---
title: "Distance"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/TOOLHAIRBRUSH-HAIR_TOOL_BRUSH_GROUP_DISTANCE.html"
section_path: "Simulate Menu > The Simulation System > Hair > Tools, Functions, Modes > HAIR Tools > Brush > Distance"
element_id: "TOOLHAIRBRUSH"
group_id: "HAIR_TOOL_BRUSH_GROUP_DISTANCE"
description: "Activate the Distance Falloff setting if you want the strength of the brush tool to abate along the length of the brush stroke."
---

## Distance

### Distance Falloff

Parameter ID: `HAIR_TOOL_BRUSH_DISTANCE_FADE`

Activate the **Distance Falloff** setting if you want the strength of the brush tool to abate along the length of the brush stroke.

### Distance

Parameter ID: `HAIR_TOOL_BRUSH_DISTANCE` · Range: [0.00..+∞]

This is the distance in screen pixels over which the falloff (or the abatement defined with the **Distance Falloff** graph) will occur within a given brush stroke

### Falloff

Parameter ID: `HAIR_TOOL_BRUSH_DISTANCE_CURVE`

![Image: 005137.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/005137.jpg)\
The guides pictured above are influence by the **Distance** curve below (**Kink** mode).

The **Distance** curve defines how the strength of the brush tool will be varied over the length of a given brush stroke, as defined by the **Distance** value.