AnimationPlayer in between scenes

[tawny magnet]

Never animate the root node's position, you can a child of the scene and it will work fine since it will be relative to it's parent's position

Consider making the root node something other than the Area, where the area is a child, or animate the collision shape instead

[brazen hamlet]

So I’ll have to use an animationplayer everytime I put a new pickup?

Wait, could I put the animation on the sprite, which is a child note of the area node?

[prime rover]

perhaps if you show the node tree, it would make the choice of which node to animate clearer

[brazen hamlet]

Yeah I can’t do that right now. I’m at work

But it’s something like this

-Area2D
-Sprite 2D
-Collision2D
-Particles2D
-AnimationPlayer

[potent night]

If I were you I'd go to the brackeys tutorial he just made and watch the platforms section. Do that way. Then you can just save the animation player as a scene so you don't have to actually touch it every time.

Basically make the animation player part of the root scene if you are sure that all instances will always be moving the same way

[brazen hamlet]

Thank you! Helps a lot

[brazen hamlet]

I have to link the animationplayer to a node first before applying an animation, so i dont think this would work

[potent night]

You can't just attach it to the animatablebody2d?

[prime rover]

try using a different root node for your object; Area2D is more of a property of, say, a Sprite2D or a Node2D