Caches, rebaking and recovery
Know when a result is still valid, when you must rebake, and how Cloth neXt protects your previous result.
You can tell when to rebake, and you can resume an interrupted bake.
- A scene with a finished bake.
Step by step
- Know what a cache is tied to
A finished bake remembers the geometry and settings it was made with.
- Rebake after changes
If you change geometry or any setting the solver uses, the result is out of date. Click Rebake.
- Your old result stays safe
While the new bake runs, the previous valid result stays in use. Cloth neXt checks the new cache before switching to it and only then removes old versions.
- Turn on recovery for long bakes
Keep Enable Recovery and Auto Save Checkpoints on. A checkpoint is saved every 20 frames by default, and the last 3 are kept.
- Resume after an interruption
If Blender or the bake stops unexpectedly, click Resume Latest, or Start Fresh to begin again. Only checkpoints that match the current scene and solver are offered.
- Clean up
Use Clear Result to remove a Cloth neXt result. It never touches other files.
You rebake after solver-relevant changes, and long bakes can resume after an interruption.
If something goes wrong
- No checkpoint is offered
- The scene or solver changed since the checkpoint was saved, so it cannot be used. Rebake.
- The result looks old
- Something changed since the bake. Rebake to bring it up to date.