ACharacter::SetReplicateMovement

function Engine Since 4.0

#include "GameFramework/Character.h"

Access: public Specifiers: virtual

Description

Enables or disables movement replication for this character. Overrides AActor::SetReplicateMovement to also update the CharacterMovementComponent's replication state.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Disabling movement replication stops position/rotation updates from being sent to simulated proxies, but the character remains in the world — proxies will freeze at their last received transform until replication is re-enabled.
• This override also updates bReplicateMovement on the CharacterMovementComponent itself; calling the AActor base version directly bypasses this and can leave the movement component out of sync.
• Must be called on the server or on a locally controlled pawn; calling it on a simulated proxy has no network effect.

Signature

ENGINE_API virtual void SetReplicateMovement(bool bInReplicateMovement) override

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
bInReplicateMovement	bool	True to replicate movement to clients, false to stop replication.	—

Return Type

void

Example

Disable movement replication for a ragdoll C++

// Called server-side when switching to physics ragdoll
void AMyCharacter::EnableRagdoll()
{
    GetMesh()->SetSimulatePhysics(true);
    // Stop sending transform updates — ragdoll is physics-driven on all clients
    SetReplicateMovement(false);
}

Version History

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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