Any suggestions on how to pause the game without using Time.timeScale?

Questions & Answers
1

I’d like to have animation on the pause screen, so using Time.timeScale isn’t desirable. Is there any other way to pause the game, perhaps by layer or group?

2

Define a boolean variable and check as below where you want to pause which method.

if(!isGamePause)
    DoSomething();

I hope that will help you and sorry for my English :slight_smile:

3

You could create a class inherited from Monobehaviour with a custom update function running on coroutines and realtime. Then, you can easily pause anything inheriting from it. Example in C# :

public class TimedMonoBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
    protected float timeScale = 1f;
    protected bool paused = false;
    protected deltaTime{ get; private set; } // Can be used in sub-classes

    private float lastUpdate = 0f;
    
    private IEnumerator Start()
    {
        while( Application.isPlaying )
        {
            deltaTime = (Time.realtimeSinceStartup - lastUpdate) * timeScale;
            lastUpdate = Time.realtimeSinceStartup;

            // Might be problematic to unpause, 
            // inputs shouldn't be in TimedUpdate.
            if( !paused ) 
                TimedUpdate();
            yield return null;
        }
    }
    protected virtual void TimedUpdate(){} // Replace Update
}

And then, when you create a new script

public class SomeStuff : TimedMonoBehaviour 
{
    protected override void TimedUpdate()
    {
        transform.Translate( new Vector3( deltaTime * 10f, 0f, 0f ) );
    }
}

I haven’t tested any of it, so be careful. Physic won’t be affected at all though.