SKTexture and the scale property of a UIImage

Question

Is there any reason why an SKTexture appears to ignore the .scale of an image when constructed via textureWithImage:?

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Answer 1

I've found this too and believe it's a bug. Not sure how Apple are going to rectify this as it could break existing code.

My workaround is to read the scale of the UIImage and then set the scale of the SKSpriteNode to 1.0 / scale. You need to do this for both the x and y scales of the SKSpriteNode.