importing your own dress mesh (help needed)

Well, not really

- Clone a dress that is of the same length as yours (can be a bit longer but not shorter, does not have to be just as puffy if yours is), export lod0. You are making a dress that must behave like as a dress, not a swimsuit, naturally you want something similar to yours in the area where rigging and morphing differs. What the reference dress looks like above the groin does not matter, although choosing something with less sculpted details will give you better results;
- So open lod0, File - Save as under a different name (like progress). Join all meshgroups into one, rename to reference;
- Import the obj, transform it in edit mode, never in object mode. Make it fit the body with proportional editing enabled if needed;
- Unfold rig, make top and bottom visible and selectable. Select top, in 3d view press Shift D to duplicate, then Esc to confirm. Do the same for bottom. Select top.001, shift-select bottom.001, join with Ctrl J. Rename to body;

- Select the body, delete all areas of it covered by clothing;
- Select the dress, create a second uv map, reposition uvs with the body’s uvs in the background , rebake the uvs as shown in the video linked above. Delete the original uv map and rename the new one to uv_0. Create a new uv map and name it uv_1;
- Close holes, add thickness in places where it would be visible if needed;
- Transfer weights, uv_1 and vertex paint from the reference;



- in this order: select the body, then the garment, join with Ctrl J;
- if your garment does not reach the ankles: assign type GEOM and cut 0000, delete the reference, save. Clone DressPanels, import the blend there.
- if your garment reaches the ankles: you will have to split the mesh into meshgroups just like the reference was split, assign corresponding cut numbers, import in the package of the reference.