Ncloth Memory Leak?

[bjohnston]

Hello,

I have encountered an nCloth problem on both my Linux and windows Maya nCloths. I create simulation, and each time I play it back it gets offset before it begins the simulation again.

If I run the sim to frame 20, go back to frame 1 and run again, the sim doesn't start until frame 20. If I let the sim run to frame 100, go back to frame 1 and run again, the sim doesn't start until frame 100, and so on.

Does anyone know what is going on?

[duncanbrinsmead]

It sounds like you are not rewinding all the way to the start frame as defined on your nucleus node. Perhaps you changed the frame rate, thus bumping up the exact time value for frame 1 (it starts relative to zero) thus making it higher than the start frame value on the nucleus node. (you could try to increase the startFrame value on the nucleus node or lower your start time value for playback)

Duncan

[bjohnston]

Thanks for the reply. It appears that I had "show nCloth" in my panel off, and one will get this "problematic" delayed solver initiaion result. This was unclear to me at the time of writing my post as my other fields wouldn't work while the nucleus' gravity CONTINUED to work regardless of showing them or not.

Instead of caching every simulation prior to playblasting, I wanted to playblast as I adjusted, without seeing the node icons in it.