I give up

How do I link the skirt panels to eachother in LoopRez? Not link at the waist but all the way down. I have read a tutorial but it doesnt seem to work. It involves making a copy of the skirt, pulling it up then linking it together and I am not doing it correctly, evidently. Any help is always very appreicated.

You mean "link" as in stitch the panels together so there is no gap between them as they are worn? Can't be done. If you did it, the entire skirt would be stiff and solid, like a bell. Flexi skirts are flexible because the individual panels hang independently and are attached only at the waist end.

Link to this tutorial please

I don't think you can actually stitch the panels all the way down, however you can make a prim skirt that doesn't require as many panels. Or you can create a sculpty skirt....I'm just not so sure about stitching them down though. But I'd love to see the tutorial you've read!

Actually, let me clarify my earlier post. Yes, you CAN stitch the panels together, but only by making them non-flexi. There can be good reasons for doing this, and maybe you had one of those in mind. For the dress in the attached photo, for example, I wanted to create a design that deliberately swung like a bell but then had a flexi ruffle around the hem. I created essentially two skirts and linked them together, one above the other. The top one is now rigid -- although it swings gracefully from the waist as I dance -- and the bottom part (the ruffle) responds nicely to the breeze. If that's the sort of purpose you were thinking of, then yes, it works. Sorry if I wasn't quite clear enough before.

Here is what I was looking at. I tried this, sort of lol and couldnt do it, evidently cuz its still not linked. Go down to
5. Linking the Skirt Panels

http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/12/day-97-making-flexi-prim-skirts-with.html

Im not sure of what I was looking for. I just wanted to link them and didnt realize it would make it poofy and rigid. Thank you for the pic. That really explains a lot.
All of the info here has been very appreciated and clears some things up for me. Thank you guys very much, all of you. Im so glad I decided to come here!

That picture looks like a one-prim upper skirt and a flexi lower skirt with carefully-done overlapping. If you look around the bottom edges you can see they overlap just a little. If you set the flex params carefully you can minimize the risk of them flexing further apart than they overlap.

My next question has to be what is the difference between PRIM AND FLEXI? I think I know but I dont want to ass-ume.
It says take a copy of the skirt so I thought it meant a copy of the flex skirt I was working on. I may have completey misunderstood the directions.

Ok, I now see what she is trying to do. This is the end result of the flexi-prim skirt.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_4yuh0-Ww7FI/RZT9QXdUP5I/AAAAAAAAA6c/b2LKEUFuv3w/s1600-h/Snapshot_009.bmp

A prim is a basic building block, of any shape. SOME prims can be given a Flexi feature, which means that they respond to wind, gravity, or other things that may cause movement. A prim skirt is made of one or more prims arranged to resemble a RL skirt. If the prims are flexi, then the skirt appears to flow as you move. If they aren't, then they are stiff, like boards. To be flexible, prims have to attach only on their -Z end.