SceneKit-Resources

A curated list of amazing SceneKit tutorials, projects and resources. Feel free to contribute.

Contents

• Tutorials
• Books
• Cources
• Forums
• Documentation
• Projects

Tutorials

• Inside SwiftShot: Creating an AR Game "WWDC18" - Apple.
• SceneKit: What's New "WWDC17" - Apple.
• SceneKit in Swift Playgrounds "WWDC17" - Apple.
• Advances in SceneKit Rendering "WWDC16" - Apple.
• Enhancements to SceneKit "WWDC15" - Apple.
• Building a Game with SceneKit "WWDC14" - Apple.
• What's New in SceneKit "WWDC14" - Apple.
• Scenekit Basics Part 1 - Geppy Parziale.
• Scenekit Basics Part 2 - Geppy Parziale.
• Scenekit for Beginners - Siddharth Shekar.
• An Introduction to SceneKit: Fundamentals - Davis Allie.
• Scene Kit Tutorial: Getting Started - Raywenderlich.
• 3D Apple Games by Tutorials - Raywenderlich.
• SceneKit Tutorial with Swift Part 1: Getting Started - Raywenderlich.
• SceneKit Tutorial with Swift Part 2: Nodes - Raywenderlich.
• SceneKit Tutorial with Swift Part 3: Physics - Raywenderlich.
• SceneKit Tutorial with Swift Part 4: Render Loop - Raywenderlich.
• SceneKit Tutorial with Swift Part 5: Particle Systems - Raywenderlich.
• iOS Swift 4 Tutorial: Create a Cool 3D Game with Scene Kit - Brian Advent.
• iOS Swift 4 Game Tutorial: Create 3D Levels with SceneKit Editor 🕹 - Brian Advent.
• iOS Swift Tutorial: Create a simple 3D Game with Scene Kit - Brian Advent.
• SceneKit Tutorial — From Zero to Hero Part 1 - Roger Boesch.
• SceneKit - From Zero to Hero, Part 2 - Roger Boesch.
• SceneKit - From Zero to Hero, Part 3 - Roger Boesch.
• SceneKit - From Zero to Hero, Part 4 - Roger Boesch.
• SceneKit - From Zero to Hero, Part 5 - Roger Boesch.
• SceneKit - From Zero to Hero, Part 6 - Roger Boesch.
• Introduction to Vector Mathematics - Andrew Zimmerman Jones.
• SceneKit to show 3D content in Swift 5 - Lito.
• Combining the Power of SpriteKit and SceneKit - Davis Allie.
• Mapbox Scene Kit SDK for iOS - Mapbox.
• The Match-up: SceneKit or Unity for ARKit? - Daniel Wyszynski.
• An Introduction to SceneKit: User Interaction, Animations & Physics - Davis Allie.
• Scenekit for Absolute Beginners - Evan Bacon.
• Building an AR app with ARKit and Scenekit - Esteban Herrera.
• iOS 9: Additions to SceneKit - Davis Allie.
• SceneKit in Mountain Lio - Jonathan Blocksom.
• 3D with SceneKit - davidronnqvist.
• The math behind transforms - davidronnqvist.
• importing .dae models into SceneKit - Benoît Layer.
• 3D Weather with SceneKit: aka Karl the Fog in AR - Jim Martin.
• Pyobjc-framework-SceneKit 6.2 - Ronaldoussoren.
• SceneKit in iOS 8: Explained - Peter Cohen.
• Getting started with scenekit - RipTutorial.
• Introduction To SceneKit – Part 1 - Silviu Pop.
• Building a Simple ARKit Demo with SceneKit in Swift 4 and Xcode 9 - AppCoda.
• Making Augmented Reality app easily with Scenekit + Vuforia - Akira108.
• SpriteKit vs. SceneKit: Adding Animation to iOS Games & Apps - Carey Wodehouse.
• Import Cheetah3D Model in SceneKit - Meon.
• Metal Integration with SceneKit: SCNShadable fragment Injection - RedQueenGraphics.
• First SceneKit project - Bacpeters.
• Importing 3D Models for ARKit using SceneKit editor - John Marstall.

Books

• iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook: Simple Solutions for Game Development Problems 3rd Edition - Jon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison.
• iOs Swift Game Development Cookbook: Simple Solutions for Game Development Problems 2nd Edition - Jon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison.
• Swift Game Development: Learn iOS 12 game development using SpriteKit, SceneKit and ARKit 2.0, 3rd Edition - Stephen Haney, Siddharth Shekar.
• Beginning Swift Games Development for iOS: Develop 2D and 3D games Using Apple's SceneKit and SpriteKit 2nd Edition - James Goodwill, Wesley Matlock.
• 3D Apple Games by Tutorials Second Edition: Beginning 3D Apple Game Development with Swift 4 2nd Edition - Raywenderlich.com Team, Chris Language.

Cources

• The Comprehensive Guide to Scene Kit - 3D iOS Development - Ibram Uppal.
• Create a 3D Game using SceneKit and Swift - Valsamis Elmaliotis.
• ARKit & SceneKit Fundamentals - Alex Nagy.
• Augmented Reality with iOS • Build 15 Real world apps - Romain Derrien.
• Intro to SceneKit. An easy to use iOS 3D framework - Kevin Healy.

Documentation

• Official documentation - by Apple.

Projects

• ARTetris - Augmented Reality Tetris made with ARKit and SceneKit.
• Herebedragons - A basic 3D scene implemented with SceneKit.
• Tic-Tac-Toe - Tic-Tac-Toe implemented using ARKit & SceneKit.
• Assimpkit - A library (macOS, iOS) that converts the files supported by Assimp to Scene Kit scenes.
• Arkit Occlusion - A demonstration of vertical planes "tracking" and occlusions with ARKit & SceneKit.
• Argithubcommits - Show your GitHub commit records in 3D with ARKit & SceneKit.
• Arkit Smb Homage - An implementation of a Super Mario Bros-like game in augmented reality with ARKit & SceneKit.
• Dddkit - 360 video player for iOS written in swift - a subset of SceneKit that actually works.
• Arkit Portal - Simple portal demo implemented with ARKit & SceneKit, the trick is to change the rendering order and render invisible "masks" to hide what's inside.
• Arkit Shell Game - Shell Game built with ARKit & SceneKit.

Forums

• Apple Developer Forums - Apple.
• Stack Overflow Questions - Stack Overflow.
• Game Development Questions - Stack Exchange.
• Swift Forums - Swift.org.

Contributing

Please take a quick look at the contribution guidelines first. If you see a resource or project here that is no longer valid or is not a good fit, please submit a pull request to improve this list. Thanks to all contributors.