Are there some node parenting rules?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By ether

For example in Unity sprite may have rigidbody2d ,
something like sprite would have a child node rigidbody2d in Godot style.

But in Godot it looks usually RigidBody2D has sprite as a child.
So how to know what to parent to what in Godot in general?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: magicalogic

Depends on the behavior you want to achieve.
For instance if you want to use a scene as a physics body with much of the behavior for “free” you use nodes like rigidbody2d but if you want to implement your own physics you can just use a sprite only.