UCharacterMovementComponent::BeginPlay

function Engine Since 4.0

#include "GameFramework/CharacterMovementComponent.h"

Access: public Specifiers: virtualoverride

Description

Initializes movement-simulation state (such as cached navigation and prediction data) once the component's owning actor has begun play.

• Overriding this without calling Super::BeginPlay() skips initialization the movement simulation relies on (e.g. network prediction data setup), causing subtle movement or replication bugs rather than an obvious crash.
• Runs after UActorComponent::BeginPlay() and before the first TickComponent() call, so anything that depends on UpdatedComponent/CharacterOwner being fully set up is safe to use here.

virtual void BeginPlay() override

void

Overriding BeginPlay on a movement component subclass C++

void UMyCharacterMovementComponent::BeginPlay()
{
    Super::BeginPlay();
    // Custom per-play initialization here
}

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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