Sprite Kit iOS 7.1 crash on removeFromParent

Question

I have updated iPad Air to 7.1 and Xcode to 5.1. Xcode wanted to update my project to recommended settings, I agreed.

After that my game began crashing in a couple o

Answer 1

I am also experiencing the crash. However, the solutions to override the removeFromParent method and setting the SKShapeNode to nil didn't work for me.

I did discover that my crash was the combination of:

1. Having a SKShapeNode (either a subclass OR a child of a SKNode)

2. Having a SKPhysicsNode attached to a node (attached to a parent SKNode OR the SKShapeNode).

3. Calling the method removeFromParent

The solution I ended up using was overriding the removeFromParent method in my SKShapeNode subclass with the following:

- (void)removeFromParent
{
    if( self.physicsBody != nil )
    {
        self.physicsBody = nil;
    }

    [super removeFromParent];
}