Making a SKScene's background transparent not working… is this a bug?

Question

Is there a way to make a SKScene\'s background transparent and present that scene over another one seeing thru the transparency.

The idea is to have the background o

Answer 1

In iOS 8, you can set the scene's SKView to allow transparency and set the scene's background color to have transparency. Then views behind the SKView will be seen.

UIView *parentView = ...;
[parentView addSubview:backgroundView];
[parentView addSubview:skViewWithScene];
skViewWithScene.allowsTransparency = YES;
scene.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[skViewWithScene presentScene:scene];