sklabelnode

I am having a problem with a slight delay (lag) when transitioning from one SKScene to another. By commenting out various bit of code I have narrowed this down to SKLabelNode , my guess is thats its loading / caching the font when called which is resulting in a small delay/stutter when stating up the new SKScene . Has anyone else noticed this, its less obvious when your just using a single SKScene (like the default template) as the slowdown just gets lost in the usual startup delay. Does anyone know a way round this, is there a way to pre-load the font? I guess I could load the font on the

I have an SKLabelNode that is the child of a SKSpriteNode because I'm trying to create a Button class to create buttons in an easier way. I've tried a couple of things using the anchor point of the SKSpriteNode, but I don't quite understand exactly what is going on. How do I centre the label onto the sprite (it's parent node)? I realized how to solve this...here's what i did. Keep in mind that I have a class called Button that is a subclass of SKSpriteNode. In the Button.m class I have an instance variable called label that is a SKLabelNode. I add the label node as a child to the button then

I am making a game using SpriteKit and Swift, running Xcode 6. I have an SKLabelNode , let's call it myLabelNode for this example. When I call myLabelNode.removeFromParent() it removes the node from the scene, as it should. The node count drops by 1, and it isn't visible anywhere on the screen. However, when I click the spot where myLabelNode previously was, my program will still call out the function that should only happen when myLabelNode is touched. I also tried combining myLabelNode.removeFromParent() with myLabelNode.hidden = true , but it is still touchable, and calls the function even

A label has four different verticalAlignmentMode : .Baseline , .Bottom , .Center and .Top . I would like the label to be centred on its position according to its baseline. .Center doesn't work for me because the bottom of the frame isn't the baseline of the text, but rather, the bottom of the lowest letter (like a 'y', for example). I have also tried using .Baseline and subtracting half the frame's height from the y-position, but this doesn't work either and results in the same problem as .Center . The text in the label I'm trying to centre is "Play!". Setting the mode to '.Center' makes the

I'm adding an old-school high-score entry screen to my game, in which the users tap each letter to enter their name. Each letter, symbol or phrase ('DEL', 'SP' etc) is a single SKLabelNode and it's very difficult to tap on the ',' and '.' characters and some of the symbols though. Each tap is detected via the usual touchesBegan To make detention easier I plan on placing a larger node behind each letter and update touchesBegan to either detect a touch on the label itself or on this other label, in which case just use the child node for the touch (which will be the letter or phrase). Before I do

at the moment I'm coding a little app with SpriteKit, which works perfectly fine, but the only problem is an SKLabelNode, which I initialize with the following normal piece of code: ​self.scoreLabel = [SKLabelNode labelNodeWithFontNamed:@"Futura"]; self.scoreLabel.fontSize = 190.0f; self.scoreLabel.color = [SKColor whiteColor]; self.scoreLabel.alpha = .2; self.scoreLabel.text = @"00"; self.scoreLabel.position = CGPointMake(screenWidth/2,self.scoreLabel.frame.size.height/2); [self addChild:self.scoreLabel]; There a many more things to initialize, but they doesn't affect anything. If I comment