# Select Poly face based on texture value?
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-poly-face-based-on-texture-value/5328
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** mel
**Created:** [April 30, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-poly-face-based-on-texture-value/5328 "2003-04-30T17:41:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tnt](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/tnt)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-poly-face-based-on-texture-value/5328/1 "2003-04-30T17:41:01Z")
Is there a script out there that reads the value of a grayscale texture mapped to a polygon and select faces based on it's value? Example: I have a black texture with small white areas, I want to select the faces that the white areas are mapped to.
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@jeffd](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/jeffd)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-poly-face-based-on-texture-value/5328/2 "2003-05-01T03:48:46Z")
I don't know of anything that does this out there. If I had to do it myself I would bake the map into vert colors and then write a script that selects verts based of of that vert color value. Then convert selection to faces.
--JeffD
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### Author:  [@tnt](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/tnt)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-poly-face-based-on-texture-value/5328/3 "2003-05-01T17:22:43Z")
That sounds like a good idea but since I'm a bit new to scripting with polygons I don't know how to do that. I'll look into it.
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/joojaa)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/select-poly-face-based-on-texture-value/5328/4 "2003-05-02T07:28:38Z")
I think artisan and paint selection tool specificaly can do this quite simply. but doesent work on procedurals so you need to convert themm to soleids first!