game crashes with SIGKILL when running animation on custom SKSpriteNode - ios

Question

I'm encountering a very weird error causing my app to crash. I have created a custom SKSpriteNode called heroSpriteNode. Here is my initialization:
(id) init
{
if (self = [super init])
{
[self loadAnimations];
SKTexture *temp = self.gorillaStandingFrames[0];
self = [heroSpriteNode spriteNodeWithTexture:temp];
[self setUpHeroDetails];
}
return self;
}
The error is occurring when attempting to run an action on "self" the custom SkSpriteNode, like this:
-(void)jump
{
NSLog(#"Jump Tap!");
if(self.isOnTheGround)
{
self.physicsBody.velocity = CGVectorMake(0, 0);
self.physicsBody.angularVelocity = 0;
self.timedJump=NO;
[self.physicsBody applyImpulse:CGVectorMake(0, 350)];
[self removeActionForKey:#"walkingInPlaceBear"];
[self jumpingGorilla2]; // HERE IS THE ERROR
self.isOnTheGround=NO;
self.isRunning=NO;
self.isStanding=NO;
self.jumpFixTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.4 target:self selector:#selector(flipTimedJumpBoolean) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];
}
}
I know this animation (and other animations I run) is the issue, because when I comment out that line the game runs fine.
Here is how I am loading the textures and creating an action:
-(void)loadJumpAnimation2
{
NSMutableArray *jumpFrames = [NSMutableArray array];
SKTextureAtlas *gorillaAnimatedAtlas = [SKTextureAtlas atlasNamed:#"mainCharJump"];
int numImages = gorillaAnimatedAtlas.textureNames.count;
for (int i=2; i <= numImages; i++) {
NSString *textureName = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"j%d", i];
SKTexture *temp = [gorillaAnimatedAtlas textureNamed:textureName];
[jumpFrames addObject:temp];
}
self.gorillaFlyingJump = jumpFrames;
}
-(void)jumpingGorilla2
{
[self runAction:[SKAction repeatActionForever:
[SKAction animateWithTextures:self.gorillaFlyingJump
timePerFrame:0.25f
resize:NO
restore:YES]] withKey:#"jump"];
return;
}
When it crashes there is no crash report in the logger, only a popup message in Xcode that is of type: 9 SIGKILL. It seems like this could be a memory issue related to how the animation frames are being stored? The animations ran fine on a standard SkSpriteNode, then after refactoring much of the code into a custom SkSpriteNode, I can no longer apply animations. Any ideas? Thank you.
UPDATE:
I've created another class to try to isolate the issue I'm having, I will post the code below with comments.
Here is the entire test class I created:
#import "heroTestNode.h"
#implementation heroTestNode
- (id) init
{
if (self = [super init])
{
[self loadAnimations];
SKTexture *temp = self.gorillaWalkingFrames[0];
self = [heroTestNode spriteNodeWithTexture:temp];
}
return self;
}
-(void)loadAnimations
{
NSMutableArray *walkFrames = [NSMutableArray array];
SKTextureAtlas *gorillaAnimatedAtlas = [SKTextureAtlas atlasNamed:#"mainCharRun2"];
int numImages = gorillaAnimatedAtlas.textureNames.count;
NSLog(#"Here are how many animation frames: %d", numImages);
for (int i=1; i <= numImages; i++) {
NSString *textureName = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"r%d", i];
SKTexture *temp = [gorillaAnimatedAtlas textureNamed:textureName];
[walkFrames addObject:temp];
}
self.gorillaWalkingFrames = walkFrames;
}
-(void)walkingGorilla // running this is causing the SIGKILL 9 crash
{
[self runAction:[SKAction repeatActionForever:
[SKAction animateWithTextures:self.gorillaWalkingFrames
timePerFrame:0.1
resize:NO
restore:YES]] withKey:#"test"];
return;
}
#end
Here is the interface:
#import <SpriteKit/SpriteKit.h>
#interface heroTestNode : SKSpriteNode
#property NSMutableArray *gorillaWalkingFrames;
-(void)walkingGorilla;
#end
And finally, here is how I am instantiating it:
heroTestNode *test = [[heroTestNode alloc] init];
test.position = CGPointMake((self.frame.size.width/2)+30,self.frame.size.height/3);
[self addChild:test];
[test walkingGorilla]; // this is causing the SIGKILL 9 crash
This causes the it to freeze "compressing" the view into the bottom left corner of my iPad and going unresponsive. I have no idea what would be causing this.