I am trying to make my sprite move/rotate independently of its parent node, so that the hitbox does not follow the sprite. I am trying to make the sprite smoothly sway side to side whilst the player is moving

I am trying to make my sprite move/rotate independently of it’s parent node, so that the hitbox does not follow the sprite. I am trying to make the sprite smoothly sway side to side whilst the player is moving

I create a new project, add a root Node2D called ‘Level’ and attach a script:

I have problems exporting a variable with a Node3D type to the engine.
I’m just learning C++ for godot and in the C++ guide there is a section with exporting variables
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I’m trying to export Node3D so it looks something like this
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but when I try to do this in C++, I get a lot of errors