---
title: "Create"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/html/4_palettes_tool-15-texture-map-create.html"
section_path: "Palettes > Tool Palette > Texture Map > Create"
description: "A collection of features to generate a new texture map from different targets relative to the model."
---

# Create

A collection of features to generate a new texture map from different targets relative to the model.

![Image: 2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-create-menu.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-create-menu.png)

> **Important:** All Texture Map > Create options require UV coordinates and a texture map assigned in the Texture Map menu.

## New From Polypaint

Creates a texture map from the model's polypaint.

## New From Masking

Creates a black and white texture map from a mask applied to the model.

### Quick Steps:

1. Go to Texture Map > Polypaint From Texture to convert the texture back to polypaint on the model.

2. Use Masking > Mask By Intensity or Mask By Color to recapture the mask from the polypaint.

> **Tip:** To reuse a custom mask created with New From Masking, ensure the model retains the same UV coordinates. Later, you can reapply the saved texture map as a mask by following these steps:

> **Tip:** This method saves time by avoiding the need to recreate the same mask manually.

## New From UV Map

Creates a colorized gradient texture map to view UV shell seams on the model's surface.

![Image: 2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-create-new-from-uv-map-example.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-create-new-from-uv-map-example.png)

> **Important:** If PolyFrame > Line is active, New From UV Map adds the model's topology frame to the new texture map.

## New From UV Check

Creates and assigns a new texture map to the model, displaying overlapping UV areas highlighted in red.

## New From Vertex Order

Creates and assigns a colorized texture map to the model based on the vertex order.

![Image: 2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-create-new-from-vertex-order-example.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-create-new-from-vertex-order-example.png)

Red, green, blue, and purple colors represent the relative order of vertices on the model, with the gradient serving as a visual tool to check for consistency and correctness in the vertex order.

> **Note:** Red represents vertices with a lower index (closer to the start of the vertex list). Green and Blue represent vertices further along in the vertex order (further from the start of the vertex list).
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> Purple represents vertices mid-way in the index order or those influenced equally by two coordinate axes (red and blue).

## New From Polygon Order

Creates and assigns a new colorized texture map to identify the model's polygon order in its current state. Use this map to check if the polygon order has changed after being in another application.

![Image: 2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-create-new-from-poly-order-example.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-create-new-from-poly-order-example.png)

Black, green, blue, yellow, and purple are indices for ranges or groups of polygons within the model's overall polygon order.

> **Note:** Black: the first polygon in the order.
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> Green: early polygons in the order.
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> Blue: middle polygons in the order.
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> Yellow: later polygons in the order.
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> Purple: end of a group of polygons.