How to pause everything except GameInstance?

anonymous_user_089a4978 · September 27, 2016, 2:12am

How can I pause everything in the game except the GameInstance?

This is a mobile game so it also should be a cheap method.

Custom time dilation for each actor is an expensive method but it doesn’t work for me because GameMode doesn’t get affected from CustomTileDilation variable. I use GetGameMode node and connect it to SetCustomTimeDilation(0) node but it doesn’t actually set it.

So, I can pause everything except GameMode and GameInstance but I can’t pause GameMode with this method. It probably doesn’t implement CustomTimeDilation varibale correctly, it looks like a bug.

anonymous_user_97f3b6151 · September 27, 2016, 9:20am

Well, there is something like “execute console command” and write there “slomo 0”, but I’m not sure about results for game instance.

BTW: Why bug reports?

anonymous_user_089a4978 · September 27, 2016, 12:16pm

slomo 0 is also pausing GameInstance too.

I was a little bit sleepy last night so I forgot to write the bug. I added it now, thanks for reminding.

Yata · September 27, 2016, 1:05pm

You can check Tick on Pause in actor I believe.
And than use Pause game, not setting time dilation to 0.

anonymous_user_089a4978 · September 27, 2016, 1:23pm

Unfortunately that option does not exist in GameInstance class.

Yata · September 27, 2016, 1:48pm

I am sure GameInstance does not have Tick at all. In our project we “tick” gameinstance form GameState.

anonymous_user_089a4978 · September 27, 2016, 2:35pm

Yes GameInstance doesn’t tick every frame by itself but there are timers inside GameInstance that are ticking.

For example there is a socket connection module inside it. It should send connection validation to server every 5 seconds, fired by a timer. But that timer doesn’t fire if I pause the game or set time dilation to 0.

I will try ticking from GameState.

anonymous_user_089a4978 · September 27, 2016, 3:00pm

I just tried your suggestion. But it didn’t work out.

I set GameState as ticking even when paused.
Fired event from GameState every second.
Followed the string printed from GameInstance.

Result: Timer in the GameState stops when I pause the game.

EDIT: I managed to get it fired by using it inside Event Tick. I added WorldTickTime to a float and every time it exceeds 5, I fired the event and works fine now. Thanks for your help!