I'm having a bit of a dilemma right now. I want to make a collection with the current IKEA plushies/soft toys, so I begun with the "FABLER BJÖRN" teddy bear:


My first attempt had orange splotches from the original teddy bear texture, so I made another one.
This is the current and updated clean version texture I made:

And the "worn" texture:


The issue is that ingame, it looks like this:
If you look at it from the front, it looks okay except for the fact that the overalls mesh from the original teddy bear mesh is still there and it looks weird. There are sleeves and the hem from the pants is visible.

The feet look just chubby on the ankles if you view it from above, but the sleeves really ruin it for me.

Problem number 2: The original texture shows on the ears just a bit, but still enough to make me annoyed.
I could just remake the recolour yet again and fix that little problem but the mesh issue is bigger.


I'm actually surprised the striped outfit looks better than I had expected it to, because that was the hardest part of making this bear and judging from the texture I doubted it would look right.

So, 2 main issues:
The overalls mesh is too prominent and the original ear texture shows, which is fixable.
I care about the overalls mesh issue more because unlike the ear texture, I won't be able to fix it. I can't mesh, as that is beyond my abilities.
I'm not even talking about the blurriness of the texture, I think it's an issue regarding if I forgot to choose DXT3 when building DXT, as I think that's what happened.

I have 2 choices: Either fix the ear texture and upload it here without changing the mesh, or not upload it at all because the mesh issue is too big to be ignored.
What are your thoughts?