UCharacterMovementComponent::TickComponent

function Engine Since 4.0

#include "GameFramework/CharacterMovementComponent.h"

Access: public Specifiers: virtualoverride

Description

Drives the movement simulation each frame — computes acceleration and rotation for locally controlled characters, or replicates the move to the server for network clients, as described in the class's networking overview comment.

Caveats & Gotchas

• This is the entry point for the whole client-prediction/server-correction pipeline: it calls PerformMovement() for locally controlled characters and ReplicateMoveToServer() for network clients.
• Overriding this without calling Super::TickComponent() breaks movement, replication, and root motion entirely — there's rarely a good reason to override it instead of hooking a narrower virtual like PhysCustom or PostPhysicsTickComponent.
• On simulated proxies, this drives SimulateMovement() instead of PerformMovement(), which uses a different (extrapolation-based) code path.

Signature

virtual void TickComponent(float DeltaTime, enum ELevelTick TickType, FActorComponentTickFunction *ThisTickFunction) override

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
DeltaTime	float	Time in seconds since the last tick.	—
TickType	enum ELevelTick	The kind of tick being performed (normal, viewports-only, etc.).	—
ThisTickFunction	FActorComponentTickFunction*	The tick function that triggered this call.	—

Return Type

void

Example

TickComponent's role in the movement pipeline (engine-internal) C++

// Called automatically every component tick by the engine's tick manager.
// Do not call directly; instead override narrower hooks like PhysCustom() if you need
// to inject custom logic into the movement pipeline.
virtual void TickComponent(float DeltaTime, enum ELevelTick TickType, FActorComponentTickFunction* ThisTickFunction) override;

Version History

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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