# Warping SpriteKit Content By Using an Effect Node Distort the child nodes of an effect node by applying a warping effect. ## Discussion If you want to warp a node that doesn’t conform to [`SKWarpable`](/documentation/SpriteKit/SKWarpable), you can add it as a child to an effect node that is warped. As an implementor of `SKWarpable`, effect node inherits the [`SKWarpGeometry`](/documentation/SpriteKit/SKWarpGeometry) property that you assign one of the [`SKWarpGeometry`](/documentation/SpriteKit/SKWarpGeometry) types to then warp the effect node’s children. ### Warp Text By Using an Effect Node [`SKLabelNode`](/documentation/SpriteKit/SKLabelNode) is one such class that doesn’t conform to `SKWarpable`. The following Swift code shows how you can warp a label node by adding it as a child to a [`SKEffectNode`](/documentation/SpriteKit/SKEffectNode) and assign the effect node a [`SKWarpGeometryGrid`](/documentation/SpriteKit/SKWarpGeometryGrid) that pulls out the corners horizontally and stretches the center vertically. ```swift let labelNode = SKLabelNode(text: "SpriteKit") labelNode.fontColor = UIColor.blue labelNode.fontSize = 144 let effectNode = SKEffectNode() effectNode.addChild(labelNode) let destinationPositions: [vector_float2] = [ vector_float2(-0.1, 1), vector_float2(0.5, 1.3), vector_float2(1.1, 1), vector_float2(0.1, 0.5), vector_float2(0.5, 0.5), vector_float2(0.9, 0.5), vector_float2(-0.1, 0), vector_float2(0.5, -0.3), vector_float2(1.1, 0) ] let warpGeometryGrid = SKWarpGeometryGrid(columns: 2, rows: 2) effectNode.warpGeometry = warpGeometryGrid.replacingByDestinationPositions(positions: destinationPositions) ``` The following image shows the warped label.  --- Copyright © 2026 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. | [Terms of Use](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.html) | [Privacy Policy](https://www.apple.com/privacy/privacy-policy)