Enabling Navmesh Walking mode seems to do nothing

I recently added AI navigation to my game, and found the movement cost was pretty high

Came across posts elsewhere regarding this issue and found a post by MieszkoZ in this thread: How can I make AI have less impact on performance? - AI - Unreal Engine Forums

Regarding Navmesh Walking mode used in Paragon, and how it’s cheaper than the standard walking mode.

I tried enabling this mode in the CharacterMovementComponent, but nothing I do seems to actually enable it, characters still walk on the actual level geometry as usual, and in AI Debug mode they say they are using “Walking” mode.

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There doesn’t seem to be any docs regarding Navmesh Walking, and search results seem to return a lot of results where other people are asking about how it works too.

This sounds like something I really need, what’s the process to get this working?

Thanks!

Did you ever figure this out? I’m in the same situation.

Unfortunately not, no one I talked to could make it work either, across multiple machines and projects. It’s as if they removed the feature from the engine.

Yes, that is unfortunate. Thanks for the reply.

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Hello from the future! Do a SetMovementMode() on your character movement component in the beginplay of your character and set it to Navmesh Walking. All it takes.

Worked perfectly! Thank you very much.