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? Edit: Stop answering guys. The thread is over now.

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.

"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.

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WafersAppleHung
11 years ago
Oh. I see.
karritz
Legend
11 years ago
I should also add that when I wrote my post there were none there at all. When I looked back at this thread later on I found three of us had answered at the same time and our 3 posts had all appeared after each other. There was no way for any of us to avoid this other than to not post ever just in case someone else had was posting at the same time.
WafersAppleHung
11 years ago
@Karritz Sorry, I'm new to this site so I didn't know it would be that way. On another site it tells you when someone makes a post when you're typing your post. I thought it would be the same here.
Computerguy1232
8 years ago
@IreneSwift At long last! This is exactly the solution I was looking for. The "Fix Invisible Sims" option never seemed to work for me. Many thanks!
CleoAndyMaster
8 years ago
Fortunately, I have only ever had this happen ONE TIME since the release, at a gym in Sunset Valley when I had just the base game.
I forgot this was a thing that could happen.
TreyNutz2
8 years ago
"cleo00;c-15964513" wrote:
Fortunately, I have only ever had this happen ONE TIME since the release, at a gym in Sunset Valley when I had just the base game.
I forgot this was a thing that could happen.

Wow! I find at least 50% of the NCP Showtime performers appearing around town do so without any bodies (i.e. invisible). I always have to use the MC>Outfit route to get them to apear. Otherwise it's just a microphone on the ground with crowd in awe.
DarkSuperNinja
8 years ago
"cleo00;c-15964513" wrote:
Fortunately, I have only ever had this happen ONE TIME since the release, at a gym in Sunset Valley when I had just the base game.
I forgot this was a thing that could happen.

@cleo00 That's luck at it's finest right there! xD I'm pretty sure I've encountered every Sims 3 glitch more than once at this point; I'm really unlucky when it comes to broken games. This one was ESPECIALLY annoying (until I started modding, then it basically solved 99% of my problems)! :P
Deafsimmer
7 years ago
Which mod fixes this bug?
InfraGreen
7 years ago
"46982459843;c-16826614" wrote:
Which mod fixes this bug?

I don't know of any straight fixes but anything that'll force you to change the outfit of an invisible sim is a fix. Whether that's through MasterController with Basic -> Outfit or even just traveling to a lot with that sim where they'll have to change their clothes (like the enforced formalwear dress code of lounges, or a party with a dress code)
EA_Lanna
Community Manager
7 years ago
Hi @46982459843, please check out this thread on Answers HQ and select 'Me Too' to show you are also having the same issue. The user in that thread has the same issue. If you check out @crinrict's post, she has shared information through her blog linked in her post. I'll lock this thread in the meantime as it's been bumped/necro'd.

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