Can't animate shader uniform after disabling node

[pennMikeGoldberg]

Cocos Creator version

3.8.7

System information

Mac, Android, iPhone

Issue description

After disabling and enabling a node, playing an animation that sets a shader uniform property no longer works.

I added a video of the bug and screenshot of the animation setup. In the video you can observe that hover and pressed play an animation which:

a. scales a sprite
b. sets a u_Darken uniform property to dim the sprite

After toggling the node to be active = false, then active = true. You'll see the scale property still animates, but the dimming (via the shader property) no longer works.

Screen.Recording.2025-10-01.at.2.33.49.PM.mov

Relevant error log output

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Steps to reproduce

1. Create a sprite
2. add a shader material
3. create 2 animations, where each animation sets a shader property to a different value
4. create a component/script that plays one animation on mouse enter, and another on mouse leave
5. create a separate node that's just a button with a component that lets you toggle active to true/false on the sprite

a. observe on first load, the sprite will animate the shader property on mouse enter
b. set the sprite to inactive/active
c. observe the mouse enter/leave animations no longer set the shader property

Minimal reproduction project

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