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title: "Delay"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/FLDELAY.html"
section_path: "Create Menu > Field > Modifier layers > Delay"
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description: "This page documents the Delay layer in Cinema 4D's Field system. It smooths Field changes over time so effects follow with inertia — the temporal easing …"
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# Delay

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
>
> This page documents the **Delay layer** in **Cinema 4D**'s Field system. It smooths Field changes over time so effects follow with inertia — the temporal easing counterpart to the Decay layer.

![Image: 041718.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/041718.jpg)\
An effect that runs from left to right with two different delay modes.

The Delay Layer influences the temporal course of changes (due to fields/modifier layer arranged in the field list in front of it; which also includes color changes, for example) and can therefore also have an effect outside a field influence area. This makes it similar to the [Decay Layer](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/FLDECAY.html.md), although a few special effects are integrated here - such as the spring effect.

# Example

Here, 2 Delay field layers act on the animation generated by a linear field. The *Spring* **Mode** is used in the foreground and the *Smooth* **Mode** in the background.

[Video: 2026-0_delay_field_01_.mp4](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2026-0_delay_field_01_.mp4)

[![Image: halvar.png](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/halvar.png)](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Scenes/2026-0_delay_field_01_.c4d)