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title: "Options"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/TOOLHAIRMIRROR-MDATA_MAINGROUP.html"
section_path: "Simulate Menu > The Simulation System > Hair > Tools, Functions, Modes > HAIR Tools > Mirror > Options"
element_id: "TOOLHAIRMIRROR"
group_id: "MDATA_MAINGROUP"
description: "If in the Clone mode, the selected guides can be doubled and mirrored onto the opposite side of the mirror surface."
---

## Options

### Mode

Parameter ID: `HAIR_MIRROR_MODE`

Clone

![Image: 005169.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/005169.jpg)\
Cloned guide with **Auto Root** active.

If in the **Clone** mode, the selected guides can be doubled and mirrored onto the opposite side of the mirror surface.

Interpolate

This mode interpolates edited hairstyles. Guides must, though, already be present on the other side of the selected guides or of the mirror surface. These should be distributed symmetrically, since only very small diversions from **ideal** symmetry can be compensated for.

![Image: 005170.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/005170.jpg)\
The selected guides are shown on the mirrored side as a preview.

### Auto Root

Parameter ID: `HAIR_MIRROR_ROOT`

This setting can only be used in conjunction with the **Clone** mode and ensures that the cloned guides are planted (rooted) right away – assuming geometry exists at the location to which the guides are cloned.

### Strength

Parameter ID: `HAIR_MIRROR_STRENGTH` · Range: [0..100%]

Use this slider to define the strength of interpolation on the guides. The higher the value, the closer the affected guides will match the mirrored guides.

### Search

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

If the arrangement of guides is not perfectly symmetrical, when in the **Interpolate** mode, you can try to find a fitting equivalent to the selected guides on the mirrored side by increasing the **Search** value (the guide root being the decisive factor). This will only work with an existing guide distribution that is fairly symmetrical. Guides that **grow wildly** (i.e. those created using the **Polygon Area** option in the Hair object's **Guides** tab) will not exactly be partial to this function.

### Guides

Parameter ID: `HAIR_MIRROR_NEIGHBORS` · Range: [-2147483648..2147483647]

![Image: 005171.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/005171.jpg)\
From left to right: Initial state; guide = X; guide = 10.

If a guide is found on the mirrored side when in the **Interpolation** mode, the **Guides** setting will cause exactly as many interpolations to be created in close proximity the mirrored guide, i.e., the guides within a close radius will be made to look similar to the hairstyle that was mirrored.

### Coords

Parameter ID: `HAIR_MIRROR_COORDS`

Use this setting to select the coordinate system the mirror plane (**Mirror** setting) should use:

- World: World coordinate system.
- Local: The coordinate system of the hair-covered object.
- Custom: The coordinate system of the object in the **Object** field.

### Mirror

Parameter ID: `HAIR_MIRROR_PLANE`

Use this setting to determine the mirror plane. The corresponding coordinate system should be selected using the **Coords** setting.

### Object

Parameter ID: `HAIR_MIRROR_LINK`

If **Custom** is selected in the **Coords** setting, the coordinate system of the object placed into this field will define the coordinate system of the mirror plane.