How do you tell if a node is on the screen spritekit swift

Question

I am trying to figure out how to determine if a node is visible on the screen or off the screen. Is this just a true/false property of the node? Thanks. (Using swift spritek

Answer 1

You could use CGRectIntersectsRect supplying the frame of your SKSpriteNode and the SKScene. For example:

if !CGRectIntersectsRect(frame, spriteNode.frame) {
    // Outside the bounds of the scene because the frames are no longer intersecting.
}