ACharacter::InitializeAsyncOutput

function Engine Since unknown

#include "GameFramework/Character.h"

Access: public Specifiers: const

Description

Sets default values on an FCharacterAsyncOutput struct before the async movement simulation runs. Called once per async tick to establish a clean baseline for the simulation to fill.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Must be called before the async simulation step writes to Output. Skipping it leaves fields in an indeterminate state and can produce spurious movement corrections on the game thread.
• Like FillAsyncInput, this is engine-internal. Override it only when subclassing the async movement extension points — do not call it from general gameplay code.

Signature

ENGINE_API void InitializeAsyncOutput(FCharacterAsyncOutput& Output) const;

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
Output	FCharacterAsyncOutput&	The output struct to initialize with clean default values before the async simulation writes into it.	—

Return Type

void

Example

Initialize a custom output field in a subclassed character C++

void AMyCharacter::InitializeAsyncOutput(FCharacterAsyncOutput& Output) const
{
	Super::InitializeAsyncOutput(Output);
	if (FMyCharacterAsyncOutput* MyOutput = static_cast<FMyCharacterAsyncOutput*>(&Output))
	{
		MyOutput->CustomVelocityOverride = FVector::ZeroVector;
	}
}

Version History

Introduced in: unknown

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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