Adding a skeleton to a blank mesh

Development Character & Animation
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I made a simple alien character called Fava Bean Man and imported the mesh, but my modeling skeleton was not imported with it. How can I add a skeleton so that it can be animated?

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Help please

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when you import it it needs to have been skinned in a 3d program already. That attaches the skeleton. If that’s already done, when you import you should have the option of importing it as a skeletal mesh instead of a static mesh

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Should I import from files or simply drag the file in?

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Export .fbx file from your 3D programm and import this file from the menu in UE4.

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I used a obj file though…

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I got my skeletal mesh, but it only has 1 bone. How can I fix this? I can’t animate that.