PlayCanvas game run in background?

[Dava]

Is it possible for the PlayCanvas project, to run in the background, specifically when the user switch to a different tab, at least for PC only

[RPaladin]

According to @Leonidas a while back on Discord:

Web workers can partially (fully?) create what you are trying to accomplish:

Using Web Workers - Web APIs | MDN

[Leonidas]

Hi @Dava,

This has been discussed before here:

[SOLVED] Continue Animation on tabs change also

Hi @Harsh_Zota, I think what has been said in this thread holds true for what you are asking here: To sum up, you can’t do that without messing with the PlayCanvas engine. PlayCanvas will update the component, rendering, animation etc systems on each browser animation frame update. Which will pause as soon as the tab becomes inactive. You could potentially override the following pc.Application class to update on a setInterval instead of requestAnimationFrame, as we discussed on the other th…