Hi,

I've recently been trying out Marvelous Designer and have pleasing results taking the garment from there to Substance Painter for texturing.

The UVs are good, coming from the MD pattern. Now I want to retopologise the mesh keeping the original seams and layout.

I'm finding some parts difficult to get around - for example, I have a pleated sash made from a simple rectangle, folded and stitched. Once MD had simulated it, it looked cool but is pretty complicated as a high-res obj - I can't get into the folds and overlaps to place the points and polygons.

The annoying thing is I can see the basic shape laid out nice and flat in the original UVs, all it needs are a bunch of square polys across it. Is there any way I can retopo over the UV layout, or otherwise flatten the mesh a bit so I can get in a little easier?

thanks