[Tutorial] How to Enable Eyelash Hair Cards for Metahumans

If you’ve ever tried to make eyelash hair cards work on Metahumans, you may have discovered that they don’t normally show up until LOD 2. But I thank God for showing me a very simple fix to enabling hair cards for eyelashes on Metahumans, so you can use eyelash hair cards even in LOD 0! :grinning:

  1. Select your “Eyelashes” Groom Component in your Character BP, and in the Details panel, under “Groom”, select “Use Cards”.

  2. Next, select the “Face” Skeletal Mesh Component in your Character BP, and in the Details panel, under “Materials”, find the material labelled “M_Eyelash_LowerLODs_Inst” (it should be Element 6), and double-click it to open it.

  1. Finally, inside the “M_Eyelash_LowerLODs_Inst” material instance, check the “Opacity” option and set its value to 1. Save the material instance, and you will now have working Eyelash Cards for Metahumans!

  1. As a bonus, if you are not able to see the eyelash hair cards in LODs 2 to 3 (by default they turn off in LOD 4 and higher), then repeat steps 2 and 3 above-- but this time for a different material, “M_EyeLash_HigherLODs_Inst” (it should be Element 10). :slight_smile:
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