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DeepPurpIe
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago

Editing the Family Tree Problem

Here is my quandary... I recently created a new sim and his girlfriend. As my gameplay expanded with these two I decided I wanted to flesh out their background and created a brother for my main Sim. Then I realized I would like him to have a full family, mother, father etc.

I added the additional family members through cas.fulleditmode. Creating the brother was no problem. It was like it was originally intended to be that way. But then when I went back in to create the parents and another sibling, I for some reason am having problems!

The father relationship with his kids is fine, and his wife (their mother) registers with him, but the boys (except for the one made in the third round) do not register the mother as a mother! They all have different mothers and even so, when you exit and go back into live mode the relationship doesn't even show up as step mother.

When I try to change the relationship it says that you can't edit a preexisting sim, but I was able to do it with everyone else! And the mother was created using genetics so whats the problem?

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5 Replies

  • If you don't create the parents before the siblings, you'll run into trouble. See that blank sim in their family tree? It's like the game spawns some fake parent for them if you don't create real parents first, and then you can't get rid of the fake parent. The only way I've been able to fix it is to make a "twin" of the messed up sibling, delete the original, and make sure the correct mother and father are set on the new sibling before you leave CAS.
  • Can I go back into CAS mode and save them all to the library?? Because creating a sim is not the same as duplicating them. All their outfits are different it's annoying. I'd rather just create that family again if I can without starting from scratch.
  • If you save them all to the same household, the family tree will look the same with the blank parent because it saves all the family ties. Maybe if you try saving each sim individually? I haven't tried that though, just a guess.

    Yeah, I know it's annoying. I've been through this a bunch of times before I learned to just always make the parents first.

    Or (I think) I have been able to unlink the siblings, then make parents for one sibling, then finally relink the siblings after the parents are made. But only if none of them have children. It's so complicated, lol!
  • Whats weird is that they don't even recognize her has the step mother. The last thing I need is them flirting with their Mum.
  • @DeadFishy did you ever resolve this? I'm having the same issue. I moved my adult daughter out now my character doesn't know her own daughter is her daughter ??‍♀️

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