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It is very common to have a timeline controlled cutscene paused for some character dialogues. During the pause, characters should keep playing it idle loop animation instead of completely frozen. I didn't update my timeline for quite sometime but I think my project is also being affected by this.

You are absolutely right that this "bug" has been pretty useful. Thanks very much for opening a pull request, we have merged it to the 4.0 branch. We added some minor cosmetic modification: moved the property up, changed Dont to Don't and added a tooltip text. We also could not come up with a better name for the property, but while it's not elegantly named, it describes precisely what it does.

A new 4.0 timeline UPM package is available for download here:
Spine Unity Download
Thanks for reporting!

Pleasure was mine, you already did the major part of the work! :nerd:

Hi @Harald , I'm using this feature. But I have one problem when the I resume the director the animation a little interrupted. I'm understand that it's trying to play at frame where it was resume, even though, I hope there could be a solution to avoid the interrupted when resume. Are there anything I can do?

nam_nguyen But I have one problem when the I resume the director the animation a little interrupted.

What do you mean by that, could you please describe it in more detail? Or could you show a video that shows this issue?

Sorry I can't send the video here, but you can reproduce by using dontPauseWithDirector with the loop option. Enter play mode in unity edtior, play that animation with play button in timeline window, click pause button while it come inside that animation. In this time, the animation still loop, and then click next frame button (multiple time but not fast) while that animation is playing. You can see the interruption.
What I have in mind that, when the animation is playing at frame 50 of animation, and you click next frame button, it will play that animation at frame we paused previously (Ex frame 10)

@nam_nguyen You can always send us confidential material to contact@esotericsoftware.com if you are not allowed to share it publicly.

The issue you described seems to be a problem in the Unity Editor play mode when playing and pausing with the Timeline window controls only (which has FrameData.seekOccurred set to true although only play was triggered and no seek happened). This issue does not seem to happen when playing and pausing via normal script code like the following:

PlayableDirector director = this.GetComponent<PlayableDirector>();
director.Pause();
director.Play();

Please always be sure to test Timeline behaviour with actual scripts or even better an actual player build, as within the Unity Editor things might be previewed incorrectly.

Harald I shared the reproduce step by Timeline window because it's the most clarify way to see that problem. Of course, the first time I encounter that behaviour is when I pause the timeline via code.
Here's my logic:
director.Pause()
yield return new WaitForSecond(second)
director.Resume() //it happen in here

@nam_nguyen This issue did not occur on our end with the respective code. Which exact version of the spine-unity runtime and which version of the Spine Timeline UPM package are you using?