Why is my static mesh not moving?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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I’ve been trying to get my mesh to move on my command like in the UFO input example, but so far I’ve been unsuccesful. Here are the steps I took so far:

  • I created a blank project with starters content.
  • I created a new Pawn Blueprint.
  • I’ve added a mesh and a camera as child of that mesh. The mesh’s mobility is set to Movable.
  • I created a Delta Seconds variable and a Movement speed variable.
  • I’ve set the movement speed default to 700.
  • I’ve created input axes MoveForward, MoveUp and MoveRight with corresponding keyboard buttons and scales.
  • I’ve copy pasted a part of the BP_UFO_Physics example that can be found in the Content Examples.
    Specifically I’ve copy-pasted the part that updates the actor’s velocity based on Input.
  • I’ve also added the Event Tick and connected it to set the delta seconds and then connected it to the Set Physics Linear Velocity node, which has as target my mesh.
  • I placed an instance of my Blueprint in the game world and I also set the Auto Possess property to player0

When I press play I can see that the Blueprint is doing its job. The Input Axes have positive values, yet my mesh is not moving. What is going wrong?

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Okay I finally found it.
The Physics property Start Awake of the mesh should have been set to true…

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I’m moving a UStatic Mesh via c++ so I needed to set the static mesh to “movable”, since the mesh is statically in the scene I did that in the Unreal Editor by clicking on the static mesh->Transform tab->Mobility set to Movable.