Daily Unreal Column #21 - Prevent component creation in parent class

Following up on yesterday's Daily Unreal Column, today I want to present a way to use object initializer to prevent the parent class from creating a component.

Imagine you are making a game where you want to use ACharacter as your base class. However, you do not want to use one of it’s components that is created by default, for example, a CMC (Character Movement Component). You can prevent this component from being created by using object initializer in your subclass constructor function like this:

AMyCharacter::AMyCharacter(const FObjectInitializer& ObjectInitializer) 
  :  Super(ObjectInitializer.DoNotCreateDefaultSubobject(
    ACharacter::CharacterMovementComponentName)
{}