# setMaximumDistance on an EventInstance?

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/setmaximumdistance-on-an-eventinstance/11764>\
**Category:** FMOD Engine\
**Created:** [December 12, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/setmaximumdistance-on-an-eventinstance/11764 "2014-12-12T12:04:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![fsilvestrim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fsilvestrim](https://qa.fmod.com/u/fsilvestrim)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/setmaximumdistance-on-an-eventinstance/11764/1 "2014-12-12T12:04:58Z")

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Hey guys,

is there any way of changing the minDistance and maxDistance of a 3DSound that was defined in FMOD Studio - via the EventInstance or attributing a new EventDescriptor just like we do with it’s position via Studio::EventInstance::set3DAttributes?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![geoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@geoff](https://qa.fmod.com/u/geoff)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/setmaximumdistance-on-an-eventinstance/11764/2 "2014-12-14T23:09:02Z")

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We don’t expose that in the API at the moment. We’ll consider it for a future update.

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**Author:** ![fsilvestrim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fsilvestrim](https://qa.fmod.com/u/fsilvestrim)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/setmaximumdistance-on-an-eventinstance/11764/3 "2014-12-17T12:05:47Z")

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> We don’t expose that in the API at the moment. We’ll consider it for a future update.

That would be very appreciated! Please let me know once you have a roadmap for it! Thanks.

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**Author:** ![patrick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/patrick/32/261_2.png) [@patrick](https://qa.fmod.com/u/patrick)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/setmaximumdistance-on-an-eventinstance/11764/4 "2016-12-15T03:06:19Z")

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Just a heads up for anyone that revisits this question – since Studio 1.07 you can now call Studio::EventInstance::setProperty() with FMOD\_STUDIO\_EVENT\_PROPERTY\_MINIMUM\_DISTANCE and FMOD\_STUDIO\_EVENT\_PROPERTY\_MAXIMUM\_DISTANCE to set the min and max distance programmatically.

See [https://www.fmod.org/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD\_Studio\_EventInstance\_SetProperty.html](https://www.fmod.org/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetProperty.html) for more information.