I\'ve created a play project with play 2.3.7
In the project directory, I ran activator and ran the eclipse command to generate eclipse project files.
eclipse
I had the same issue running Play 2.4.0-RC1 using default SBT layout (disablePlugins(PlayLayoutPlugin)) and solved it by adding to build.sbt:
disablePlugins(PlayLayoutPlugin)
build.sbt
sourceDirectories in (Compile, TwirlKeys.compileTemplates) := (unmanagedSourceDirectories in Compile).value