I used the muscle transfer recipe to successfully transfer the muscles, bones, proxy mesh and rig to my character. However, on the first frame of the muscle sim, the muscle's instantly turn to nans. I have stepped through every sop but am kind of at a loss. Any suggestions on where to look would be helpful. Thanks.
edit: When I disable collisions, the behavior goes away, but obviously that's not a valid workaround.
h21.0.470 build.
Full Version: Otis / Otto muscle sim collapses on first frame
As a follow up. I've paired the muscles down to just a few and found that some muscles don't nan and some do. Here's an example of a muscle that does nan, "L_pronatorTeres". As soon as the solver progresses to the second frame, the geo disappears into nans.
For now I have a solution. I adjusted Max Size to .009 (default was .01) on the muscle solidy in the muscle_setup1 subnetwork.
Are you on Windows? We've been seeing this reported on Windows machines, but it works fine on Linux. We are looking into it.
Actually I am seeing this on Linux. My home box is windows on h21.0.510 and no issues.
Oh interesting, what distro and what are your machine specs?
We've seen cases where the geometry created by the Muscle Transfer process contains very, very small tetrahedra (on the order of 1e-15), which can lead the solver to become unstable with floating-point precision.
One thing to try is just delete any incoming tets below a certain threshold. They are so small they often make no difference in the appearance of the sim. Try a Primitive Wrangle with the following code:
And put this below both the incoming muscles and fascia setups, as in the green "remove_tiny_tets" nodes below:
EDIT: Actually all the outputs from the `muscle_setup` node should likely be re-routed through `remove_tiny_tets`.
One thing to try is just delete any incoming tets below a certain threshold. They are so small they often make no difference in the appearance of the sim. Try a Primitive Wrangle with the following code:
if(primintrinsic(0, "typename", @primnum) == "Tetrahedron" && primintrinsic(0, "measuredvolume", @primnum) < 1e-10) removeprim(geoself(), @primnum, 0);
And put this below both the incoming muscles and fascia setups, as in the green "remove_tiny_tets" nodes below:
EDIT: Actually all the outputs from the `muscle_setup` node should likely be re-routed through `remove_tiny_tets`.
Liesbeth_Levick
Oh interesting, what distro and what are your machine specs?
Rocky Linux 9.6
CPU Intel i9-12900KF
GPU Nvidia 3090 Driver version 580.65.06 Cuda Version 13.0
As of H21.0.555 both Muscle Solidify and Tissue Solidify Otis will warn you if you have tets that are too small for the Otis Solver to handle. You can either try the suggestions in the warning to fix it, or just blast away the "tiny_tets" group that is created in this case.