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# Texture to Mapping

**Texture to mapping** is one of the generative layer templates that simply renders an incoming texture to a maping you select. It is useful if you want to render one texture to several different mappings.

## Variables

### **Render**

Explained in [Stock Layer Templates](/layers-and-layouts/stock-layer-templates.md) with 2 additional variables:

* **Texture**: The texture that is going to be rendered to a mapping. It is also a Destination variable for a Layer connection.
* **Auto rename:** It renames the layer based on the selected Mapping.

## Setting up

This layer template relies on [Layer Connections](/layers-and-layouts/layer-connections.md). This means that the *Texture* variable needs to be the destination of another *Source* layer.