Navigation breaks in VR (Vive) with agent radius <31

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This may be your issue. The navmesh is built to support a “standard size” agent. From memory, that radius is something like 32. To support a smaller agent radius, you add a new supported agent in the game settings under “Navigation System”. Set the nav agent radius of the new type to suit. Note that if I remember correctly multiple nav meshes can be created to support different agent radii so it can be a memory issue. But if you’re just wanting a smaller radius, that may well be it. When I had a similar problem, I found out that this was the issue by tracing through the nav mesh query (C++ side), where it has a check to find a suitably sized nav mesh for the querying agent.

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Hi,

Using the Vive and the standard Virtual Reality Template, I’m trying to set up the NavMesh to allow for navigation in narrow spaces, by decreasing the Agent Radius of the RecastNavMesh-Default or the general Engine settings.

As soon as I set the Agent Radius smaller than 31, navigation (using Teleport methods) stops working, or works incorrectly: The Blueprint cannot fine a valid Teleport location any longer (or only in very few places).

  • The visible NavMesh (show navigation) looks line: indeed it is closer to the walls as expected
  • The navigation methods without Teleport (with the Mordentral plugin, e.g. DPadPress) work fine
  • Navigation remains possible in some areas but not in others (only in the center, very far away from any wall)
  • In other levels navigation becomes impossible entirely.

Does anybody have an idea how to handle this? For the moment I’m stuck with incomplete navigation.

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer!
Warner

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That worked perfectly. The RecastNavMesh is now refering (and named after) the added agent and navigation builds (and works with) the new specs.

Thanks!

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Of course… Somehow with Firefox that doesn’t work for me (but now I did it with Chrome).

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You’re welcome. It’d be useful if you accepted the answer and voted it so other people who find it with a search will know at a glance that was it.

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Thank you.