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I am playing around trying to learn swift and I am trying to have a brick sprite placed every time a person's touch ends. I'm new and not quite sure of if or how this is possible with spriteKit. I would like to have the brick interact with physics so if there is another way to do this without creating new sprites that would work as well

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Just add the method touchesEnded to your class, create a new SpriteNode and add it to your scene. Something like this: 

func touchesEnded(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
   let yourNode = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "brick.png") //or the name of the brick texture file, if you have one
   yourNode.position = CGPoint(x: 100, y: 100) 
   self.addChild(yourNode)
}

Here we added the node to (100,100), but you could add it to the location of the touch, adding this inside the method:

for touch in touches {
    let location = touch.location(in: self)
    yourNode.position = location
}

Remember to import SpriteKit to your class.

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    Oh, okay. In this case, try something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39020344/11535394 It is in Swift 3.0 but the idea is the same, and probably only a few things changed for Swift 5. – Maria Apr 30 '20 at 21:49
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    It probably would. You just have to check if the touch location is inside the position of any of the array's nodes (use `.contains()` for that), then move that specific node. – Maria Apr 30 '20 at 21:54
  • Thank you so much for the reply, I never have been much good at asking questions and the problem is that I would like to be able to use the nodes outside of that func. For example, I want to be able to tap on it and drag to change its position and I can't access the variable from the touches moved func. Thank you again! EDIT: I am thinking of creating a global arrayList and a function that adds brick sprites to that arraylist and have the touches functions simply refer to a specific item in the arraylist, would that work? – User9123 Apr 30 '20 at 21:54