Can't get sprites from the sprites.atlas folder to show up.

Question

I'm trying to code the "Space Cat" game in Swift rather than Objective-C. I can't get the "machine_1" image from the Sprites.atlas to show up no matter what I do. I've checked the build phases tab and the Sprites.atlas folder is listed as a resource.

Here's my code: TitleScene:

//
//  TitleScene.swift
//  Space Cat
//
//  Created by Tommy Choe on 11/3/15.
//  Copyright © 2015 Tommy Choe. All rights reserved.
//

import SpriteKit

class TitleScene: SKScene {
    override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
        /* Setup your scene here */

        let backgroundImage = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "splash_1")
        backgroundImage.position = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), CGRectGetMidY(self.frame))
        backgroundImage.size = self.frame.size
        self.addChild(backgroundImage)

    }

    override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
        let gameScene = GameScene()
        let transition = SKTransition.fadeWithDuration(1.0)
        self.view?.presentScene(gameScene, transition: transition)
    }
}

GameScene

//
//  GameScene.swift
//  Space Cat
//
//  Created by Tommy Choe on 11/3/15.
//  Copyright (c) 2015 Tommy Choe. All rights reserved.
//

import SpriteKit

class GameScene: SKScene {
    override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
        /* Setup your scene here */

        //background image
        let backgroundImage = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "background_1")
        backgroundImage.position = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), CGRectGetMidY(self.frame))
        backgroundImage.size = self.frame.size
        self.addChild(backgroundImage)

        //machine
        let texture = SKTexture(imageNamed: "machine_1")
        let machine = SKSpriteNode(texture: texture)
        machine.position = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), CGRectGetMidY(self.frame))
        self.addChild(machine)

    }
}

GameViewController

//
//  GameViewController.swift
//  Space Cat
//
//  Created by Tommy Choe on 11/3/15.
//  Copyright (c) 2015 Tommy Choe. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit
import SpriteKit

class GameViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
        super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

        if let scene = TitleScene(fileNamed:"TitleScene") {
            // Configure the view.
            let skView = self.view as! SKView
            skView.showsFPS = true
            skView.showsNodeCount = true

            /* Sprite Kit applies additional optimizations to improve rendering performance */
            skView.ignoresSiblingOrder = true

            /* Set the scale mode to scale to fit the window */
            scene.scaleMode = .ResizeFill

            skView.presentScene(scene)
        }
    }

    override func shouldAutorotate() -> Bool {
        return true
    }

    override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        if UIDevice.currentDevice().userInterfaceIdiom == .Phone {
            return .AllButUpsideDown
        } else {
            return .All
        }
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
    }

    override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
        return true
    }
}

Any ideas on what could be wrong Amit Bijlani or Pasan Premaratne? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1 · 2016-07-23T02:29:03Z

July 23, 2016 2:29am

Tommy! I know this was a while ago and I want to know if you ever finished it in Swift? I am doing the same thing and made a struct for MachineNode and created a method named getMachine(position: CGPoint){} that would return the machine at the correct position. I am stuck a little bit further down and have some questions if you ended up finishing this in Swift.

import SpriteKit
import Foundation
import UIKit


struct MachineNode {

    let texturesArray = [SKTexture(imageNamed: "machine_1"),
                         SKTexture(imageNamed: "machine_2")]

    func getMachine(view: SKScene) -> SKSpriteNode {

        let machine = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "machine_1")
        machine.position = CGPoint(x: CGRectGetMidX(view.frame), y: 65)

        let machineAnimation = SKAction.animateWithTextures(self.texturesArray, timePerFrame: 0.4)
        let machineRepeat = SKAction.repeatActionForever(machineAnimation)

        machine.runAction(machineRepeat)
        return machine
    }
}

This is my gameplay scene, where i call the machine.

//
//  GamePlayScene.swift
//  Space Cat Swift
//
//  Created by Kyler on 7/21/16.
//  Copyright © 2016 Kyler. All rights reserved.
//
import SpriteKit
import UIKit
import Foundation

class GamePlayScene: SKScene {
    override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {

        let background = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "background_1")
        background.position = CGPoint(x: CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), y: CGRectGetMidY(self.frame))
        background.size = CGSizeMake(CGRectGetMaxX(self.frame), CGRectGetMaxY(self.frame))
        self.addChild(background)

        // Call the struct and create and display it
        let machine: MachineNode = MachineNode()
        self.addChild(machine.getMachine(self))  
    }
}

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Tommy Choe

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Can't get sprites from the sprites.atlas folder to show up.

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Kyler Smith

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