How to make a sword swing like in this video

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the animation looks procedural

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It is pretty easy to do this, first you gotta add the nodes he used.
Also don’t forget to make the hitbox the child of sword_sprite.
Use an animation_player to create a simple animation(The animation is not procedural rather it moves and rotates at a fixed value). To attack in all directions he just rotates the whole node containing everything. In this way

 Node2D
    ┠╴Sprite2d
    ┃  ┖╴Hit_Box(Area)
    ┃     ┖╴CollisionShape2D
    ┖╴AnimationPlayer
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Thank you for the answer!
I wondering how he made the swing effect (the swing trail), it looks procedural, the author answered in comments " I just keyframed a Polygon2D node into a crescent shape within the swing animation player, fast way to get something testable". Can you explain it?

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Dont know that much about godot just started using it.

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What the author meant is that they animated the polygon2d with animation player and just played the animation when you swing the sword. Checkout how to use animation player node.

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