entity/shape_primitives_gallery

Goal

See the built-in shape kinds side by side and understand how fill, stroke, and rotation affect them.

Why this tutorial exists

Mini Arcade can render several entity shapes without custom draw code. This example makes the supported primitives explicit:

• rect

• circle

• triangle

• line

• poly

Source map

• Settings profile: examples/settings/entity/shape_primitives_gallery.yml

• Example builder: examples/catalog/entity/shape_primitives_gallery/main.py

• Scene: examples/catalog/entity/shape_primitives_gallery/scenes/scene.py

• Built-in queued renderer: packages/mini-arcade-core/src/mini_arcade_core/scenes/systems/builtins/__init__.py

What to verify

You should see:

1. a filled rounded rectangle

2. a filled circle

3. an outlined rotating triangle

4. a dashed line

5. a polygon rendered from shape.points

Run

mini-arcade run --example entity/shape_primitives_gallery
mini-arcade run --example entity/shape_primitives_gallery --pass-through --backend pygame
mini-arcade run --example entity/shape_primitives_gallery --pass-through --backend native

Key idea

The scene does not implement custom geometry drawing. It creates entities and lets the built-in queued renderer choose the correct draw operation for each shape.

Related concepts

• Entities Internals

• Shapes and Layering Internals

Next step

• entity/z_index_and_layer_intuition