How to draw a line in Sprite-kit

Question

How can one draw a line in Sprite-kit? For example if I want to draw a line in cocos2d, I could easily using ccDrawLine();

Is there an equivalent in sp

Answer 1

I found this post while trying to draw a line on each mouseDown, of the example xCode / OS X / Game (aka SpriteKit)/ Application.

You can copy/paste this code into GameScene.swift. It should draw a line on each mouse-down event by user. Looks 'etch-a-sketch'-style.

import SpriteKit

var lastPoint: CGPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: 0.0)
var newPoint: CGPoint = CGPoint(x: 100.0, y: 100.0)


class GameScene: SKScene {
    override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
        /* Setup your scene here */
        self.backgroundColor = SKColor.blackColor()
        let myLabel = SKLabelNode(fontNamed:"default")
        myLabel.text = "SKSpriteNode Draw Lines";
        myLabel.fontSize = 15;
        myLabel.position = CGPoint(x:CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), y:CGRectGetMidY(self.frame));

        self.addChild(myLabel)
    }

    override func mouseDown(theEvent: NSEvent) {
        /* Called when a mouse click occurs */

        let location = theEvent.locationInNode(self)
        newPoint = location

        let pathToDraw:CGMutablePathRef = CGPathCreateMutable()
        let myLine:SKShapeNode = SKShapeNode(path:pathToDraw)


        CGPathMoveToPoint(pathToDraw, nil, lastPoint.x, lastPoint.y)
        CGPathAddLineToPoint(pathToDraw, nil, newPoint.x, newPoint.y)
        lastPoint = newPoint

        myLine.path = pathToDraw
        myLine.strokeColor = SKColor.whiteColor()

        self.addChild(myLine)
    }
}

For the newbies, this is what my xCode project looks like:

For the small handful iOS of folks. Same code as above ported to touchBegan of the example iOS / Game (aka SpriteKit) / Application default project.

Put this code in your GameScene.swift file

import SpriteKit

var lastPoint: CGPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: 0.0)
var newPoint: CGPoint = CGPoint(x: 100.0, y: 100.0)


class GameScene: SKScene {
    override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
        /* Setup your scene here */
        self.backgroundColor = SKColor.blackColor()
        let myLabel = SKLabelNode(fontNamed:"default")
        myLabel.text = "SKSpriteNode Draw Lines";
        myLabel.fontSize = 15;
        myLabel.position = CGPoint(x:CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), y:CGRectGetMidY(self.frame));

        self.addChild(myLabel)
    }


override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {
    /* Called when a touch begins */

    for touch in (touches as! Set<UITouch>) {
        let location = touch.locationInNode(self)

        newPoint = location

        let pathToDraw:CGMutablePathRef = CGPathCreateMutable()
        let myLine:SKShapeNode = SKShapeNode(path:pathToDraw)


        CGPathMoveToPoint(pathToDraw, nil, lastPoint.x, lastPoint.y)
        CGPathAddLineToPoint(pathToDraw, nil, newPoint.x, newPoint.y)
        lastPoint = newPoint

        myLine.path = pathToDraw
        myLine.strokeColor = SKColor.whiteColor()
        self.addChild(myLine)
   }}}

Enjoy.