Also, welding is just connecting 2 parts of an already troubled uv map, or perhaps depending on the cuts doing nothing at all in relation to the uv so I'm not surprised that your welding in UVMapper didn't fix anything. My suggestion was to weld and subdivide to see if that helped. Strictly as a narrowing down process.

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