I am using Sprite Kit in Xcode and I was wondering how to change gravity direction.As default gravity direction to "X" you can imagine on below axes graphic.What about if I would like to change to "Y".
My goal is giving to object the falling effect.Its like falling from hight point and touching the ground than getting respond with physics!
(Could be dices on board game)
//Default gravity direction is X
SKSpriteNode *myNode =[SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithImageNamed:#"ball"];
myNode.physicsBody=[SKPhysicsBody bodyWithCircleOfRadius:self.frame.size.width/2];
[self addChild: myNode];
Thanks in advance!
You can apply a vector to the Physics World of your scene using this code
self.physicsWorld.gravity=CGVectorMake(0,-10);
In SpriteKit, X and Y are the default coordinates that you see on the screen, and the Z coordinate is the order in which the objects are positioned (the zPosition). Since SpriteKit uses a 2D game engine, you do not have a third dimension, Z, to utilize. You can change the gravity between Y and X (Top/Bottom and Left/Right of screen respectively), but not between the Z coordinate. If you want to recreate a "dice falling" effect, I would recommend you create a Sprite called Dice scaled to a large amount, and once you add it to the scene you scale it down in x amounts of seconds.
[self runAction:[SKAction scaleBy:negativeFloatHere duration:3]];
This will make the dice appear to be falling, and you might want to add some spinning animations for it if you with. If you want to use the 3D engine, go try out Metal or SceneKit
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I'm trying to build a game about billiards. The screen is like a table, the default direction of the gravity system is downward, that is, the Y axis. And I want to change this direction to Z axis, so the ball has both gravity effect and will not fall down. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.
physicsWorld.gravity in SpriteKit is a 2D vector (dx,dy) and thus has no concept of the z axis.
for a top-down billiard game you might try turning gravity off self.physicsWorld.gravity = .zero and then use velocity and linearDamping on your billiard ball nodes to simulate realistic rolling.
Swift beginner struggling with moving a scene node in ARkit in response to the device motion.
What I want to achieve is: First detect the floor plane, then place a sphere on the floor. From that point onwards depending on the movement of the device, I want to move the sphere along its x and z axis to move it around the floor of the room. (The sphere once created needs to be in the center of the device screen and locked to that view)
So far I can detect the floor and place a node no problem. I can use device motion to obtain the device attitude (pitch, roll and yaw) but how to translate these values into meaningful x, y, z positions that I can update my node with?
Are there any formulas or methods that are used to calculate such information or is this the wrong approach? I would appreciate a link to some info or an explanation of how to go about this. Also I am unsure how to ensure the node would be always at the center of the device screen.
so, as far as I understood you want to have a following workflow:
Step 1. You create a sphere on a plane (which is already done)
Step 2. Move the sphere with respect to the camera's horizontal plane (i.e. along its x and z axis to move it around the floor of the room depending on the movement of the device)
Assuming that the Step 1 is done, what you can do:
Get the position of the camera and the sphere
This should be first called within the function that is invoked after sphere creation (be it a tapGestureRecognizer(), touchesBegan(), etc.).
You can do it by calling position property of SCNNode for sphere and for camera position and/or orientation by calling sceneView.session.currentFrame's .camera.transform which contains all necessary parameters about current position of the camera
Move the sphere as camera moves
Having the sphere position on the Scene and the transformation matrix of the camera, you can find the distance relation between them. Here you can find a good explanation of how exactly you can do it
After you get those things you should implement a proper logic within renderer(_:didUpdate:for:) to obtain continuous lock of the ball with respect to the camera position
If you are interested about the math behind it, you can kick off by reading more about transformation matrices which is a big part of Image Processing and many other areas
Hope that this will help!
I created 2 cylinders and put one on top of the other. Then I clicked to simulate physics and on each cylinder I added the following image blueprint, added a 50-point rotation on the z axis of each cylinder in opposite directions.
It turns out that in the simulation, when I perform, the cylinders rotate in one direction and move on the ground in the other direction. If it turns clockwise it moves left, and vice versa, and should be the other way around.
Can anyone help me solve this? It's for both cylinders to work together and I see how their simulation is accelerating with a constant rotation, but that's not what happens
If you want to simulate physics you should be applying forces to the cylinders using Add Torque in Radians or Add Torque in Degrees rather than modifying the rotation directly.
Alternatively, if you want to precisely control the cylinders, do not simulate physics. Instead, disable Simulate Physics and animate the rotation and position of the cylinders directly as you are.
so I have a sprite that is created every second and that is moving at a random position (sprite1) and another sprite that has a fixed position (sprite2). I would like that when sprite1 collide with sprite2, sprite1 is like sticked to it (it stops moving and is sticked to it) . How can I do this please ? sorry for my english I'm french :/
p.s : sprite2 is rotating with accelerometer, so if sprite1 collide with it I would like that it rotate too :)
I think, you can try to use box2d to do this. It will help to detect collisions and to manage rotations, movement, etc.
I think, you can do it simply in Cocos2d.
1) First set the rect for sprite1 and sprite2 using CGRectMake(x,y,width,height)
2) As you told sprite1 is moving at random position and sprite2 is fixed to particular position, you can check them collide by using CGRectIntersectsRect([sprite1 bounds],[sprite2 bounds]).
3) if it intersects, set sprite1.position = sprite2.position
Note: you said sprite1 is rotating, rect can be fit only to the regular bodies. if you want exact collision or physical properties for sprite better you can go for box2d.
If you don't want to use Box2d (which can handle circle collisions), you can try something like this:
1.) Detect collision, is the distance between the two circles center point (x,y), less than the sum of the two circles radius.
2.) Make the Sprite1 stick to Sprite2, Stop the movement of Sprite1, and save the relative delta (x,y) to Sprite2, then whenever Sprite2 moves or rotates apply the same delta movement and rotation to Sprite1.
Right imagine your at 0,1,0 or even a cube is. You then rotate 45% (glRotatef), then you move that object forward (glTranslate 0,0,10) so you move that object 10 forward (I have a camera using glLookat).
How do you then get that objects position in the 3D space (not screen position)?
Is it something to do with:
float modelViewMatrix[16];
glGetFloatv(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, modelViewMatrix);
If I could find that objects position I could use it as say a bullet and then know if it hits another object very easily (I dont use the Y axes).
Just multiply your vertexes ([x, y, z, 1.0]) by your modelview (modelViewMatrix) matrix.