diff --git a/Source/Engine/Tools/ModelTool/ModelTool.h b/Source/Engine/Tools/ModelTool/ModelTool.h
index ac8cb231f..3c066cabb 100644
--- a/Source/Engine/Tools/ModelTool/ModelTool.h
+++ b/Source/Engine/Tools/ModelTool/ModelTool.h
@@ -335,10 +335,10 @@ public:
         float TriangleReduction = 0.5f;
         // Whether to do a sloppy mesh optimization. This is faster but does not follow the topology of the original mesh.
         API_FIELD(Attributes="EditorOrder(1140), EditorDisplay(\"Level Of Detail\"), VisibleIf(nameof(ShowGeometry))")
-        bool SloppyOptimization = true;
+        bool SloppyOptimization = false;
         // Only used if Sloppy is false. Target error is an approximate measure of the deviation from the original mesh using distance normalized to [0..1] range (e.g. 1e-2f means that simplifier will try to maintain the error to be below 1% of the mesh extents).
         API_FIELD(Attributes="EditorOrder(1150), EditorDisplay(\"Level Of Detail\"), VisibleIf(nameof(SloppyOptimization), true), Limit(0.01f, 1, 0.001f)")
-        float LODTargetError = 0.1f;
+        float LODTargetError = 0.05f;
 
     public: // Materials