Disable Animation Based On Distance

[Leomerya12]

Hello,

Can’t find a clear answer to this online. Is there a way to deactivate/disable animations based on distance analogous to culling objects based on distance?

[3dRaven]

You can enable Update Rate Optimizations in the skeletal mesh, to further optimize you can set tick to be enabled only when rendered (if needed).

You can also use AnimUpdateRateTick

Animation LOD or how to not use AnimUpdateRateTick

Ok, short version: since switching to UE 4.22 I got some weird animation related debug output on the screen. Asking here several times was to no avail no answer as usual, so I did some more digging. Turns out there is a flagin a skinned mesh component bDisplayDebugUpdateRateOptimizations that turns this on or off. You can do that through BP or in C++. While researching that I came across the framework to have some sort of anim LOD meaning that anims are updated only every X frames. The tooltip h…

[Leomerya12]

…Ahhkay.

This looks promising. It’ll be a while before I can come to it in earnest. I have a strategy that I was going to implement, but if there are native functions that can save me time, I’ll all for it.

I’ll have to test it to see if it works as I expect it to.

This doesn’t always happen.

Thank you!