How to interrupt SpriteKit and resume as if there were no interruptions

Question

I would like to interrupt the sequence below for 2 seconds and return to where it would be if it were not interrupted in the first place.

For example, from the code below, if I interrupted the sequence for 2 seconds, making the sprite visible from 1.5 to 3.5 seconds in the sequence (which means that in 1 second the hideInterval action plus the showSprite action and 0.5 second action showInterval will be skipped), the interrupt will end for 2.5 seconds remaining for the showInterval action. How can I make a sprite run an action for the remaining 2.5 seconds and continue with a normal sequence at this point.

Note that this example is for clarity, although I would prefer a more general way to resume a sequence after an interrupt.

  let hideSprite = SKAction.fadeAlpha(to: 0, duration: 0.5) let showSprite = SKAction.fadeAlpha(to: 100, duration: 0.5) let hideInterval = SKAction.wait(forDuration: 2) let showInterval = SKAction.wait(forDuration: 3) let spriteSequence = SKAction.sequence([hideSprite, hideInterval, showSprite, showInterval]) sprite.runAction(SKAction.repeatForever(spriteSequence)) 

UPDATE

I think the following diagram will make my question more understandable and explain further what I want to achieve with interruption of the sequence.

Answer 1

To interrupt a sequence of actions like yours, you can simply pause your sprite with:

 sprite.isPaused = true 

and resume the action you can perform:

 sprite.isPaused = false 

To do some specific action after a while, you can simply do:

 sprite.run(SKAction.wait(forDuration: 2.5),completion:{ print("after 2.5 sec do..") }) 

To answer your “general method to stop the sequence of actions”, you cannot pause the sequence of actions, for example, using the parameters speed to 0, the sequence does not respond how it temporarily reacts to a normal action, because it is an action that performs a sequence of actions sequentially . An example or explanation of my words can be when you can have an action reporting sub-actions / code that calls other scenes / calls to other methods, so it is impossible to stop the sequence using conventional well-known methods.