Pause Timeline - Keep Cinemachine alive?

[dmennenoh]

I’d like to pause a timeline but keep the Cinemachine virtual camera still working? Now when I pause and then resume, there is a camera hiccup.

[dmennenoh]

Found the answer in this thread:

Question about Timeline Pausing and Virtual Camera Priority

Hi all, In my current setup, there are several instances where we manually pause the timeline using an outside custom TimelineManager object. Usually we do this to wait for a character to move to a specific spot or wait until a certain input has been received or for dialogue to finish, etc. However, I’ve noticed that when we call Timeline.Pause() (or whatever the function’s called), Cinemachine automatically selects the camera with the highest priority to view the scene through. In order to pr…

Essentially though, instead of playableDirector.Pause() you use:
playableDirector.playableGraph.GetRootPlayable(0).SetSpeed(0);

and then SetSpeed(1) to resume.

[PhaetonLT]

Just a quick question - do you pause the timeline using a script (incl.the SetSpeed line) on an object being activated by an activation track, or a signal that runs a script with the SetSpeed(0) line?
From my experience it seemed that the signal pauses the timeline better than an activated object that has the same script for setting timeline pause. But looking at things now I am considering of getting back to the dirty way of making aditional activation track for a game object containing “PauseTimeline” script.