# Reimporting a mesh overrides Quality Level Min LOD to 2 for Low and Medium quality every time

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/reimporting-a-mesh-overrides-quality-level-min-lod-to-2-for-low-and-medium-quality-every-time/2850924>\
**Category:** Issues and Bug Reporting\
**Tags:** fortnite-creative, unreal-editor-for-fortnite, Status-ToDo, fortnite\
**Created:** [November 5, 2026, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/reimporting-a-mesh-overrides-quality-level-min-lod-to-2-for-low-and-medium-quality-every-time/2850924 "2026-11-05T12:12:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![giovauefn](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/giovauefn/32/1211471_2.png) [@giovauefn](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/giovauefn)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/reimporting-a-mesh-overrides-quality-level-min-lod-to-2-for-low-and-medium-quality-every-time/2850924/1 "2026-11-05T12:12:57Z")

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### Summary

Since 42.00 (that added validation checks on meshes LODs, making sure that Low and Medium quality have a min level of LOD) reimporting a mesh will override the setting and set Low and Medium to LOD 2 every time. This is really annoying especially when reimporting more meshes.

### Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

### What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

UI/Tools

### Steps to Reproduce

Import some meshes, change Quality Level Min LOD to 0 for both Low and Medium, reimport the mesh

### Expected Result

The setting stays the same after reimporting

### Observed Result

The setting is overridden and Low and medium settings go back to 2

### Platform(s)

windows

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![Screenshot 2026-11-05 130515.png](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/0/5/5/05583f58faeb378a91443d4afaccd5e2b14cc174.png)

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**Author:** ![Bug-Reporter](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/bug-reporter/32/997076_2.png) [@Bug-Reporter](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Bug-Reporter)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/reimporting-a-mesh-overrides-quality-level-min-lod-to-2-for-low-and-medium-quality-every-time/2850924/4 "2026-11-05T16:00:56Z")

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FORT-1188834 has been added to our ‘To Do’ list. Someone’s been assigned this task.