How to stop and resume AI animation.

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You can use the Set Actor Tick Enabled node to disable ticking for the enemies, effectively pausing their behavior.

You can then get the enemy’s animation instance using the GetMesh > GetAnimInstance node, then call the Montage_Pause node to pause the animations. If your enemies use simple animations, you can pause them directly using Set Play Rate and setting it to 0.

Then you can use a delay node as a timer and use the Set Actor Tick Enabled node to re-enable ticking.
Then use the Montage_Resume or set the Play Rate back to 1 to resume animations.

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