Groom Import Options unavailable

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Hello,

I’m having trouble importing an alembic hair groom into UE. When importing the .abc I get the Alembic Cache Import Options instead of the Groom Import Options. Any ideas why that would be or if there is a dedicated groom import available?

These are hair particles I exported out of blender 2.83 and I have enabled the groom plugins inside of UE. I’m on Windows 10.

I saw this post, that seems to be relevant:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1712341-no-info-on-importing-groom-hair-a-mystery

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Is using Maya an option for you? The xgen to ue4 workflow is the most documented / supported one.

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Might wanna check this documentation,

you might need to activate the hair tools in your project first before being able to import it.