Make bubbles and balloons with sprite kit

Question

How would I create things like balloons and bubbles in a Sprite Kit physics world?

Their physics bodies' should be affected by gravity, right? But is there no way to set individual gravity per sprite?

Update: According to a forum post this is how Box2d does the local gravity: Maybe it can be replicated for games using other physics engines.

b.m_linearVelocity.x += step.dt * (gravity.x + b.m_invMass * b.m_force.x);
b.m_linearVelocity.y += step.dt * (gravity.y + b.m_invMass * b.m_force.y);

Box2d has the individual gravity for individual sprites. I wonder if I should just try to use Box2d with sprite kit and not use SKPhysicsBody and the other physics code of Sprite Kit at all. — Jonny
I also noticed that there is no such thing in Chipmunk (cocos2d 3) either... :-P — Jonny

Andrey Gordeev Andrey Gordeev · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-30T07:14:48

No, there is no way to set individual gravity per sprite, but you can apply force to the bubble:

- (void)update:(NSTimeInterval)currentTime {
    [bubbleNode.physicsBody applyForce:CGVectorMake(0,300)];
}