CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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sicvayne
sicvayne

Reputation: 620

SpriteKit scene editor

In my GameScene.sks file, I have the player with the GameScene as the parent and a SKLabelNode as the child of the player. Within the GameScene.sks file, I have the text as 0 and the following code within GameScene.swift file

playerHealthLbl = childNode(withName: "playerHealthLbl") as? SKLabelNode
playerHealthLbl?.text = String(200)

The issue here is that whenever I build and run my project, the .SKLableNode.text is still equal to 0 instead of 200. I made sure that the name in GameScene.sks file is the same as GameScene.swift file. Also, if I switch the SKLabelNode's parent to the scene itself, then the text changes to 200. Any ideas why? Please advise.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 286

Answers (1)

Ron Myschuk
Ron Myschuk

Reputation: 6071

because the label is a child of player not self

childNode(withName: "playerHealthLbl") is the same as self.childNode(withName: "playerHealthLbl")

and self is the scene (in this instance), and scene doesn't have a child named "playerHealthLbl"

so you want to do player.childNode(withName: "playerHealthLbl")

or childNode(withName: "//playerHealthLbl") which transverses through all children regardless of layer

Upvotes: 1

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