Sprite Kit: Animation in English-Speak

Message sequence of actions to SKAction, then message that sequence of actions to repeatActionForever, then run that forever action to the player (SKSpriteNode)

Sprite Kit: Up is down, down is up

There's no error on messaging the location.x to moveToX action of SKAction, think spaceship which just move left and right and remains stationary on its Y

-(void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UITouch* touched = [touches anyObject];
    

    CGPoint location = [touched locationInView:self.view];

    
    SKAction* moveAction = [SKAction moveToX: location.x duration:0.0];
    
    
    [player runAction: moveAction];
}

However, it's preferable to use locationInNode. If we want the spaceship to move in all direction yet we use locationInView, the app will exhibit this same error: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21948027/skaction-moveto-goes-up-when-should-go-down

CGPoint location = [touched locationInView:self.view]
SKAction* moveAction = [SKAction moveTo: location duration:0.0];    

Though the spaceship's X will move accordingly to your touch, the spaceship's Y will not follow your finger movements.


To rectify that flaw, get the location from SKScene's view (self) instead of the UIView's view (self.view), then message that view to touched object's locationInNode instead of locationInView

CGPoint location = [touched locationInNode:self];
SKAction* moveAction = [SKAction moveTo: location duration:0.0];

Happy Coding! ツ

Sprite Kit: Determine touch location in English-speak

Create a touchesMoved event in the game scene. To determine the touched location, first get a UITouch from touched object (use anyObject), then from that UITouch object get its location(CGPoint) in view, with the parameter being the game scene's view.

To move an object (e.g. player (SKSpriteNode)), message the location(CGPoint) to the moving action functionality (moveTo) of an action(SKAction). Then message that action to the player's (SKSpriteNode) run action functionality

Making sense of Sprite Kit and iOS's MVC

Sprite Kit flow in English-speak

From the ViewController’s viewDidLoad we configure the view by doing the following:

1. Create a game view by casting the ViewController’s view to SKView

    SKView has some properties like:

         showsFPS, showsNodeCount, showsDrawCount


2. We create game scene via instance of a class that derives from SKScene

3. Then we call game view’s presentScene to present the game scene


A game scene extends SKScene. On game scene’s initialization: 

1. We can set the size of the scene, from the scene we can also set the background color. 

2. We can add a player (instance of SKSpriteNode) on game scene by calling the game scene’s addChild which has a parameter of SKSpriteNode