# Meerkat demo, groom not rendering on stencil layer

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/meerkat-demo-groom-not-rendering-on-stencil-layer/491887>\
**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** stencil, unreal-engine, UE4-27, question\
**Created:** [January 27, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/meerkat-demo-groom-not-rendering-on-stencil-layer/491887 "2022-01-27T08:09:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Felyne](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Felyne](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Felyne)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/meerkat-demo-groom-not-rendering-on-stencil-layer/491887/1 "2022-01-27T08:09:11Z")

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Hi, I’m using the beautiful Meerkat demo project to test the renders. In my project settings, the alpha is enabled. In the plugins, the groom is enabled. In the Movie Render Queue, I use the Weta preset _MoviePipelineConfig\_Temporal_, the provided map and master sequencer. The final EXR render looks good. But when I am trying to render a separate layer of the meerkat (stencil) with an alpha, the groom doesn’t render, he looks like a rat.  
Any help is appreciated, thank you!

 ![Meerkat_rat](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/1/6/5/165b93bc2c15b647eb0429f32195cda4e07b15f4.jpeg)