Tick is never being called even though CanEverTick and StartWithTickEnables is true

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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YOU’RE A LEGEND! I forgot the Super::BeginPlay()

22

Wasted an hour not seeing the obvious… Thank you for this!

23

In my case the actor didn’t tick because I didn’t have any components. Adding this to the constructor fixed the problem:
RootComponent = CreateDefaultSubobject<USceneComponent>(TEXT("RootSceneComponent"));

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Thanks for this thread, I had the same issue due to not calling Super::BeginPlay(), and the sneaky thing that took me a while to find after adding it to my subclasses was that I also hadn’t added it to their common base class.

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In my case the reason was that i spawned AActor via NewObject:

NewObject<AMyUnit>(World);

while it have to be done via SpawnActor:

World->SpawnActor<AMyUnit>();
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I know that this is older post, but for me the following work. My class is child of the UActor

AUMyClass::AUMyClass() {
    PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick = true;
}

void AUMyClass::BeginPlay() {
    Super::BeginPlay();
}

void AUMyClass::Tick(float DeltaTime) {
    Super::Tick(DeltaTime);
}

Setting the

    PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick = true;

In the BeginPlay instead of the constructor was problem.