Disable Animation Based On Distance

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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…