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(I am using v.3 and the perspective is top-down)I want to create a "chain" where there would be several collision objects but only the 1st one is controlled by the keyboard/controller and the rest of them fall behind and follow the movements of the first one(Like Badeline from Celeste). I have tried making the different objects follow me individually but they would clump up together and not stay in a line how do I hold them in place? Sorry for any confusing writing

The way I'd do it would be to store the inputs received by the head of the chain, and pass those inputs with a delay to the next object in the chain. If each object in the chain passed the inputs to the next, I think it should recreate the effect you're talking about.

I think something like this would work:

var head_of_chain = true
var delay = 1.0
var next_obj_in_chain

var input_store = []

func _input(event):
	if head_of_chain:
		manage_input(event)

func manage_input(event):
	if event.is_action_pressed("up"):
		up()
	elif event.is_action_pressed("down"):
		down()
	elif event.is_action_pressed("right"):
		right()
	elif event.is_action_pressed("left"):
		left()
	input_store.append([event, 0.0])

func _process(delta):
	var inputs_to_delete = []
	for idx in range(len(input_store)):
		input_store[idx][1] += delta
		if input_store[idx][1] > delay:
			next_obj_in_chain.manage_input(input_store[idx][0])
			inputs_to_delete.append(idx)
	inputs_to_delete.invert()
	for idx in inputs_to_delete:
		input_store.remove(idx)

This mostly did the trick but I had to modify It would not be rotated if it was not the "head_of_chain" I'm currently working on making them rotate towards each other now to give a more "snake" feel. Thank you for all the help!

a year later