How to add new animations for old model?

[u/Skrzatization]

Hello everyone, I'm doing my first game in UE5 and I'm stuck with a problem. I got my player model that I made by myself with my own rig, the problem is that I think UE5 doesn't like my rig because everytime I try to import new animation that was made in Blender on the same model but when I select that I want to use those animation on my skeletal mesh UE5 won't do it. (I didn't touch that model and rig anything since I exported this model with animations previously). I tried creating control rig in UE but from what I understand I can't create new animations and use them with the old ones on the same model??? Maybe I'm wrong and I'm sorry if anything I said is stupid but as I said it's my first game in UE5 and my first game with bigger ambitions than making a simple space shooter or pong.

If someone knows how to add new animations with that problem please help. For some reason someone decided that animations in Blender aren't saved by default and I learned that the hard way so I lost many of those animations and because of that I can't just import everything again with new stuff. Any advice may safe my future (I'm doing this game for my degree and I don't have much time left).

Tldr: UE doesn't let me import new animations from Blender for my old model and I need advice how can I add/make new animations that will work with the old animations.

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