cynsegura (1/7/2021)
Many thanks for your video!! I highly appreciate your help!!You are welcome :)
Now looking into the future (new automated alembic import) and trying to see if importing external garments from OBJ into MD is really a viable option, I came to the conclusion, that it is not.
This feature is highly underdeveloped so to speak.
You can apparently bring the OBJ as garment without UV tracing with no problem. But then there is no materials separation and no patterns of course.
So you may not assign different fabric and physics to parts of the garment.
UV Tracing on the other hand, is totally useless (at least for a few closing items I was trying to import). Algorithm is not smart at all.
A small UV inconsistency in joining parts and imports fails, or only parts of the mesh is imported.
Even after fixing UVs, some parts of the mesh does not show up after import (although no error is displayed anymore).
Importing missing parts separately, again does not offer the option to convert to pattern so that is can be stitched to the rest of the imported garment.
Another problem is, that resulted UV does not follow original texture at all. You have to spend quite some time editing UV in MD to match the texture.
And that is such a simple thing to automate. As I said - quite underdeveloped.
Maybe with some luck something can be eventually imported successfully, but I tried DAZ medium to high complexity cloths and it mostly failed.
PS I'd be glad if someone proficient in MD gives some pointers.