Simply making an NPC walk to one destination after spawning

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I want to have NPCs spawning into my level out of sight, the location they walk in from is going to be randomly picked from a set of possible spawn points. They’re all going to walk to the same destination where they will wait for the player to interact with them.

I thought this simple setup would be enough, but it’s not working. I’ve found NPC walking tutorials but they’re all for either randomly walking around the level, walking along a spline, or walking randomly between set waypoints, nothing that I’ve found applicable for this purpose. I’ve got a NavMesh already set up in the area.

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There’s should be an option in your NPC’s Blueprint called Auto Posses AI, set it to Placed in World or Spawned
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Thank you, I had it set up as an Actor, I changed it to a Pawn and set the Auto Possess AI to Placed In World Or Spawned. It’s still standing still and not moving to the destination when the game starts though.

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Don’t know if this will work, but try connecting a self node to the pawn input.

If that doesn’t work, you could try using this node instead : Move To Location or Actor

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