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Posted by Mark El-Lamaa
Mark El-Lamaa
1,634 Points

how to make an animation an infinite loop for 2d games in sprite kit?

Can anyone give me some advice on how to code to make a ground node loop infinitely for a spriteKit game? Videos online don't really seem to help. I"m coding in Swift if thats any help, but i understand abit on objective C. thanks in advance

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

for an action named someAction, you can make that action repeat forever by calling the repeatActionForever class method of SKAction and passing in the action you want to repeat as an argument

//this rotates the sprite over 1 second
let someAction = SKAction.rotateByAngle(CGFloat(M_PI), duration:1)

//this will rotate the sprite indefinitely
let someActionRepeatingForever = SKAction.repeatActionForever(someAction)

then you would just need to run the someActionRepeatingForever action on your ground sprite node

someGroundSprite.runAction(someActionRepeatingForever)