---
title: centerRect
framework: spritekit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: spritekit/skspritenode/centerrect
---

# centerRect

Enable nine-part stretching of the sprite’s texture.

## Declaration

```swift
var centerRect: CGRect { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Resizing a Sprite in Nine Parts Animating a Sprite by Changing its Texture

## Discussion

Discussion Controls how the texture is stretched to fill the SKSpriteNode. The argument rectangle is in the unit coordinate space with a default value of (0,0)-(1.0,1.0), which indicates that the entire texture is stretched to fill the sprite. If instead you define a different rectangle, its coordinates are used to break the texture into a 3 x 3 grid that is scaled like the following: The four corners of this grid are applied without performing any scaling. The upper and lower-middle parts are scaled horizontally The left and right-middle parts are scaled vertically The center is scaled in all directions. This is what’s referred to as a 9-part scaling algorithm.

## See Also

### Scaling a Sprite in Nine Parts

- [Resizing a Sprite in Nine Parts](spritekit/resizing-a-sprite-in-nine-parts.md)