Can't Select Stage Marks

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@spiderhathead wrote:

I have had the same issues (stage markers not selectable, co-stars and film crew leaving the set, no food on the plates, co-stars not walking over to the right stage markers for group performance) for quite a while now.

I tried switching to another family/household as suggested by others here, but it didn't help.

However, I have finally found a workaround yesterday. I am not sure if I was just lucky or if it will work in the future, but I wanted to share it anyway:

You need testingcheatsenabled true. I had cas.fulleditmode on, too, but I am not sure if you absolutely need that.

You need to have more than one sim in your active household, but you could probably just create one during the procedure.

1) Shift click the sim that is stuck in the studio and can't continue their performance because of the bugged event.

2) Choose modify in CAS

3) Select another sim from your household, who is not currently in the studio. You do not need to modify anything about them, it is just important that you choose them before you leave CAS

4) You should now be back at your home lot or wherever the sim you selected is with that sim active and your actor sim in the studio with a red blinking work icon

5) You should be able to select the actor now and join them in the studio again

6) After that, it should be possible to continue with the acting event without further problems. Stage markers should be selectable again and the crew working as they should

I hope this will work for you, too as it did for me, good luck!

Edit:
I have had more cases of bugged stage markers and my workaround did unfortunately not work immediately every time.
I had to do the whole procedure several times right now before it actually worked and did shift-click and reset object (debug) the co-workers of my actor sim several times in the process, because they just did not want to walk over to the next stage marker. I added the co-worker to my family briefly, after everything else had failed and removed him again. After that, he walked out of the studio to go home. After I then again followed the 6 points described above, the game generated a new co-worker for me and I was finally able to finish the event.
I will investigate further if there are more reliable ways to fix the problem.

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there's a much simpler solution:

1. switch control to a a different household member.

2. let the time run for at least 1 minute so the other lot would not be the same when you go back.

3. switch control to the actor and the scenes will be available.

this works for me every time, hopefully for you, try.