Preloading textures displaying white screen in Sprite Kit while loading?

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Created Nov ’15

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I have the code in my viewDidLoad() function in my GameViewController.

SKTexture.preloadTextures(BGTextures, withCompletionHandler: { () -> Void in print("SKTextures have loaded.")})
skView.presentScene(startScene)

If I do this, the background displays a white image while the textures are loading since it has already moved to the startScene, and then background works, which looks ugly.

However, if I do it this way:

SKTexture.preloadTextures(BGTextures, withCompletionHandler: { () -> Void in skView.presentScene(startScene) })

It will load a complete white screen after the splash image is done, which also looks ugly. I would've imagine viewDidLoad() took place to load during the splash screen but it doesn't.

How do I preven white color from showing? I want the textures to load before the user sees anything.

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hareball OP

Nov ’15

I preload textures in didMoveToView, in the actual GameScene (i.e. not the GameViewController), and that seems to work ok. I only use the SKS scene file as a background, and create all the textures and sprites within the game scene code.

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