Maya to Unreal - too many material slots!

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Please any Maya to Unreal wizards. Need your input. Client deadline Monday.
Following this Maya to -Houdini- Unreal walkthru.

From Maya exporting my UDIM reduced mesh as .obj using default settings.

On import to Unreal no matter what settings I try, getting 100’s of Material slot assignments when I should only have one!

Although not mentioned in the walkthru I also assigned a single lambert material to my mesh in Maya BEFORE exporting.

Pulling my hair out on this.

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Try to bake your materials to a single texture atlas in Maya, using Transfer Maps.

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Thanks but nothing to do with actual texture. Rather something to do with material assignment in Maya before export.
Or possibly some bug with .objs and UDIM support.

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Assigning 1 mat to the object prior to export should fix this. Can you show the import settings you’re using?

Also does importing it in a new Maya scene yield the same issue?