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title: "Layer Controls"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/FLPROXIMITY-FLBASE.html"
section_path: "Create Menu > Field > Modifier layers > Freeze > Layer Controls"
element_id: "FLPROXIMITY"
group_id: "FLBASE"
description: "Each time this button is clicked, the current content will overwrite the Freeze Layer in accordance with the selected Mode. Furthermore, all Layers will …"
---

## Layer Controls

### Freeze

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_PROXIMITY_FORCE_SAVE`

Each time this button is clicked, the current content will overwrite the Freeze Layer in accordance with the selected **Mode**. Furthermore, all Layers will be taken into consideration, i.e., what you see is what you get. Or put differently, the current layer effect will be baked.

If **Mode** is set to Grow, repeated clicking on this button will call up the same growing effect as if you would play an animation.

### Clear

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_PROXIMITY_FORCE_CLEAR`

Click on this button to delete the Freeze Layer's contents.

### Mode

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_PROXIMITY_MODE`

This setting defines how the values saved in the Freeze Layer will be processed. These settings modify values for each frame of animation (enable **Auto Update** or soften the values (e.g., by setting **Mode** to Average) to do so).

What each modes does can be read [here](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/FLWEIGHT-FLBASE.html.md). For Grow, please refer to the main Freeze page.

### Auto-Update

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_PROXIMITY_DYNAMIC_UPDATE`

If this option is enabled, the **Freeze** function will be called up for each frame of animation.

An expansion or contraction of the effect's range will result, depending on which **Mode** is defined. You can, for example, generate Vertex Maps that expand from a small point.These can in turn be combined with a Noise Field, for example in the Field list, which will produce an irregular growth.

### Subfields Only

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_PROXIMITY_SELF_AGGREGATE`

Just for fun, create an Invert Layer after a Freeze Layer and then create a growth effect. You will see that a new inversion is created after each frame of animation and a flickering will be produced. In such cases, enable the **Subfields Only** option so the Freeze Layer ignores all other Layers (and at the most all Layers in the Radius tab)) except for itself in the Field list.

### Radius

Parameter ID: `FIELDLAYER_PROXIMITY_RADIUS` · Range: [0..+∞m]

Use this setting to define the **Radius** for the selected **Mode**. If, for example, Max is selected and the current point cannot find a maximum value within the defined **Radius**, no new weighting will be assigned to this point.

The smaller the value, the more locally restricted the effect will be and, in some circumstances, no growth effect will take place. The **Radius** value must then be increased.

[Subfields](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/58091.html.md) can be defined for the **Radius** setting. This can, for example, be used to create irregular growth using a Random Field.

### Effect Strength

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

Use this setting to affect the speed of growth. Smaller values produce correspondingly slower speeds, larger values increase speeds accordingly.