Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies

Resize the Player Node on Device Rotation

In ​Setting the Camera’s Viewport​, you learned about the camera’s viewport and how certain camera settings, like its position and scale, have an inverse effect on how the scene renders. Armed with that information, you can solve the problem of the resizing player.

Still inside the GameScene.swift file, add the following code to the didChangeLayout() method:

let w = view?.bounds.size.width ?? 1024
let h = view?.bounds.size.height ?? 1336

if h >= w { // portrait, which matches the design
  camera?.setScale(1.0)
} else {
  camera?.setScale(1.25) // helps to keep relative size
  // larger numbers results in "smaller" scenes
}

This code first checks the height and width of the view ...