Background Image for Sprite-Kit Scene

Question

Im working in a Sprite-Kit Scene right now and I want to set the Background to an image named "bgimage" for example. How would I do this programmatically through the gamescene.swift ?

import UIKit
import SpriteKit
import CoreGraphics
class gameScene: SKScene {


}

Answer 1

You can declare your background image as an SKSpriteNode, set its position to the middle of the screen and add it to your scene.

import UIKit
import SpriteKit

class gameScene: SKScene {
    var background = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "bgimage")

    override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
        background.position = CGPoint(x: frame.size.width / 2, y: frame.size.height / 2)
        addChild(background)
    }
}

Also make sure you have the image in images.xcassets.

Answer 2

import UIKit
import SpriteKit
import CoreGraphics
class gameScene: SKScene {

var background = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "bgimage")

override func didMoveToView(to view: SKView) {
background.zPosition = 1
background.position = CGPoint(x: frame.size.width / 2, y: frame.size.height / 2)

addChild(background)


}
}

The zPosition should be lower than all the other Nodes in the gameScene

Answer 3

Full-size image background

override func didMove(to view: SKView) {

    super.didMove(to:view)

    DispatchQueue.main.async{

        self.background.zPosition = 0
        self.background.position = CGPoint(x: self.size.width / 2, y: self.size.height / 2)
        self.background.size = CGSize(width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height)
        self.addChild(self.background)

    }
}