Blender Animation Skeletal Mesh to Unreal Engine 4

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On the left is the skeletal mesh does not maintain proper smoothing groups. The static mesh on the right is perfectly normal. This happens when importing skeletal meshes. Blender 2.72 and I have tried both the 6.1 and 7.4 exporters. Both of those produce the output on the left when a skeletal mesh and both of those produce the mesh on the right when only the static mesh is imported.

No combination of applying modifiers or edge smoothing on export works.

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Bumping this.

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On import, in fbx import options, select Import Normals and Tangents (Normal Import Method drop down menu). This will turn off auto smoothing and keep your model looking exactly as it was created.

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Although I got this figured out some time ago I appreciate you coming to this and providing an answer.