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But to answer that question, I think the answer is no it doesn't. I think it gets expanded, not re-sized. Meaning, the extra unused pixels are filled with nothing in particular. They just take up space. The UV coordinates are just mapped to 0 to 3999 instead of 0 to 4095.

Ah, I see, thank you for the 'splain. Makes sense. I should have seen that.