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Create Beautiful Text Effects in SwiftUI With SpriteKit
Integrate SpriteKit and Core Image filters into your SwiftUI app
The other day, I came across a brilliant article by Artturi Jalli. It uses SpriteKit to create a background to a SwiftUI login interface. A living, moving background.
Just a few weeks earlier, I watched Apple announce that they were now supporting attributed strings in SwiftUI. This capability was documented by @Zheng.
As I mulled over these two articles, two thoughts collided. You see, I have an idea for a game that I want to develop, but it needs a stonking title. I loved Artturi’s idea of a SpriteKit background but needed something different. Something with words, an animated attributed string, but I also didn’t want to limit my market to devices running iOS15.
With that in the back of my mind, I recalled a special node within SpriteKit called SKCropNode. This is a node for masking SpriteNodes, which have been available since iOS 7.0 (so on all working iOS devices).
Could I use the SKCropNode to build my own attributed string of sorts for my next app’s stonking titles? Join me on a journey to explore what I can do with an SKCropNode.
