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FIX: Alr, for whoever is watching this in the future, the animations (.anim) files themselves were broken during the ripping process, found out when previewing them in the editor, replaced these anims with news ones that were in the original base model and worked like a charm

sir please update this guide, it is very outdated.
each time i import an avatar i get this error: Plugin 'Packages/com.vrchat.base/Runtime/VRCSDK/Plugins/VRC.SDK3.Dynamics.Contact.dll' has the same filename as Assembly Definition File 'Assets/Scripts/VRC.SDK3.Dynamics.Contact/VRC.SDK3.Dynamics.Contact.asmdef'. Rename the assemblies to avoid hard to diagnose issues and crashes.

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Easiest way would be deleting the faces of the base underneath the clothes
you would not be able to have multiple outfits/hairs though

you could also try manually decimating the body so it has less faces/triangles in areas that dont bend