How to make Tick only on server

Development Programming & Scripting C++
1

I have a few classes where I don’t need the tick to happen on the clients just on the server.
Is there anyway where I can disable the tick of actor that are replicated on the clients?

Obviously I can use


Role == ROLE_Authority

in the tick function but I am not asking about that.

2 

PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick = (Role == ROLE_Authority);

should do the trick I believe.

3

That wont work. I have tested something similar to this though. Basically when the constructor is called, there is no concept of client or server present at that time.

4

Will it work to set ticking to false in the constructor and then conditionally enable it in BeginPlay or another initialization routine?

5

It should work when set up in the BeginPlay() method. It doesn’t in constructor because the engine constructs only a CDO (Class Default Object). Then, when creating actors of this class it uses it as a template.

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