How to play skeletal animation when paused?

anonymous_user_7991bfbe · August 8, 2016, 10:54am

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?

anonymous_user_c321e81b · August 10, 2016, 9:57am

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

anonymous_user_7991bfbe · August 11, 2016, 3:05am

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.

anonymous_user_2a2a42e0 · June 21, 2017, 3:40am

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

anonymous_user_57741f591 · January 2, 2018, 4:20am

I just tried this technique and it does not work.

anonymous_user_d28f9466 · May 29, 2018, 2:38pm

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

HajimeXNagumo · August 23, 2018, 12:15am

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