Difference between the size of the project, and the exported file size?

Question

Hello everyone,

this is my first post about substance, I have a question.

I want to do detailed texture, and when I create a new project on substance I noticed that the limit size is 4096 pixel (but often on tutorials I see people going with only 2k), but when I export my created textures I can go over (4096, 8192), I wanted to know whats the point of exporting 4k, or 8k texture if you paint your texture with 2k pixels?

Maybe it's a stupid question but there is something I don't get,

Thank you in advance for any answer 🙂

davescm · Answer

Many materials are procedural and they recalculate automatically if you pick a higher export size. So for example, if your PC is limited, you could apply them and paint them at 2K to speed up the screen drawing process then switch to 4K or 8K on export to ensure the finer texture details are included in the exported maps.

Dave

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