so I have the RB2D collision layer just for collisions, and I have a area2d collision layer for detecting contact between cloned nodes, but it doesnt detect the two earth nodes touching unless I set the area2D collision mask to layer 1 and I’m not sure why.
You can create a Group for the planet then check in your code if that’s what the area is touching. Ex:
if body.is_in_group("planet"): #do somethingthat worked. thanks so much!