Failed to generate clothing sim mesh due to degenerate triangle

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Hi All!

When attempting to Create Clothing Asset from Section on a mesh with a clearly selected section I get the error:

**Failed to generate clothing sim mesh due to degenerate triangle, found conincident vertices in triangle A=X=0.742 Y=-22.883 Z=148.878 B=X=0.962 Y=-23.335 Z=150.640 C=X=0.962 Y=-23.335 Z=150.640

**I have a vague idea of what this could mean, but can anyone assist me with first correcting the problem and secondly giving me enough information so I don’t make it happen again?

Thanks in advance!

PC

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I have the same issue and I can’t find a solution anywhere.

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Probably means you’ve got vertices on top of another, in Blender you would fix this by doing Remove Doubles.

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Hey, I know I’m a bit late, but try changing (in the APEX export settings) the output unit to centimeters instead of meters. We noticed in the .xml files that correspond to the .apx files that are exported from the scene, the *ContactOffset *value was really, really low. Once we changed the output unit, the *ContactOffset *value became larger and we no longer saw the error in Unreal. My theory is that the export size was so small, that the engine interpreted the distance between vertices small enough to call them coincident.

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I have encountered this as well, there is a typo in the error “conincident” should be coincident vertices, which means vertices occupying the same space withing some tolerance. It appears that distance tolerance is around 0.06 or less.

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Omg thanks my guy this was the problem

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Hi, I’m working with some mesh that isn’t the cleanest, but I did merge doubles, etc. What did you do to fix your issue?

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Thought I’d leave a more concise answer, for anyone experiencing this problem (as I was):

Remove Doubles has been replaced with the “merge by distance” function in Blender. It’s now located in Edit mode, under Mesh > Merge > Merge by distance. You want to be sure to increase the distance from the default value of 0.0001 to something higher if you get the message “0 vertices merged”. For me, I increased the distance to 0.01 until I got the message “3 vertices merged”, at which point I was able to reimport the clothing mesh, and create the cloth physics data.

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