Duplicating a node on key input, adding it as a child and moving it with Vector2

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Duplicating a node on key input, adding it as a child and moving it with Vector2

Clickerty

I've tried so many different things, none of which worked which is why i'm asking this here. I've used the docs, other forum posts, i've even asked GPT-3 to give me something that can be used as an answer since i did do that before and it worked.
What i wanna do is duplicate an existing node, add the clone of the node as a child of the original node and move the clone with Vector2 at a predetermined speed. All of that needs to happen when a key is pressed.

My current code:

extends Sprite

onready var node = $"."
var speed = 8

func _process(delta):
    if Input.is_action_pressed("game_debug"): #this is enter
        var newnode = Sprite.new()
        newnode.set_name("nodeClone")
        newnode.add_child(node)
        newnode.move_toward(Vector2(0, 0), speed * delta)
    pass

there are multiple things wrong with this code alone and i might just be going crazy since this has been bothering me for the past like 8 days lmao help me please

SnapCracklins

Clickerty shouldn't this be in physics process?

DaveTheCoder

onready var node = $"."

If that's intended to refer to "this" node, you can use "self" instead of creating a new variable.

So this:
newnode.add_child(node)
can be changed to:
newnode.add_child(self)

That's adding "self" as a child of "nodeClone", the new Sprite. Is that your intent? Or do you want to add the new Sprite as a child of the current node?
self.add_child(newnode)
or equivalently:
add_child(newnode)