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Virtual Reality VR in Unity VR Setup HTC Vive Setup

Posted by Rob Hunter
Rob Hunter
4,962 Points

PxCloth::setExternalAcceleration() not allowed

When I hit play in Unity, Unity freezes and I get the following error (2x) in the console:

[Physics.PhysX] Call to PxCloth::setExternalAcceleration() not allowed while simulation is running.

I'm running this on an HTC Vive which runs games successfully. Odd behavior: it consistently happens on a cold start (~4x fails) - when I open SteamVR and then hit play it fails every time. However, when I already had SteamVR open and try, it worked (1x success).

Rob Hunter
Rob Hunter
4,962 Points

I'm using Unity version 5.6.0f3 Personal - I found a thread suggesting there's a problem with 5.6:

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-5-cloth-crash-all-time.455395/

I'll see if I can't use 5.5.

3 Answers

Rob Hunter
Rob Hunter
4,962 Points
Rob Hunter
Rob Hunter
4,962 Points

Downgrading from version 5.6 to 5.5 of Unity seems to have done it.

Alec Justice
Alec Justice
14,089 Points
Alec Justice
Alec Justice
14,089 Points

Running into the same issue even after Unity's recent patch that was supposed to fix it. Installing 5.5 this afternoon to try it out.