Swapping UV Textures for larger images?

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Hi,

Still learning blender! Loving it though. i have a question about UV textures.

How do I replace a UV texture with a larger image in this situation.

So let’s say I’m using this image:

http://www.spriters-resource.com/download/44472/
444721499×1408

So. Let’s say I have my object unwrapped and mapped onto this texture… then I want to add 3 more head variants. So I leave the original centered, expand the canvas, and add 3 more heads. May I just swap out the UV texture so that all the previous mappings remain the same, but I can have a larger canvas to add more objects?

I tried this and by default it didn’t work.

Any tips or hints would be greatly appreciated! This community has been fantastically helpful thus far.

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Why don’t you use separate Textures? One for each variation…