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FrancesWeyr's avatar
2 years ago

Plumbobs going AWOL

Yesterday the plumbobs disappeared in the Sims 3 world I had been playing in. I didn't notice the exact moment they went, but it was the day the mother in the household aged up to elder. I uninstalled four CC items I had installed earlier that day. Then I reset the town with Nraas. I tried switching households to see if it was a household problem. I deleted the cache files. The game was closed and restarted after each action. Still no plumbobs, although the plumbob flickered over Elvira (the new elder) for a second before winking out last time I tried it. I had been fooling around with a new festival lot, so I'd been entering cheats and entering/exit "edit town" a fair few times that day. I mention the age transition and the world editing in case these could be a factor, although I've edited and aged Sims before in this family with no issues.

I tried another save file and the plumbobs appear there. I'd really like to fix this save rather than abandon it, as I'm kind of invested in this little pixelated family. Does anyone else have any ideas?

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  • The Sim Vlad over at modthesims posted this:
    Type Control+Shift+C to bring up the console, then enter the following code:

    hideHeadlineEffects That code should hide all meters and effects in the game, such as the plumbbob and skill meter, which is ideal for movie making.
  • I would guess hideHeadlineEffects off should bring them back.

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