Understanding the Relative to Parent option

- If it is that we have decided to use Substance files … inside Unreal for our materials, … then a concept that we will need … to have firmly locked down in our minds is the fact … that Designer actually has two size modes. … The first, and default option, being relative to parent. … The obvious question though, is what does this mean? … And how does it effect our material? … Well, essentially the size modes will use … either the application … that a Substance file is imported into … or the graph in Substance Designer itself … in order to determine a starting resolution. … So, if we go ahead and create a new Substance … graph here, we see that we have access to a size … mode dropdown that is, as noted, set by default … to relative to parent. … Meaning, our Substance is going to be looking … to the application that it is sitting inside of … in order to determine the start size or resolution … that it should be using. … For example, here we have Unreal open and if we have … an explorer window that has our Substance folder …