{SOLVED} Avatar wearing a top of its texture.

Hi. The link does not work.
Did you import a texture in s4s? If yes, we would need to see the package and blend files.

The garment's texture does not appear because it was not imported manually in s4s. It is not imported automatically with the blend file, so you need to do this yourself

That said, the tutorial you followed was very unfortunate. However, the item you made is perfect for a beginner. I can walk you through how to adapt it properly, but before i do that, can your computer run blender 3.6 version?

Problems with your blend:
- the garment exported as unweld;
- chosen reference was too short, the bottom of the garment did not receive correct data and may clip into the lower body it covers;
- the body and the garment are decimated. This ruins the topology, do not do this for LOD0;
- uvs in uv_0 are stretched. UVs made in square uv space stretch when rectangular textures are applied, you must bring them back to the original size;
- areas of the body covered by clothing are not deleted;
- mesh is not vertex painted.

S4S supports blender 3.6, make sure you have the beta version that is set up correctly:
- delete s4s wishes and any version of blender 2.7x;
- install s4s beta and blender 3.6 as explained here, make sure to change blender path in s4s settings;

Edit your garment in Marvelous designer:
- go back to Marvelous designer, open the file with your top, select all patterns, change topology to Quads, increase particle distance to 20 or so. Your item has no fine details that need to be preserved ( folds, wrinkles ), there is no need for its topology to be dense. So long the border of the top look smooth, it's okay;
- export the garment as thin and weld, with Y axis as Up

Adapt your garment exactly like this, no extra steps:
- in s4s click on Create CAS standalone, paste yfTop_Tank in the search bar, click Next, name it, save it somewhere;
- press Shift Ctrl C, paste studio.exportall . S4S will create a folder with all resources from the package in the same location where the file is;
- open LOD0, rename s4studio_mesh_1 to Reference;
- import your garment;
- transfer weights, uv_1, vertex paint as shown below, then Limit total. Rename a uv map to uv_0;

- select Reference, in Edit mode select everything with A, Mesh - Merge - By distance;

- enable X ray, press C, select all areas of the body covered by clothing, press Esc to exit this selection mode. Disable X ray and Shift-click on any face that is not covered by the garment. You can fine tune the result in UV editor as well, so long Sync is enabled;

- in 3d view press Delete - Faces;
- select the garment. In UV editor select everything, assign this template as a background, press S Y 0.5 to bring uvs back to their original size;
- Ctrl-select the body, put uvs of the garment in the space meant for tops, prioritizing their intentional placement ( front pattern where the front of the torso is, back where the back is, etc ). Do not scale uvs individually, do not rotate them freely;
- once done, select all uvs of the garment, UV - Export uv layout, set Opacity to 1. This will be your temporary diffuse;

- once done, join the garment with the reference;
- assign cut 0000, save, import back into yfTop_Tank;
- import your UV layout into Diffuse, remove other textures with Make blank;

- test in-game how the garment moves and morphs


Once everything is fine, save LOD0 as temporary.blend ( you will not be importing it in s4s ) and bake maps:
- expand the rig, disable rendering next to Top;
- in object mode Add - Mesh - Plane, press S and make it bigger. The ground will create more shadows on the garment;
- select the garment, change Timeline to Shader editor;
- in Edit mode select everything, remove existing material with X button, create a a new one;
- Add - Texture - Image texture, in drop down choose Diffuse, select this node;
- in Render tab change render engine to Cycles, Samples to at least 500, Light paths to 1;
- Expand Bake, choose Ambient occlusion, set Margins to at least 7, Bake;
- Image - Save as, choose PNG;

- open Photopea or photoshop, open UV layout of the garment you exported previously;
- Ctrl-click on the layer thumbnail, Select - Modify - Expand, choose 3 px;
- Edit - Fill, foreground color ( does not matter which one);
- File - Open and place, choose saved Ambient occlusion;
- RMB-click on it and choose Clipping mask;
- File - Export as - PNG. This is your diffuse;
- this is where the top casts shadows on the body. Select this area in UV editor, export Uv layout. Edit ambient occlusion you baked as explained in the last section here;

- make specular( sample the color from the original specular of the garment) and normal maps using your diffuse;
- make lods