I’m new to Unreal Engine and I’m starting to get the hang of some things, but the importing system still feels a little weird to me. For exemple, I have a character FBX, with different animations (run, idle, jump, etc) in different “actions”. I imported the FBX and it imported without any issues all the animations. However, sometimes I realize I need one more animation for an action I didn’t anticipate, so I animate the new action and then I have to import the FBX again. I know that unchecking the “mesh” tick box lets you choose the skeletal mesh you want to apply the animations to, so that works, but every time I want to import a new animation it imports all the animations again, including the ones that I already had in the project, making duplicates. I can’t find any options in the import window to select which actions I want to import. Is there such an option hiding somewhere?
In the animation section, you can select Set Time and set the numbers of the frames you need. You can do the same in the already imported animation and then click Reimport.
But it’s not a matter of setting the frames, the animations are separated in different ‘actions’ in the same FBX. I just want to be able to select which actions I want import so I don’t have to import all of them and delete the duplicates (It’s not a huge problem, but would be nice to have the option to select which actions you want to import).
Are you using Blender? There’s the “All Actions” checkbox when exporting. Must be something similar in other software.
Sorry if I’m not being clear, but it’s not the exporting part that’s the problem. I have an FBX that has a certain number of actions (let’s say, 10 actions). I import it to Unreal without any issues, and each action is imported as a different animation, as intended. Then, I realize I need one more action, so I animate it in the other software creating a new action in the same file, and export again, overwriting the FBX, now with 11 actions. Now I just want to import the new action into Unreal, but when I import the fbx I don’t see any option to import only one action, it always imports all actions again, creating duplicates of the previous 10 actions that I already had imported. As I said, it’s not a huge problem, I just have to delete the duplicates, but it would be nice to be able to choose which actions to import when importing the FBX.