Clear Map

(default keyboard shortcut _)

To clear a Vertex Map, select the map you want to clear from the VMap Bar, and click on the command. All values will be cleared, no matter which kind of map you chose. (Weight, Texture (UV), Endomorphs, Color Vertex Maps, or Selection Sets.)

To clear an entire map, make sure no points or polys are selected before you click.This differs from the Delete Map command because it leaves the map. Only the information contained in the map is deleted, so you can immediately begin to put more information in, without having to create another map. If you don’t add information, the map will be deleted when you leave it. (Empty maps don’t persist in LightWave.)

To partially clear a map, select the points or polys that you would like to clear. Click the button, and the values for those points and polys will be gone.

This is extremely useful, as it allows you to correct your maps on a point-by-point basis.

Don’t use this function to clear a copy of a map to make symmetrical morphs, etc. Instead, just select the part you want to keep when you copy the map in the first place.