Unity Shader Graph Animations Stop on Editor and Game Windows (when not in focus or playing)

Question

I'm learning shader graphs but my animations stop if I'm not in play mode. Doing anything in the editor/game window causes the animation to play again. Even moving the mouse over the window is enough. But when I stop the animation stops.

• I'm using Unity 2021.3.19f1 on Linux (PopOs, Ubuntu based).
• I'm using a Time node for the animation
• The problem isn't specific to the portal animation.

(But I guess these are unrelated to the problem)

P.S.: This doesn't happen in play mode.

Answer 1

If you didn't enable Always Refresh, try to enable it: