Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies

Add Support for All Devices and Orientations

While not technically a heads-up display (HUD), the D-pad controller and Attack button share a similar quality in that they need to be visible at all times. At the moment, however, once the player moves beyond a certain point, the on-screen controls disappear.

One way to fix this “player movement/control visibility” problem—and the one generally recommended by Apple—is to make the HUD content a child of the camera node. That fix would look something like the image in the Scene Graph View.

While this isn’t a bad idea, it does limit what you’re able to do, so you’ll learn another way.

But this “player ...