Sprite kit and colorWithPatternImage

Question

Do we have any way of repeating an image across an area, like a SKSpriteNode? SKColor colorWithPatternImage doesn\'t work unfortunately.

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Answer 1

Yes, it is possible to implement that with a call to CGContextDrawTiledImage(), but that wastes a lot of memory for medium and large size nodes. A significantly improved approach is provided at spritekit_repeat_shader. This blog post provides example GLSL code and BSD licensed source is provided.