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title: "Texture Map Settings"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/html/4_palettes_tool-15-texture-map-settings.html"
section_path: "Palettes > Tool Palette > Texture Map > Texture Map Settings"
description: "A collection of features to assign, edit, and create texture maps for the selected subtool."
---

# Texture Map Settings

A collection of features to assign, edit, and create texture maps for the selected subtool.

![Image: 2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-menu-header.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-menu-header.png)\
Palettes > Tool > Texture Map

> **Important:** All Texture Map menu options require models with UV coordinates.

## TextureMap

Opens the Texture Palette Picker library. Textures selected from this menu are assigned to the selected subtool.

![Image: 2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-picker-menu.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-4-tool-palette-geometry-texture-map-picker-menu.png)\
Palettes > Tool > Texture Map

## Texture On

Toggles visibility of the selected texture map.

> **Important:** This option is disabled if no image is selected in the Texture Map Picker or if the model lacks UVs.

## Clone Txtr

Duplicates the current texture and adds it to the Texture palette as the active texture.

## New Txtr

Creates a solid-colored texture map from the selected primary color channel and activates the Texture On switch.

> **Note:** The texture size is set by the Tool Palette > UV Map > UV Map Size parameter.

## Fix Seam

Redraws the edges of disconnected polygons to eliminate background artifacts and unwanted seams.

## Polypaint from Texture

Converts the active texture map into polypaint, applying it as vertex color on the model.

> **Note:** The model must have UV coordinates and the RGB channel must be active to use the Polypaint from Texture button.

## Transparent

The Transparent slider adjusts the transparency of the selected texture map's pure black colors and the corresponding polygons.

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

> **Note:** The example above demonstrates that when set to 1, all black color values appear transparent, making the associated polygons invisible in the viewport.
>
> Increasing the Transparent value beyond 1 expands the transparency effect to include grayscale colors slightly lighter than pure black, with a maximum tolerance that prioritizes shades closest to black.

> **Important:** The Transparent parameter does not support subtle transparency effects to the polygons; areas are either fully transparent or opaque.

## Antialiased

Softens color transitions on the selected Texture Map when active.