Flipped x-scale breaks collision handling (SpriteKit 7.1)

Question

I use SKNode\'s xScale property to flip my sprites horizontally. Now, after updating iOS to version 7.1 horizontal flip causes my objects to sink inside the ground. (See ani

Answer 1

I'm convinced this is a bug in SpriteKit.

Anyway, here is one solution for the problem (Actually, this is more a workaround than a real solution but...): Wrap the sprite in a container node. Also, container node holds the physicsBody while the child node is merely a graphics node. This way you can safely flip the sprite using xScale without affecting the physics of the node.

// Init
{
    SKSpriteNode* turtleSprite = [SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithImageNamed:@"turtle.png"];
    self.turtleSprite = turtleSprite;

    SKNode* turtleWrapper = [SKNode node]; 
    turtleWrapper.physicsBody = [SKPhysicsBody bodyWithCircleOfRadius:turtleSprite.size.width/2];
    turtleWrapper.physicsBody.categoryBitMask = 2;
    turtleWrapper.physicsBody.collisionBitMask = 1;
    turtleWrapper.physicsBody.contactTestBitMask = 1;

    [turtleWrapper addChild:turtleSprite];
    [self.world addChild:turtleWrapper];
}

// Elsewhere
{
    self.turtleSprite.xScale *= -1;
}