diff --git a/apps/openmw/mwmechanics/aitravel.cpp b/apps/openmw/mwmechanics/aitravel.cpp
index cce9c0314..c63e56c11 100644
--- a/apps/openmw/mwmechanics/aitravel.cpp
+++ b/apps/openmw/mwmechanics/aitravel.cpp
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ bool isWithinMaxRange(const osg::Vec3f& pos1, const osg::Vec3f& pos2)
     // Maximum travel distance for vanilla compatibility.
     // Was likely meant to prevent NPCs walking into non-loaded exterior cells, but for some reason is used in interior cells as well.
     // We can make this configurable at some point, but the default *must* be the below value. Anything else will break shoddily-written content (*cough* MW *cough*) in bizarre ways.
-    bool aiDistance = MWBase::Environment::get().getMechanicsManager()->getActorsProcessingRange();
+    float aiDistance = MWBase::Environment::get().getMechanicsManager()->getActorsProcessingRange();
     return (pos1 - pos2).length2() <= aiDistance*aiDistance;
 }