Make Color.hex constant

[mageowl]

Describe the project you are working on

RPG roguelike with arrays of colors used to modify textures based on skin tone

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

A constant array provides a performance boost, but is harder to read than using the Color.hex method.

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Make Color.hex(...) a constant function so it can be used in constant arrays.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

const MY_COLOR = Color.hex(0xffffff)

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

No, because constant functions cannot be defined with GDScript.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

Color is a basic type in GDScript.

[AThousandShips]

Do you mean compile time evaluated? Because it can't be const because it's static and const doesn't make any sense for static methods, this is more a limitation in the GDScript compiling generally and not specific to Color.hex

[KoBeWi]

You can use constructor instead of static method

const MY_COLOR = Color(0xffffffff)

[mageowl]

Thanks, I didn't realize this worked. I don't think it's documented.

[KoBeWi]

Turns out it's not a constructor, but an implicit conversion operator.
This works too:

const MY_COLOR: Color = 0xffffffff