Is it possible to make a vertex selection using a texture map?

[Jimmy Compton]

Is it possible to make a vertex selection using a texture map like you can in the Cloth > Make Group modifier? (Max 2019.) I've tried copying a selection out from the Cloth modifier, but it doesn't seem like you can.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Changsoo Eun]

Use Data Channel modifier to copy vertex selection as UV or vertex color. Then, use vertex color map or gradient.

[Josef Wienerroither]

or use the old Volume select modifier.. has a texture option too...

 

[Jimmy Compton]

It was the texture select option in the Volume Select modifier I was looking for. I feel like it should be named Surface Selection or something else, not Volume Select. To me, that's not a volume. I basically got lucky finding it under Volume Select.

Thanks.