos, String text, HorizontalAlignment alignment=0, float width=-1, int font_size=16, int max_lines=-1, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), LineBreakFlag brk_flags=3, JustificationFlag justification_flags=3, Direction direction=0, Orientation orientation=0 ) const
void	draw_multiline_string_outline ( Font font, Vector2 pos, String text, HorizontalAlignment alignment=0, float width=-1, int font_size=16, int max_lines=-1, int size=1, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), LineBreakFlag brk_flags=3, JustificationFlag justification_flags=3, Direction direction=0, Orientation orientation=0 ) const
void	draw_multimesh ( MultiMesh multimesh, Texture2D texture )
void	draw_polygon ( PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, PackedVector2Array uvs=PackedVector2Array(), Texture2D texture=null )
void	draw_polyline ( PackedVector2Array points, Color color, float width=-1.0, bool antialiased=false )
void	draw_polyline_colors ( PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, float width=-1.0, bool antialiased=false )
void	draw_primitive ( PackedVector2Array points, PackedColorArray colors, PackedVector2Array uvs, Texture2D texture=null )
void	draw_rect ( Rect2 rect, Color color, bool filled=true, float width=-1.0 )
void	draw_set_transform ( Vector2 position, float rotation=0.0, Vector2 scale=Vector2(1, 1) )
void	draw_set_transform_matrix ( Transform2D xform )
void	draw_string ( Font font, Vector2 pos, String text, HorizontalAlignment alignment=0, float width=-1, int font_size=16, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), JustificationFlag justification_flags=3, Direction direction=0, Orientation orientation=0 ) const
void	draw_string_outline ( Font font, Vector2 pos, String text, HorizontalAlignment alignment=0, float width=-1, int font_size=16, int size=1, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), JustificationFlag justification_flags=3, Direction direction=0, Orientation orientation=0 ) const
void	draw_style_box ( StyleBox style_box, Rect2 rect )
void	draw_texture ( Texture2D texture, Vector2 position, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1) )
void	draw_texture_rect ( Texture2D texture, Rect2 rect, bool tile, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), bool transpose=false )
void	draw_texture_rect_region ( Texture2D texture, Rect2 rect, Rect2 src_rect, Color modulate=Color(1, 1, 1, 1), bool transpose=false, bool clip_uv=true )
void	force_update_transform ( )
RID	get_canvas ( ) const
RID	get_canvas_item ( ) const
Transform2D	get_canvas_transform ( ) const
Vector2	get_global_mouse_position ( ) const
Transform2D	get_global_transform ( ) const
Transform2D	get_global_transform_with_canvas ( ) const
Vector2	get_local_mouse_position ( ) const
Transform2D	get_screen_transform ( ) const
Transform2D	get_transform ( ) const
Rect2	get_viewport_rect ( ) const
Transform2D	get_viewport_transform ( ) const
bool	get_visibility_layer_bit ( int layer ) const
World2D	get_world_2d ( ) const
void	hide ( )
bool	is_local_transform_notification_enabled ( ) const