skeletal mesh: importing without a skinned mesh doesn't work, possible to get it to work?

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I spent around 20 minutes trying to import a skeletal mesh to find out what the bones would do since im using brekel software for some animations, but unless i skinned it it wouldn’t import, since the skeletal mesh browser offers bone view this should work, is there any chance a future beta could get updated with this feature?

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Apologies for the delay in response, Marc. We are waiting on an answer regarding future plans for this.

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We support importing animations without a skinned geometry but you must have imported a skeletal mesh first. Importing an animation without an existing skeletal mesh first is something we’ll look into for the future.

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AFAIK, we need skinned data(FbxSkin) to get the root of the skeleton from FBX, but I’ll add a bug to investigate this further.

Thanks,

–Lina,

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Our skeletal meshes must contain geometry to import and use in the engine. That is how we define a skeletal mesh. Without geometry it wouldn’t be a mesh so we have no support for this right now. What exactly are you hoping to achieve?