# Maintaining displacement mapping after rotating/scaling mc?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maintaining-displacement-mapping-after-rotating-scaling-mc/222968>\
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**Created:** [April 18, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maintaining-displacement-mapping-after-rotating-scaling-mc/222968 "2007-04-18T13:04:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maintaining-displacement-mapping-after-rotating-scaling-mc/222968/1 "2007-04-18T13:04:00Z")

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the help says that the displacement map creates a new copy of the source movieclip and manipultes it.  
can i use that copy? is there anyway to access it?

well, specifically, my problem is that the movieclip i apply this map to, may be rotated or resized later on. so i need the mapping to be consistent with it. how do i do this?