Invisible Sim

It means his clothing assignment has gone bad. Not the clothes themselves, just the assignment. I get this all over the place when playing a new world for the first time, as do many other players, but only occasionally in ongoing worlds and almost always with inactives.

The solution is to somehow get him dressed again and it should stop (for that sim). Since you mentioned plumbob, I take it he is in your active household and you could just have him change his clothes. Or you could re-select his Everyday outfit (or whatever he should be wearing) with MasterController > Outfit.

It might be a bad career outfit. Try taking him to a dresser and choose change outfit and see if that fixes it.

If that doesn't work try Reset Sim. If you have NRAAS mod that lets you to it their way that would be better as it rebuilds the Sim.

But changing the outfit should fix the problem.

"WooftheWolfie;841023" wrote:
I have this elder Sim named Alfonso Proper. When I started playing a few minutes ago, he didn't show up. Like, when the game started he just wasn't there. His plumbob, blue skill cylinder, and thought bubbles were closer to the ground than were it would be if he showed up. I can still choose actions for his character, I just can't see him. What's going on and why?

I'm not sure what's going on but I've been having this problem with sims from other households (I've also been having a problem moving sims or merging households). Since I have NRaas MasterControl sims in my town have tags. So I go into map view, select the sim via the tag and then edit them in CAS. The invisible sim then materializes.

Strangely enough, when it's a bad outfit assignment, MC resetting a sim doesn't help. It just rebuilds the bogus assignment as it was. But NRaas DebugEnabler has a command called "Fix Invisible Sims" that seems to catch around 80% of these and fix them all at once, within a given world. Not necessary when we are talking about one sim, but sometimes helpful otherwise.

Thank you all. I will try what you guys said.

"igazor;13791547" wrote:
Strangely enough, when it's a bad outfit assignment, MC resetting a sim doesn't help. It just rebuilds the bogus assignment as it was. But NRaas DebugEnabler has a command called "Fix Invisible Sims" that seems to catch around 80% of these and fix them all at once, within a given world. Not necessary when we are talking about one sim, but sometimes helpful otherwise.

Clicking on the dresser to change outfit should fix the outfit problem.

If it wasn't an outfit problem and the Sim was underground (the plumbob was low) then reset sim should have brought it to the surface. Hopefully.

I had this happen to a sim once where they got stuck underground and I just MC reset them and it fixed the issue.

Dealing with invisible townie sims is one thing I've had a hard time with. When you don't know who it is, it's hard to reset them. For quite some time, after I got NRaas mods, I used Master Controller to reset the whole town every night. While I was doing that, I had no invisible townies, but it caused other problems. So, I started just resetting all the sims in town every night, right after Overwatch finished its nightly maintenance. That worked better, but was time-consuming to do. I've tried Overwatch repeatedly, with the fix invisible sims command, but it never fixed the ones on the lot where I was. I've finally found a solution that works for me every time, and isn't such a pain as the other ways I tried. When I see evidence of an invisible sim, I click on the ground of the lot and choose Master Controller > sim > basic > outfit, then when I get the panel to choose from all the sims on the lot at the time, I choose all of the ones I hadn't seen, or didn't remember seeing, and select the everyday outfit.

Sometimes it's easier than that. If I see a pair of skates going around the skating rink, all I have to do is click on the skates and change the outfit. LOL!

Meow. Nevermind this post.

"WooftheWolfie;13794534" wrote:
Does anyone even read the posts before theirs? A lot of you just say the same things. Please don't do this.

I know this wasn't directed at me, but I'll respond anyway. People like to chat about their games and the different experiences they have in fixing things that go wrong along the way. Some of it is repetitive, some of it shows that they have seen things happen in other unexpected ways and can help other players. And sometimes threads wander away from their original topic.

You can't direct people to stop posting to your original question after it's been answered on a chatty message board. Chastising those who do this is a great way to stop people from responding to your posts at all, I'm afraid.