Alpha'ing HudText Layers : Possible?

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I would like to fade the hud in and out at particular moments, but using Entity Alpha on layer\mesh does nothing, so is it not possible or am I just going about it the wrong way?

Erk.. I meant FonText, not HudText.. :/