After exporting from blender, adding new actions isn't noticed by Unreal

Development Character & Animation
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Hey Guys!
I’ve just started out with Unreal, and I’m having an interesting problem.
First off, I’m using Blender 2.74.

Basically my setup is a mesh and an armature. The armature has several actions: Walk, Idle, etc.
When I export to FBX and import into Unreal, everything works… if I set Animation length to “Animated Time”. When I do this, all of the actions are imported.
NOTE: My way of doing things is exporting mesh, armature, and animations from a single FBX file - this seems to be against the general advice given by tutorial writers, but in the newest blender version it seems to work

Problem is… if I add a new action after this happens, and re-export it… the action is not loaded!!

So my question is: Am I doing something wrong? If you need export options I picked and such, I can post those.
Thanks for reading!! :smiley:

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When you create an action there is something like “users” of the action.

While import, you can define a specific timeline keyrangeset. (Frame xxx-xxxx)

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I’m afraid I don’t understand!
-I have 2 actions. Walk and Idle. They are fake-usered.
-I export to unreal. The two actions are loaded.
-Then I add a new action to blender.
-I re-export, and… the action is not loaded.

What does frames have to do with it? Sorry, a noob in the whole blender-action system. :wink: