Heyo anyone who's around supporting the workshop, I've been messing with creative ways to apply skins directly to blender for live editing.
Just today I've been figuring out how to bake textures from the regular UV to the PatternUV for weapon parts.

What does this mean?
It means I can collect the textures for the regular weapon and rearrange its textures to fit the PatternUV (Picture below)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1339874845

And with this I hope I can use blender to emulate the payday2 workshop editor and let you hand brush stickers and patterns on skins with UV wonkiness being a non-issue since brushing in blender applies it to the model and then to the UV instead of UV to the model.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1339867315

Anyway, If anyone knows blender feel free to assist.

For now I'm going to start investigating color lookup in blender.