Animations are broken when characters are not rendered

Hi,

I have some AI characters created with MetaHuman. I use live retargeting. Created a clean duplication of “BP_ThirdPersonCharacter” and used it as parent for MetaHumans.

If I do not look the characters, their animations get messed up.

In both parent blueprint and MetaHuman blueprints, I set the “Visibility Based Anim Tick Option” as “Always Tick Pose and Refresh Bones”. But didn’t help. I could not find any solution. Any thoughts?

Thanks.