SwiftUI - integrating with SceneKit

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Created Jun ’20

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Wwdc20-10041 mentions that SceneKit can be now be imported into SwiftUI.

Before, the way to do that was using UIViewRepresentable, so we can display a scene of ship for ex.

What would be the new way to show the ship on a SwiftUI view?

Answered by Apple Designer in 613986022

Howdy!

You can now import both SwiftUI and SceneKit and pass along your scenes, nodes, to a SceneView that can be configured to render your scene inside your hierarchy.

Example:

Code Block import SwiftUI
import SceneKit
struct ContentView: View {
		var scene = SCNScene(named: "MyScene")
		
		var cameraNode: SCNNode? {
				scene?.rootNode.childNode(withName: "camera", recursively: false)
		}
		
		var body: some View {
				SceneView(
						scene: scene,
						pointOfView: cameraNode,
						options: []
				)
		}
}

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Apple Designer OP

Apple

Jun ’20

Accepted Answer

Howdy!

You can now import both SwiftUI and SceneKit and pass along your scenes, nodes, to a SceneView that can be configured to render your scene inside your hierarchy.

Example:

Code Block import SwiftUI
import SceneKit
struct ContentView: View {
		var scene = SCNScene(named: "MyScene")
		
		var cameraNode: SCNNode? {
				scene?.rootNode.childNode(withName: "camera", recursively: false)
		}
		
		var body: some View {
				SceneView(
						scene: scene,
						pointOfView: cameraNode,
						options: []
				)
		}
}

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Answer 2

manemanero OP

Jun ’20

This is awesome! : )

No lab for SceneKit This year? How can I get more examples, on how to interact SwiftUI with SceneKit? Like for example touching and change texture of a model?

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Answer 3

RamsayCons OP

Jun ’20

Interesting .. I was struggling with this too and the example helped. One question, though. We don't know what is contained in "MyScene" but I assumed that it contained a node called "camera" for the pointOfView (POV) parameter, else cameraNode would be nil.

So I put my scene in place of "MyScene" and ran it. Imagine my surprise when it rendered in the view, even though I have no POV node in my model. Just to be sure I changed the SceneView creation to:

Code Block SceneView(scene: scene, pointOfView: nil, options: [])

and it still rendered nicely. So SceneView has a default POV, which makes sense given pointOfView is an optional, but its location is not documented (it looks to be somewhere outside the model on the +Z axis). In fact, scene is optional too, which leaves me wondering what:

Code Block SceneView()

means? Are there ways to provide values for those optionals after the SceneView is created?

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