mecanim animation while timescale is zero

though not a solution by mecanim, I think we can do sprite animation while we are in pause menu. The way I thought was: having an array of sprites and an script attached to it the button gameobject. When we are in pause menu, we can turn renderer on(vice versa). and in script we update sprite index according to elapsed time. Lets say for a 4fps animation having 4 sprites. Each one must remain 1/4=0.25seconds. So we constantly check the interval.(Here we trace time by Time.realtimeSinceStartup). When interval passed, we update renderer's sprite property by changing index. I havn't test it yet but my sixth sense tells me it is gonna work. What do you think guys?

Just as I said. It worked perfectly on the other way!!

I can't upvote but this is an issue for me too. Nothing posted on the web works, nothing from the Unity docs works.

maul, here is the class I developed for this purpose.

copy the codes to a C# script, name the script as the class name. Lets say you need a blinking button. So you have made four sprites of same hight-width(important for visually aesthetic quality). Now you put the array size of "sprites" to 4. You assign your sprite sequentially. You can adjust fps-turnOn-turnOff-pause$$anonymous$$enukey etc if necessary. Boom!

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class pauseAnim : $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour {
     
     public Sprite[] sprites;
     public float fps=4;
     public $$anonymous$$eyCode turnOn$$anonymous$$ey=$$anonymous$$eyCode.A;
     public $$anonymous$$eyCode turnOff$$anonymous$$ey=$$anonymous$$eyCode.D;
     public $$anonymous$$eyCode pause$$anonymous$$enuButton=$$anonymous$$eyCode.Escape;
     private float interval;
     private float activeTime;
     private int index;
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
         
 
 
         gameObject.renderer.enabled=false;
         
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         if(Input.Get$$anonymous$$eyDown(pause$$anonymous$$enuButton)){Time.timeScale=0;}
         interval=1/fps;
         if(Input.Get$$anonymous$$eyDown(turnOff$$anonymous$$ey)) 
         {
             gameObject.renderer.enabled=false;
         }
         if(Input.Get$$anonymous$$eyDown(turnOn$$anonymous$$ey)) //we are in pause menu
         {
             activeTime=Time.realtimeSinceStartup;
             if(Time.timeScale==0)
             {gameObject.renderer.enabled=true;}
             gameObject.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sprite=sprites[0];
             index=0;
         }
         if(gameObject.renderer.enabled==true)
         {
             if(Time.realtimeSinceStartup>=(activeTime+interval))
             {
                 activeTime=Time.realtimeSinceStartup;
                 gameObject.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sprite=sprites[index+1];
                 index=index+1;
                 if(index==(sprites.Length-1))
                 {
                     index=0;
                 }
             }
         }
         
         
     }
 }
 

Thanks but I meant the mecanim system.