Does animation tick at the same frame rate of main game loop?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hi guys, a bit of a basic question here.

  • I know that many game engines handle different jobs or tasks via multithreading differently. In UE4, I wonder, regardless of threads, whether it is always true that animation frames are synchronous with the game frames and(?) render frames?

> relevant note behind the question:
My issue at hand involves deciding whether to run a normal animation versus running the animation via game code pose-by-pose animating. The technical aspect of animating by the latter method is something that I have done in the past and it ran smoothly in prototyping, but I wonder whether the resulting animations of the two methods are actually identical from the a single frame perspective.

my regards.

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Yes, animation will tick once per rendered frame, just like typical game actors, unless you have animation LOD turned on.

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Thanks for helping.