---
title: "Layer Controls"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/FLGRADIENT-FLBASE.html"
section_path: "Create Menu > Field > Modifier layers > Colorizer > Layer Controls"
element_id: "FLGRADIENT"
group_id: "FLBASE"
description: "The Colorizer Layer requires source files, based on which it calculates new color values. This can be the values of the following Field channels:"
---

## Layer Controls

### Source

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_GRADIENT_SOURCE`

The Colorizer Layer requires source files, based on which it calculates new color values. This can be the values of the following Field channels:

- Value
- Color
- Direction

Select the respective channel. Based on these files, the colors of the definable **Gradient** below will be dispersed.

![Image: 041722.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/041722.jpg)\
Left: **Source** set to Value. On the right, Color with a Spherical Field (which uses the gradient shown). The Colorizer lies behind the Spherical Field.

### Gradient

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_GRADIENT_GRADIENT`

Use this setting to define the gradient whose colors should be dispersed.

### Cycle

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_GRADIENT_CYCLE`

Imagine the gradient running continuously with passing animation time. This is what happens when this option is enabled.

### Scale

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

Use this setting to scale the color region with regard to the Input value range. For example, if 300% is defined, the gradient's colors will be spanned three times across the value range.

### Offset

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

Use this setting to fine-tune the temporal offset.

### Animation Speed

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_GRADIENT_ANIMATIONSPEED`

This is the number of animation frames required by the gradient for one cycle. Smaller values will produce correspondingly faster cycles and vice-versa.