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Introduction to the Sprite Kit Scene Editor

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Do you dislike creating your game's levels programmatically? Learn how to do it using SpriteKit's Scene Editor here!

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/1514-introduction-to-the-sprite-kit-scene-editor
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How can I make the light stop shining basically though the wall? I know that it’s because the SKLightNode is illuminating the background and this background is one single node, but how can I prevent it?

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Defining Physicsd in Scene Builder
In the tutorial the settings for “Allows Rotation”, “Affected By Gravity” etc are all set in the Physics Definition section of the Attribute Inspector
http://www.raywenderlich.com /wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SKSE-image9.png (sry, i can only put 1 image in the post)

sadly, my Attribute Inspector looks rather different and my Physics Definition section lacks everything except the Body Type dropdown:

how do i get my Attributes Inspector to look like the one in the tutorial?

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Hey roebsi,

I just checked and you’re right – it looks like Apple changed the displayed options for the Alpha mask body type. If you pick one of the other two body types it still works, though :]

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ok, great, i’ll try it right away

also: thank you for the quick reply :smile:

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Hi, thanks for a nice tutorial! I join the ioswarrior question, how to avoid light shine through the walls?
And I have an additional problem: after you lose or win level, music won’t play again. How I’m able to fix it?

upd: Music muted because of transition. If you run music when transition is finished, everything will be okay.

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How do I get my player and walls to collide correctly? Both have physics applied to them but they arent interacting at all. My player and zombies can all move through walls

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to all who want to try this in Xcode 8 with Swift 3

here is a working starter version of the code

and here is a working final version of the code

do note, i am NOT a team member
all credit goes to the team member who made the original tutorial
i only updated the code to Swift 3.0 for myself and now I’m sharing it with you guys

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Thanks a bunch for sharing this, @kvebeeck :] !

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you are welcome
i believe in sharing work

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The reason the options aren’t displayed for alpha mask, is because you need to set a texture before setting the alpha mask. Once the texture is set, the options will be displayed.

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Hello,

i get everytime this error:

validateIndexBuffer:130: failed assertion `indexBufferOffset(12) + (indexCount(702) * 2) must be <= indexBuffer length.’

This cames after i implemented the “Light Node” and Lightning: Light Mask, Shadow Cast Mask and Shadowed Mask.

When i disable the “Metal API Validation”, then the App is hanging on. Sometimes i get a GPU hang on warning.

Can anyone help me? What i do wrong?

Thanks in advance!

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Thanks very much! this is my first project in Swift/Spritekit and I loved it! I’ll keep watching your tutorials to learn more

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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I am getting the same problem just with slightly different numbers. Has anybody managed to solve this issue yet, or know what to do? For me, this happened when i was nearing the end of the level & the character was not in contact with anything at the time.

validateIndexBuffer:130: failed assertion `indexBufferOffset(12) + (indexCount(480) * 2) must be <= [indexBuffer length] (960.

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This tutorial is more than six months old, so questions are no longer supported at the moment for it. We will update it as soon as possible. Thank you! :]