Pause Game excluding specific class?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Is it possible to do this?

I checked the source code and I see that the original Game Pause function actually comes from this:


UWorld* const World = GEngine->GetWorldFromContextObject( WorldContextObject );
APlayerController* const PC = World->GetFirstPlayerController();
World->GetAuthGameMode()->SetPause(PC);

As far as I see, this gets the first Player Controller (which I’m assuming it is the World’s controller) and then uses a pointer to the world to set the pause state to the whole world. However, what I want is to pause everything in the world except for a specific class I want to exclude. Is this possible? I’ve been digging through the code but I couldn’t get any answers.

Thanks in advance for the help.

2

Maybe modify CustomTimeDilation.

3

But as far as I read, CustomTimeDilation cannot be set to 0 because it breaks some of the game logic the engine uses, so that’s out of question.

EDIT:
Plus, that wouldn’t make much sense, wouldn’t it? If I could set Time Dilation to 0, then I would have to set the Custom Time Dilation of the class I want to exclude to infinity.

4

If you could set it to 0, you would set all others actors time dilation to 0. Check it out maybe.

5

But that’s not a solution. In UDK you could set Time Dilation to 0 and all actors would stop, but in UE4 Time Dilation cannot be set to 0. Setting it to 0 just makes time go reeeeally slow, but it’s not fully stopped.

6

Maybe negative values?

7

Using negative values is the same as setting it to 0. The end result is the same. It won’t pause the game.

8

Here is some reference:

Just turn off the ticking of all actors except the oens you want to move.

9

Enabling or disabling ticking doesn’t have anything to do with enabling or disabling the rendering of actors. If I disable the ticking of an actor, it just disables the ticking event when the game is paused.

I can enable ticking in the class I want, but still, since what I want is to play an animation during pause, the animation won’t update just because I play it in the ticking event.