Individual particles and physics in Sprite Kit

Question

I am a long time user of Stackoverflow but first post.

My question is seemingly simple, is there a way to make particles from an emitter interact with the physics sprites in the scene? (For example, if I am using a particle for rain, and I want it to bounce or bumpy off a sprite of a man with an umbrella. There must be a way, but I don't see a lot of documentation on adding physics to individual particles. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

No. There is no way to make SpriteKit's built in particles interact with physics bodies. Every particle property you can control is a property of SKEmitterNode, and it has no properties for setting physics behavior for particles.

The fact is that particles are designed to be very light-weight so that you can have thousands of them on any hardware supported by SpriteKit. Physics simulation is not light-weight.