APawn::MoveIgnoreActorAdd

function Engine Since 4.0

#include "GameFramework/Pawn.h"

Access: public

Description

Adds an actor to the pawn's movement collision ignore list so the pawn can pass through it during movement sweeps. Commonly used when boarding a vehicle, carrying an object, or temporarily clipping through a spawner.

Caveats & Gotchas

• This only affects movement sweeps performed by the pawn's movement component (e.g. the capsule during UCharacterMovementComponent::MoveAlongFloor). It does NOT suppress overlap or hit events — the actors can still trigger OnComponentBeginOverlap against each other.
• The ignore list is stored on the RootComponent's MoveIgnoreActors array. If you swap the RootComponent at runtime the list is lost.
• Duplicate entries are not deduplicated; calling this twice with the same actor adds it twice, and you must call MoveIgnoreActorRemove twice to fully restore collision.

Signature

ENGINE_API void MoveIgnoreActorAdd(AActor* ActorToIgnore);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
ActorToIgnore	AActor*	The actor whose collision should be ignored by this pawn's movement sweeps.	—

Return Type

void

Example

Ignore a vehicle hull while boarding C++

void AMyCharacter::StartBoarding(AVehicle* Vehicle)
{
	// Prevent movement sweeps from blocking against the vehicle hull
	MoveIgnoreActorAdd(Vehicle);
	// Attach and begin boarding animation...
}

void AMyCharacter::FinishBoarding(AVehicle* Vehicle)
{
	MoveIgnoreActorRemove(Vehicle);
}

Version History

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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