updateWhenOffscreen/cullingType = AnimationCullingType.AlwaysAnimate not working

[system]

Hey there,

I have a skinned character mesh. In one of the animations, the character walks out of the screen. The animation is done in a way, that the character walk out of its origin. The animation of the caracter pauses, if he walked out of the screen. But I want the animation to continue, because that gamelogic waits for it. I have the following code:

//1
foreach ( SkinnedMeshRenderer r in skaterModel.GetComponentsInChildren<SkinnedMeshRenderer>() )
	r.updateWhenOffscreen = true;
		
//2
foreach ( Animation a in skaterModel.GetComponentsInChildren<Animation>() )
	a.cullingType = AnimationCullingType.AlwaysAnimate;

The problem now is:
When I only have block //1 active the character does NOT get animated if it disappears from the screen.
When I have block //1 and //2 active, the character is not animated at all, no matter which animation I play.

Can anyone explain to me, which part of updateWhenOffscreen and AlwaysAnimate I did not understand?
Does anyone another solution to this kind of problem?

Thanks and best regards
– Benjamin Schulz

[montdidier_1]

Yes I’m seeing something similar to you. I think it’s a bug in unity to be honest.

[montdidier_1]

yes I’m definitely seeing something similar to you. I have a suspicion chaining cullingType at runtime resets some other states. I’ve noticed on the animating character if I change it back to BasedOnRenders briefly at runtime and then back to AlwaysAnimation it seems to work as expected. Not sure how to solve this problem definitely yet however.

[jitwtttl]

For someone who suffers similar problem. If you have not so many characters and do not need to cull animation, just check “Always Animate” box in Inspector.

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