How to run an animation on a label node right as it becomes visible?

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How to run an animation on a label node right as it becomes visible?

schmo

So I'm trying to program a tutorial for my game, and in it, there are label nodes that pop up to teach you certain mechanics. I have AnimationPlayer nodes as childs of the labels to animate them popping. I want the first one to pop right after a timer I have hooked up to it ends and makes the node visible, but when I run the game, after the timer ends, the node becomes visible for a split second and then the pop-in animation plays. I want the pop-in animation to play right as the node becomes visible. How would I accomplish that?

Here is the code I run right as the timer ends:
This just makes the label visible and plays the pop animation on it.

DaveTheCoder

What about adding a track to the animation that makes the label visible at the beginning?

the_maven

Wouldn't be better to animate the two, the Popup and the FX animation, perhaps each in own scene, so that the FX animation could be instanced easily?
And time (sync) each one in the AnimationPlayer, then you would have no need to code a timer in script.