Setting the context for cloth bake

Question

I'm having trouble using bpy.ops.ptcache.bake().

I get the error message bpy.ops.ptcache.bake.poll() failed, context is incorrect no matter what I set the context to. I tried using bpy.context.area.type="PROPERTIES" but I still get the same error.

How can I set the context in order to bake a cloth simulation in a script?

Answer 1

You need to override the context for the operator to work. similar to this answer on baking fluid or smoke, you can bake the cloth cache for every object in the file which has a cloth modifier like this:

import bpy

for scene in bpy.data.scenes:
    for object in scene.objects:
        for modifier in object.modifiers:
            if modifier.type == 'CLOTH':
                with bpy.context.temp_override(scene=scene,
                                               active_object=object,
                                               point_cache=modifier.point_cache):
                    bpy.ops.ptcache.bake(bake=True)