09 · ADVANCED
Caches, Rebake and Recovery
Cloth NeXt treats playback caches as versioned production data. A successful Bake records the geometry and settings identity used to create the result. Changing solver-visible settings or geometry invalidates that relationship and a Rebake is required.
- The old valid result remains authoritative while a replacement Bake starts.
- The new cache is verified before Cloth NeXt hands playback over to it.
- Obsolete owned cache generations are cleaned only after the successor is committed.
- Recovery data is accepted only when it matches the expected solver and scene identity.