Re: Snowy Escape rental is unfurnished and Sim disappears

@puzzlezaddictThank you for the suggestions. I cleared the cache and repaired the game again.  I, also, deleted and re-downloaded the pack.   I am now able to see furnishings in lots that already have a family living there.

However, the rental properties are still "empty" unless I actually go on vacation. I have been using the "travel" command, as I only want to see what the property is like, rather than taking a vacation to it.

What is strange about the lack of furnishings is that ... when I go into build mode, all of the furniture is there. But as soon as I exit build mode, it is, once again, missing.

Also, my Sim still disappears after going into the empty rental. Very strange. I can see her footprints as she walks in the snow, and I can see things she carries, such as food or drink from the vending machine. But she is invisible.

Is this a bug?

@cyndisa  Sorry for the late reply.  Just so I'm clear, you can't see the furnishings in live mode when your sim travels to the world but isn't renting the house, but they're otherwise there?  And does your sim disappear while on the lot, or only when going inside the house?

I took a look in my own game to make sure I was remembering correctly, and I was: when my sims visit an unoccupied regular (non-rental) house, I can see the furnishings through the windows.  But if I get close enough to make the walls drop down, everything disappears except for the floors and the cutaway walls: no furnishings, no appliances, etc.  (This only applies to indoor items.)  The same is true of a rental property.

The difference here is, my sims can't enter an unoccupied ownable house—from the hand waving and complaining, the door has to be locked.  But they can apparently enter a rental.  The one I sent to take a look did also disappear when she entered the rental house, but that's not surprising, since nothing else in the house is rendered either.  She appeared again when I told her to walk back out the door and off the property.  Interestingly, I could also see her inside through the window when I was zoomed out enough for the walls of the rental to reappear.

So no, I don't think this is a bug, I think it's a slightly weird side effect of how an empty house isn't rendered and the fact that sims can enter an unoccupied rental lot.

@cyndisa  I think it's normal, or at least not a bug itself, that the sim disappears while inside a house where the furniture is not being rendered.  If nothing is rendered, then that includes the sim, so maybe it's an oversight or just the way the feature is programmed.

The last part is definitely not what should be happening.  I looked again and did notice my sim was still invisible when initially exiting the house, but I zoomed out and she reappeared.  I'm not sure whether it happened because I zoomed out or because she stepped off the property; she'd exited through the back and had been standing on the patio.

Does it help if you zoom all the way out?  Does it help if you go to Manage Worlds and back?  What graphics settings are you using?  You can put the game in windowed mode and use the snipping tool (Windows key-shift-S) to capture the relevant portion of the screen, then open Paint and crtl-V to paste.