SKLabelNode upside down possible? - ios

Question

I'm developing a game in xcode 6 with swift. I have a scorelabel var scoreLabel: SKLabelNode!. Now in one of my methods I show my label:
scoreLabel = SKlabelNode(fontNamed: "TrebuchetMS-Bold")
scoreLabel.text = "\(score)"
scoreLabel.fontSize = 30
scoreLabel.fontColor = SKColor .redColor()
scoreLabel.position = CGPoint(x:780, y:180)
addChild(scoreLabel)
That shows my score as for example: 2500.
Is it possible to show this upside down?
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Sorry, I wrote this as list, because I wasn't able to write upside down here.
Thanks for answers.

Answer 1

Use the SKLabelNodePlus label for this. Here is the link: https://github.com/MKargin0/SKLabelNodePlus
Then, just invert the label by writing myLabel.xScale = -1. Its as simple as that!

Answer 2

You can create a custom class to loop through each character in the string and create a separate SKLabelNode for each character.
class SKVerticalLabelNode : SKNode
{
var fontName : String = "" {
didSet {
self.updateLabelProperties()
}
}
var fontSize : CGFloat = 10.0 {
didSet {
self.updateLabelProperties()
}
}
var fontColor : UIColor = UIColor.whiteColor() {
didSet {
self.updateLabelProperties()
}
}
var text : String = "" {
didSet {
self.updateLabelProperties()
}
}
func updateLabelProperties () {
self.removeAllChildren()
let length = countElements(text)
var yPosition : CGFloat = 0
for character in reverse(text) {
let label = SKLabelNode(fontNamed: self.fontName)
label.fontColor = self.fontColor
label.fontSize = self.fontSize
label.text = String(character)
label.position = CGPointMake(0, yPosition)
yPosition += label.frame.size.height
addChild(label)
}
}
}
It can be used like this
let scoreLabel = SKVerticalLabelNode()
scoreLabel.fontName = "TrebuchetMS-Bold"
scoreLabel.text = "2500"
scoreLabel.fontSize = 30
scoreLabel.fontColor = UIColor.redColor()
scoreLabel.position = CGPoint(x:180, y:180)
addChild(scoreLabel)