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title: "Options"
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section_path: "Simulate Menu > The Simulation System > The various Simulation Tags > Cloth Cache Tool > Options"
element_id: "CACHETOOL"
group_id: "MDATA_MAINGROUP"
description: "Moves the selected point. The neighboring points, defined by Frames + / -, will follow the Fall-Off function (described below)."
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## Options

### Mode

Parameter ID: `CACHE_TOOL_MODE`

Select from **Smear** and **Smooth**.

![Image: 005425.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/005425.jpg)\
Top: prior to tool being used; center: Using **Smear**: bottom: Using **Smooth**.

Smear

Moves the selected point. The neighboring points, defined by **Frames + / -**, will follow the Fall-Off function (described below).

Smooth

The selected point is of less importance here. This function smooths the spline in the area defined in the **Frames + / -** setting using the Fall-Off function, described below.

### Show +/-

Parameter ID: `CACHE_TOOL_SHOW_RADIUS` · Range: [1..2147483647]

Use this setting to define within which temporal range or, as the case may be, how many spline points before and after the actual time should be displayed.

### Frames +/-

Parameter ID: `CACHE_TOOL_FALLOFF_RADIUS` · Range: [0..2147483647]

This is the temporal range in frames or, as the case may be, the spline points before and after the actual time that should be influenced by the **Cache** tool.

### Strength

Parameter ID: `CACHE_TOOL_FALLOFF_STRENGTH` · Range: [-∞..+∞%]

This is a global factor that symbolizes the **Cache** tool's strength.

### Falloff

Parameter ID: `CACHE_TOOL_FALLOFF_MODE`

Use this setting to define the type of falloff. You will find this function in chapter 10, **Magnet**, p. 542 in your Cinema 4D reference manual. If **Spline** is selected, the curve in the field below can be adjusted manually.

### Width

Parameter ID: `CACHE_TOOL_FALLOFF_WIDTH` · Range: [0..+∞%]

Use this setting to define how soft or hard the effect of the tool should fall off.