How to programmatically add a model in RealityKit

Oscar de la Hera Gomez
Three flowers that represent SwiftUI, RealityKit and XCode side by side. Beneath them sits the text "Programmatically Add Content".

To programmatically add a model to a window, volume or space, use a RealityView, load the model and add it to the RealityView's content.

The code for the demonstration detailed on this post can be found at the tutorials/immersive-spaces/position-scale-and-rotation-with-animation branch within the repository below.

A screenshot of XCode showing how to programmatically add content to an RealityView.

Specifically, the code that adds content to a window, volume or space is found within the body, where it loads an entity (i.e. scene) and then adds it the element using content.add(scene).

This content parameter is gathered from the RealityView's closure (i.e. { content in ... }).

A screenshot of the simulator showing the model in space.

If you run similar code in the simulator, you will see a result similar to the one above.

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