I've been racking my brain and searching here and all over to try to find out how to generate a random position on screen to spawn a circle. I'm hoping someone here can help me because I'm completely stumped. Basically, I'm trying to create a shape that always spawns in a random spot on screen when the user touches.
override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {
let screenSize: CGRect = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds
let screenHeight = screenSize.height
let screenWidth = screenSize.width
let currentBall = SKShapeNode(circleOfRadius: 100)
currentBall.position = CGPointMake(CGFloat(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(Float(screenWidth)))), CGFloat(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(Float(screenHeight)))))
self.removeAllChildren()
self.addChild(currentBall)
}
If you all need more of my code, there really isn't any more. But thank you for whatever help you can give! (Just to reiterate, this code kind of works... But a majority of the spawned balls seem to spawn offscreen)
The problem there is that you scene is bigger than your screen bounds
let viewMidX = view!.bounds.midX
let viewMidY = view!.bounds.midY
print(viewMidX)
print(viewMidY)
let sceneHeight = view!.scene!.frame.height
let sceneWidth = view!.scene!.frame.width
print(sceneWidth)
print(sceneHeight)
let currentBall = SKShapeNode(circleOfRadius: 100)
currentBall.fillColor = UIColor.greenColor()
let xPosition = view!.scene!.frame.midX - viewMidX + CGFloat(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(viewMidX*2)))
let yPosition = view!.scene!.frame.midY - viewMidY + CGFloat(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(viewMidY*2)))
print(xPosition)
print(yPosition)
currentBall.position = CGPointMake(xPosition,yPosition)
view?.scene?.addChild(currentBall)
self.removeAllChildren()
self.addChild(currentBall)
First: Determine the area that will be valid. It might not be the frame of the superview because perhaps the ball (let's call it ballView
) might be cut off. The area will likely be (in pseudocode):
CGSize( Width of the superview - width of ballView , Height of the superview - height of ballView)
Once you have a view of that size, just place it on screen with the origin
0, 0.
Secondly: Now you have a range of valid coordinates. Just use a random function (like the one you are using) to select one of them.
Create a swift file with the following:
extension Int
{
static func random(range: Range<Int>) -> Int
{
var offset = 0
if range.startIndex < 0 // allow negative ranges
{
offset = abs(range.startIndex)
}
let mini = UInt32(range.startIndex + offset)
let maxi = UInt32(range.endIndex + offset)
return Int(mini + arc4random_uniform(maxi - mini)) - offset
}
}
And now you can specify a random number as follows:
Int.random(1...1000) //generate a random number integer somewhere from 1 to 1000.
You can generate the values for the x and y coordinates now using this function.
Given the following random generators:
public extension CGFloat {
public static var random: CGFloat { return CGFloat(arc4random()) / CGFloat(UInt32.max) }
public static func random(between x: CGFloat, and y: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
let (start, end) = x < y ? (x, y) : (y, x)
return start + CGFloat.random * (end - start)
}
}
public extension CGRect {
public var randomPoint: CGPoint {
var point = CGPoint()
point.x = CGFloat.random(between: origin.x, and: origin.x + width)
point.y = CGFloat.random(between: origin.y, and: origin.y + height)
return point
}
}
You can paste the following into a playground:
import XCPlayground
import SpriteKit
let view = SKView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 500, height: 500))
XCPShowView("game", view)
let scene = SKScene(size: view.frame.size)
view.presentScene(scene)
let wait = SKAction.waitForDuration(0.5)
let popIn = SKAction.scaleTo(1, duration: 0.25)
let popOut = SKAction.scaleTo(0, duration: 0.25)
let remove = SKAction.removeFromParent()
let popInAndOut = SKAction.sequence([popIn, wait, popOut, remove])
let addBall = SKAction.runBlock { [unowned scene] in
let ballRadius: CGFloat = 25
let ball = SKShapeNode(circleOfRadius: ballRadius)
var popInArea = scene.frame
popInArea.inset(dx: ballRadius, dy: ballRadius)
ball.position = popInArea.randomPoint
ball.xScale = 0
ball.yScale = 0
ball.runAction(popInAndOut)
scene.addChild(ball)
}
scene.runAction(SKAction.repeatActionForever(SKAction.sequence([addBall, wait])))
(Just make sure to also paste in the random generators, too, or to copy them to the playground's Sources
, as well as to open the assistant editor so you can see the animation.)