Unreal is importing everything as separate objects

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So here is my problem. I have animated model with constraints but without bones in Maya. Before exporting it to Unreal I baked everything. When I’m exporting, I’m exporting only meshes (not any shapes, constraints, locators). The objects hierarchy is good I think because everything is linked to one dummy object. But when I import my animated model to Unreal, it is separating everything (about 20-30 objects), which is making very difficult to put everything in sequencer and then putting animation files and etc. Please someone help me. I’m using unreal engine 5-00

maya before exporting objects hierarchy

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Unreal engine after importing

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You are using fbx. You can use obj. Or just tick Import as one object in the import window. Or just add them together in blender

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On import you should collapse all sub settings and one of these is combine meshes on import

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Unfortunately, I can not use .obj because it does not hold animation. My asset is animated.

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I went through import settings and found out that combine meshes checkbox is only available for static meshes.

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I suppose the single mesh import only happens, when the meshes are not part of the bone hierarchy. I use Blender as 3d creation tool, so I’m not sure how it works with Mays etc but when I have everything in the bone hierarchy and I use “Import meshes in bone hierarchy” it works.

Furthermore it is possible to import the SkeletalMesh itself without animations first and import the animations later on with a separate import file.

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Oh and by the way there is also a live link plugin for maya.

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Yeah, it’s supposed to work like that but IDK what’s going on. Maybe something is wrong with rig and I can even try to rig my model again. Hopefully this is going to help to fix the issue.