Trying to target anim from an imported FBX on to static meshes I have lookDev'd from scratch in UE4

Development Character & Animation
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Hi, I’m new to Unreal and maybe I’m not tackling this the right away but here goes.

  1. imported an FBX of a car to Unreal (no animation)
  2. It comes in as separate static meshes as I expected
  3. Assigned newly created Materials in unreal to car static meshes and it’s working fine.

*Now here’s the part I’m stumped on…

  1. I animate that same car hierarchy in Maya, bake out the animation and export FBX.
  2. Import animated car fbx into Unreal
  3. It brings in 4 new nodes to the Content Browser:Car Skeletal Mesh, Car Anim Sequence, Car Physics Asset, and a skeleton
  4. Verified that car is animated after dropping anim sequence on to the car skeletal mesh. playback is animated.

Here’s the big question…

How do I target my animation on to my lookdev’d car from step #3?

I’m probably over complicating this, maybe there’s a better way.

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I found a work around. My initial lookdev’d car did not have a skeleton mash. I re-imported it, re-assigned materials and now when I drag fbx animations on it the new
animation gets inherited.

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Was going to say. Not sure what it is you are doing but cars and anything that uses animations is usually a skeletal mesh.