Manipulate particles spawned by SKEmitterNode

Question

I want to emit particles using SKEmitterNode within a macOS app to create an effect similar to rain. No problem so far.

What I’m not able to figure out is: Is it possible to let these emitted particles respond i.e. to mouseEvents, and if so, how?

Answer 1

I'm afraid not.

From the SKEmitter class reference docs at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/spritekit/skemitternode

Particles are not represented by objects in SpriteKit. This means you cannot perform node-related tasks on particles, nor can you associate physics bodies with particles to make them interact with other content.

and

Particles are purely visual objects, and their behavior is entirely defined by the emitter node that created them.