thank you for your quick response

what I did was created the top in Hexagon and then uv maped it.. after that I split it into body groups so it would conform and when I did that .. that is when I lost the uv mapping..

then I took the v3 blank cr2 and edited it to work with the shell top obj.

maybe I am going about this wrong... should I be grouping in a different program ?.. Now when I try to uv map it it is in pieces.. such as neck, lshoulder, rshoulder,  chest and abdomen