How to add an overlay start scene in swift? - swift

Question

can someone code for me please how to add an overlay start scene in swift?
I want to add a startMenu like in Flappy Bird, and then when you click play it just moves/fades away and the game begins.
Can someone help me achieve this effect?
Looking to achieve this.
I will be more than thankful!

Answer 1

Try to post some code of what you have tried so far when asking a question on stack overflow, people tend to not write code for you.
You can basically do this 2 ways.
1)
Either create a StartScene and transition to GameScene with your preferred SKTransition when the play button is pressed e.g SKTransition.crossFade
2)
If you want to do it in the same scene you can just create a SKNode/SKSpriteNode class to use as a menu.
class Menu: SKSpriteNode {
lazy var playLabel: SKLabelNode = {
let label = SKLabelNode(fontNamed: "HelveticaNeue")
label.text = "Play"
label.fontSize = 22
label.fontColor = .yellow
label.position = CGPoint(x: self.frame.midX, y: self.frame.midY)
return label
}()
/// Init with size
init(size: CGSize) {
super.init(texture: nil, color: .red, size: size)
addChild(playLabel)
}
}
}
Than in your GameScene Scene you can add the menu like so with your preferred size, in this example the size of the scene.
class GameScene: SKScene {
lazy var menu: Menu = Menu(size: self.size)
override func didMove(to view: SKView) {
addChild(menu)
}
}
You can add other nodes for UI, including sprites for buttons etc, to that menu class.
Than in GameScene in touches Began you can look for nodes that are touched, e.g the play button and than do your thing e.g to animate out the menu
let action1 = SKAction.fadeAlpha(to: 0, duration: 0.5)
let action2 = SKAction.removeFromParent()
let sequence = SKAction.sequence([action1, action2])
menu.run(sequence)
If you stuck there and want more coding samples you should google how to do this, is basic SpriteKit stuff that you need to know and there is plenty tutorials available. This includes samples of how to make button subclasses using SKSpriteNodes.
Hope this helps