# Multicomponent Mapping

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/multicomponent-mapping/7836
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 19, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/multicomponent-mapping/7836 "2021-08-19T07:49:35Z")
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### Author: ![Upkar\_SIngh](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/d2c977/32.png) [@Upkar\_SIngh](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Upkar_SIngh)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/multicomponent-mapping/7836/1 "2021-08-19T07:49:35Z")

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I have data in form of points and I want to map these points to two variables. One for color and one for transparency. Is it possible to do that in surface rendering or point rendering. Volume rendering option is not available for this data.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2021, 8:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/multicomponent-mapping/7836/2 "2021-08-19T08:08:46Z")

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Only supported for volume rendering afaik