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Applying Shaders to a Sprite

Write custom GLSL code that modifies the look of your sprite.

Overview

You can use the shader property of a sprite node to change the appearance of a texture with a custom OpenGL ES fragment shader embedded within a SKShader object. Custom shaders offer almost limitless possibilities, from adding blurs and color treatments to textures to generating imagery such as random noise.

The following code shows a small custom shader which inverts the color of a texture while leaving the alpha or transparency unaffected:

The following figure illustrates the effect of the shader. The original image, on the left, has its colors inverted by the shader:

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See Also

Adding a Custom Shader to a Sprite