I am developing a small game but I'm stuck on this. I want to generate a random position for an SKSpriteNode called div. I have this code
let random = arc4random() % UInt32(self.frame.size.width)
let random1 = arc4random() % UInt32(self.frame.size.height)
div.position = CGPoint(x: Int(random), y: Int(random1))
self.addChild(div)
I can't figure out what's wrong and why the div is sometimes out of the frame and not visible. Does anyone has a good solution for this?
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
try setting this in your didMoveToView,
self.size = view.bounds.size
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I have a UIimage which I want to move according to X and Y given by certain equations ( physics projectile time equations) and I want it to move every 1 second so that it would appear to the user as if it's actually moving not just disappearing and reappearing at the last position, plus the positions given off are wrong I think. I would appreciate any help for either or both problems.
So far I tried this:
The movement function:
func moveCannonBall(toX:Int , toY:Int ){
var frm: CGRect = ballimageview.frame
frm.origin.x = frm.origin.x + CGFloat(toX)
frm.origin.y = frm.origin.y - CGFloat(toY)
ballimageview.frame = frm
}
On button click it's supposed to take the user's inputs (gravity, angle, and the initial speed)
#IBAction func getAlpha( sender:AnyObject){
gravity = Float(g[pickerView.selectedRow(inComponent: 0)])
xMax = ((V0*V0)*sin(2.0*angle))/gravity
It's supposed to stop every 1 second but only the calculations pause every 1 second and the UIimage just disappears and reappears just
while Int(toX) < Int(xMax) {
sleep(1)
t = t + 1
toX = V0*cos(angle)*t
toY = -0.5*gravity*t*t + V0*sin(angle)*t
moveCannonBall(toX: Int(toX), toY: Int(toY))
}
}
Any help is appreciated.
As Losiowaty said UIView.animationWithDuration is the way to go. Check out this answer to see how the syntax is: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30992214/5257729
My SKEmitterNode in my game isnt changing size when I call its property particleSize.
let myParticle = SKEmitterNode(fileNamed: "MyParticle.sks")
myParticle?.particleSize = CGSize(width: 100, height: 100)
self.addChild(myParticle!)
My Particle still has its large rectangle size. Am I calling the wrong property or what? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Try:
let myScale: CGFloat = 2 //2 = double dimension; 0.5 = half dimension
let myParticle = SKEmitterNode(fileNamed: "MyParticle.sks")
myParticle?.particleScale = myScale
self.addChild(myParticle!)
Very new to Sprite Kit and i'm doing some reading now, but wanted to ask about something that I haven't found the best answer to yet.
I'm doing a tutorial with some code that creates a background, and then adds a label to show a score. I started changing the label code to position it on the top-left corner of the screen.
Here is the code (with my edits to the label, gameLabel):
let screenSize = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds
let screenWidth = screenSize.width
let screenHeight = screenSize.height
let background = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "background")
background.position = CGPoint(x: screenWidth / 10, y: (screenHeight / 15) - 100)
background.blendMode = .Replace
background.zPosition = -1
addChild(background)
gameScore = SKLabelNode(fontNamed: "Chalkduster")
gameScore.text = "Score: 0"
gameScore.position = CGPoint(x: screenWidth / 10, y: (screenHeight / 15) - 100)
gameScore.horizontalAlignmentMode = .Left
gameScore.verticalAlignmentMode = .Top
gameScore.fontSize = 48
addChild(gameScore)
So the label is not displaying in any case, and my assumption is this:
Because i'm adding the background first, the label is getting added within the confines of the background, therefore it needs to be positioned differently, perhaps using the label size instead of the screen size?
My questions:
How can I get the label to always appear in the top left?
The author chose a hard-coded CGPoint for this background image and then said it has to be on an iPad, but i'd like to do it for iPhone 6/plus in landscape as well as iPad. Is there a way I can just make it work on both devices without having to specify a CGPoint like that? Can't it just scale and work regardless?
Thanks and apologies if these are basic questions - i'm going to do my best to continue reading on the subject..
Your question has a simple answer to it. You have forgotten and missed out somethings in your code, and I can show you these things.
In your code you set the background ZPosition to -1, the smallest number will always appear at the back. So if you set the SKLabelNode to a bigger zPosition it will always appear at the front, as maybe there may be a problem with rendering, as I have also experience like these, I fix it this way:
Before you add the LabelNode set it's property to this:
gamescore.zPosition = 0
0, In this case could just be anything bigger than the backgrounds(or the node that you want to appear at the back). So this just tells the compiler that you want the LabelNode to appear at the front, or in front of the Background.
If you want to make a universal app or game, with SpriteKit you will need to add some extra code to your game or app. Since I think that it is better to give you a good tutorial to show you instead of showing you some basics, I will give you a good link on how to do this:
SpriteKit: how to make a universal app
I hope this helps, and don't worry this took me some time to figure out my self.
I'm trying to make Jigsaw puzzle game in SpriteKit. To make things easier I using 9x9 squared tiles board. On each tile is one childNode with piece of image from it area.
But here's starts my problem. Piece of jigsaw puzzle isn't perfect square, and when I apply SKTexture to node it just place from anchorPoint = {0,0}. And result isn't pretty, actually its terrible.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2di30hk5evdd5fr/IMG_0086.jpg?dl=0
I managed to fix those tiles with right and top "hooks", but left and bottom side doesn't care about anything.
var sprite = SKSpriteNode()
let originSize = frame.size
let textureSize = texture.size()
sprite.size = originSize
sprite.texture = texture
sprite.size = texture.size()
let x = (textureSize.width - originSize.width)
let widthRate = x / textureSize.width
let y = (textureSize.height - originSize.height)
let heightRate = y / textureSize.height
sprite.anchorPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.5 - (widthRate * 0.5), y: 0.5 - (heightRate * 0.5))
sprite.position = CGPoint(x: frame.width * 0.5, y: frame.height * 0.5)
addChild(sprite)
Can you give me some advice?
I don't see a way you can get placement right without knowing more about the piece texture you are using because they will all be different. Like if the piece has a nob on any of the sides and the width width/height the nob will add to the texture. Hard to tell in the pic but even if it doesn't have a nob and instead has an inset it might add varying sizes.
Without knowing anything about how the texture is created I am not able to offer help on that. But I do believe the issue starts with that. If it were me I would create a square texture with additional alpha to center the piece correctly. So the center of that texture would always be placed in the center of a square on the grid.
With all that being said I do know that adding that texture to a node and then adding that node to a SKNode will make your placement go smoother with the way you currently have it. The trick will then only be placing that textured piece correctly within the empty SKNode.
For example...
let piece = SKSpriteNode()
let texturedPiece = SKSpriteNode(texture: texture)
//positioning
//offset x needs to be calculated with additional info about the texture
//for example it has just a nob on the right
let offsetX : CGFloat = -nobWidth/2
//offset y needs to be calculated with additional info about the texture
//for example it has a nob on the top and bottom
let offsetY : CGFloat = 0.0
texturedPiece.position = CGPointMake(offsetX, offsetY)
piece.addChild(texturedPiece)
let squareWidth = size.width/2
//Now that the textured piece is placed correctly within a parent
//placing the parent is super easy and consistent without messing
//with anchor points. This will also make rotations nice.
piece.position = CGPoint(x: squareWidth/2, y: squareWidth/2)
addChild(piece)
Hopefully that makes sense and didn't confuse things further.
I'm developing a game on Iphone and Ipad like a space invaders.
Balloons to destroy are falling from the top of the screen in a straight line.
Here my codes to add them :
func addBalloonv(){
var balloonv:SKSpriteNode = SKSpriteNode (imageNamed: "ballonvert.png")
balloonv.physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody (circleOfRadius: balloonv.size.width/2)
balloonv.physicsBody.dynamic = true
balloonv.physicsBody.categoryBitMask = balloonCategory | greenCategory
balloonv.physicsBody.contactTestBitMask = flechetteCategory
balloonv.physicsBody.collisionBitMask = balloonCategory
balloonv.physicsBody.mass = 1
balloonv.physicsBody.restitution = 1
balloonv.physicsBody.allowsRotation = true
let minX = balloonv.size.width/2
let maxX = self.frame.size.width - balloonv.size.width/2
let rangeX = maxX - minX
let position:CGFloat = CGFloat(arc4random()) % CGFloat(rangeX) + CGFloat(minX)
balloonv.position = CGPointMake(position, self.frame.size.height+balloonv.size.height)
self.addChild(balloonv)
I have one func by balloon color.
So for the moment they move in straight line and I'm looking for random movements (with turbulences like balloon in air) from the top and both sides.
How can I do that?
Thank you very much !!
This is exactly what the new Physics Fields feature in SpriteKit (as of iOS 8 / OS X Yosemite) is for. These let you apply different kinds of forces to all physics bodies in region, like gravity, drag, and turbulence. See the SKFieldNode class docs for details.
Fields are a kind of node, so to get what you're after, you'd add one noise (or turbulence) field to your scene, covering the area that the balloons fall through, and it'll perturb the path of each balloon that passes. The simplest way to do it goes something like this:
let field = SKFieldNode.noiseFieldWithSmoothness(0.5, animationSpeed: 0.1)
scene.addChild(field)
You'll want to tweak the smoothness, animation speed, and field.strength till you get just the level of noise you want. You might also look into whether you want just a noise field, which applies random forces in random directions, or a turbulence field, which does the same thing, but with forces that get stronger when bodies are moving faster.
The above code gets you a field whose region of effect is infinite. You might want to limit it to a specific area (for example, so it doesn't keep knocking your balloons around after they land). I did this to make a field that covers only the top 3/4 of a 300x200 scene:
field.region = SKRegion(size: CGSize(width: 300, height: 100))
field.position = CGPoint(x: 150, y: 150)