Enabling the Required Plugins

1 — Open the Plugins window

Click Edit in the top menu bar, then choose Plugins from the bottom of the dropdown (it sits under Editor Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts, and Project Settings). This opens a separate Plugins window listing all 852 built-in plugins.

2 — Search and enable the Chaos Cloth plugins

Click into the search box at the top of the Plugins window and type chaos cloth. The list filters down to just the cloth-related plugins. Check the box next to each of these:

Chaos Cloth

Chaos Cloth Asset

Chaos Cloth Asset Dataflow Nodes

Chaos Cloth Asset Editor (Deprecated)

Chaos Cloth Asset Editor Core

Chaos Cloth Asset USD Dataflow Nodes

chaos Insights

Chaos Niagara

Chaos Outfit Asset (Beta)

Chaos Solver

Chaos Visual Debugger

Chaos Caching

Chaos Editor

Chaos UserDataPT

Search and enable the MetaHuman plugins

Clear the search box and type metahuman. From this filtered list, check:

MetaHuman Animator

MetaHuman Core Tech

MetaHuman Creator (Beta)

MetaHuman SDK

Open Project Settings

Search for "mode bodies"

Enable "Show Compatibility Mode Bodies"

Close the Project Settings window. You're now back in the main editor viewport.

This product includes meshes that support Nanite virtualized geometry. If you are new to Nanite or need help enabling it in your project, please refer to Epic Games' official documentation: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/nanite-virtualized-geometry-in-unreal-engine