How to play skeletal animation when paused?

Unreal Engine Character & Animation
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#1

We use SceneCapture2D and Rendertarget to display 3D skeletal mesh in UI.

But as the UI poped up, we just make the game pause.

As a result, the skeletal mesh animation just does not update, which makes the UI not refresh.

How to make the skeletal mesh still play animation even when paused?

#2

If you are using C++, you can create your own component inheriting from USkeletalMeshComponent and override method ShouldTickPose, which should simply return true

#3

Thanks for your answer, it work but not as I want.

The Apex Cloth on my skeletal mesh does not work when paused. And My Character looks bad.

#4

Hey Noah, I know this is an old thread but did you find a solution?

#5

I just tried this technique and it does not work.

#6

It’s a shame this never got answered, I have literally the exact same issue.

#7

In a Blueprint you can set by every component include skeletal Mesh->tickable when paused, if you set this to true you can play animation when your game is paused :slight_smile: