Move a node to finger using Swift + SpriteKit

Question

UPDATE: I have solved the problem, and figured out a more simplified way to do this then the answer provided. My solution was to make the velocity of the SP

Answer 1

In your thuchesBegan and touchesMoved store the touch location as the "target". In the update then check the position of your ship and reset the xVelocity to 0 if the ship has reached/passed the target.

Since you are only interested in the x coordinate you could also store just touchLocation.x. You can also reverse the velocity but I think that would look strange. Note that if the user moves the finger again, your ship will start moving again because the touchMoved will be triggered again.

On a side note, within touchesMoved you are also setting the shipLeft property but this is not set in your touchesBegan. If this property is used elsewhere you should sync its use.