Movement keeps being set to falling from flying

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I’ve got a player-controlled actor that I’m trying to add an up-down movement axis to, and I was informed that AddMovementInput(GetActorUpVector(), Value); doesn’t work if the movement mode is set to walking, so I added GetCharacterMovement()->SetMovementMode(MOVE_Flying); to the object’s constructor.

When that didn’t work, I added a log statement to the method bound to my up axis to print out the movement mode, and found that it was actually “Falling”.

Does anyone know:

  1. How it got set to “Falling”?
  2. Why does adding vertical motion not work when falling?
  3. How do I make it NOT set to falling, or
  4. How do I make vertical motion work while falling?
  5. Why does the list formatting put the number on a different line that is super weird?

It’s a space game, so I suppose “falling” is technically the accurate movement mode, but trying to have the entire level fall at the same rate is probably bound to screw things up.

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