How can I animate a Label's text color?

Question

I prototyped out an arcadey-style effect of flashing text (1980s "white-red-blue-white" cycle) using CanvasModulate + AnimationPlayer on a Label node, which worked great until I discovered that CanvasModulate affects everything on the scene, not just the node it's attached to.

Instead I decided to just change the text color directly for every label, except that whenever I open up the AnimationPlayer panel, I the option to select a custom color for the label disappears.

How can I animate a color change for a node?

EDIT: apparently a bug: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/7001

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whenever I open up the AnimationPlayer panel, I the option to select a custom color for the label disappears

Never seen this. Just tested and I can use the Font Color property of the Label in the AnimationPlayer just fine.

Answer 1

You most certainly should with Custom Colors > Font Color.

I'm not having any issues with it.

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Thanks for the sanity check. I think I've hit a bug -- or at least a very strange behavior -- in Godot. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/7001 -- for anyone else Googling, the "custom color" field disappears after you assign a label a theme, even though that field still works in the animator if animate it beforehand...

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Oh my, yeah that is a tricky. I wonder if it's like that because of the dynamic fonts.