APawn::IsPawnControlled

function Engine Blueprint Since 4.24

#include "GameFramework/Pawn.h"

Access: public Specifiers: virtualBlueprintCallable

Description

Returns true if this pawn currently has a valid Controller of any kind (AI or player). On remote clients this returns false because controllers are not replicated.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Always returns false on remote clients in a multiplayer game because AController is not replicated to non-owning clients — use HasAuthority() to guard logic that depends on this check.
• This replaced the deprecated IsControlled() in UE 4.24 and checks any controller type; if you only want to check for a human player, use IsPlayerControlled() instead.

Signature

ENGINE_API virtual bool IsPawnControlled() const;

Return Type

bool

Examples

Guard server-only logic by confirming this pawn has an active controller Blueprint

Guard server-only logic that requires a controller C++

void AMyPawn::DoSomething()
{
    if (!IsPawnControlled())
    {
        return; // No controller — nothing to do
    }
    // Safe to access GetController() here
    AController* C = GetController();
}

Version History

Introduced in: 4.24

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—
4.24	stable	Introduced as a replacement for the deprecated IsControlled().

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