Problems setting relationships in CAS
I have a large legacy family I remade for The Sims 4. The family consists of three YA siblings, their spouses and one sibling's teen son. In the CAS demo, I made all the YA and set their relationsh...
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Ok I think I have solved this problem @rkchick @‌mariesalias @albanie
This new patch has given me the right rsole today, from constantly crashing, to code being shown instead of text- to faceless invisible family members in peoples family tree that showed no identity (probably a result of all that culling of sims) to this family swap business.
- Anyway, this is the long winded way I finally got it to work. After much trial and error, the most successful way is to take the family you are having problems with and separate them into individuals- if you have a child, use the testingcheats - cas.fulleditmode cheats and age them up for the short term, so they can be split from the family. Now this is done- go back to manage these newly separate sims in cas- then save them out to your library. Do this with all the members in turn.
Once this is done, delete all but one of these sims from your game. Now just play the one remaining sim on their lot as normal- if you haven't already, put the testingcheats true - cas.fulleditmode back on. shift and click the remaining sim that you are playing with, and select edit in cas. Now from the create sim icon at the bottom, choose the import from library option, and bring each separated member back into the household- change the age back on any characters you have changed. Now starting with the mother/father you should be able to change their relationships to what they should be. Then save and play
Unfortunately you will have to reintroduce all these sims to each other again- but they do at least keep their traits. I just cheated the friendship/romances back to get them to how they were before- pain in the backside if they were very social before, but at least it worked. I have had to do this with 10 households now, and although time consuming, it has got rid of the invisible icons, and put things back to how they were.
Also found out why it was crashing so severely when I first started doing this- I was getting flooded by randomly generated townies again (I removed my mods because of the patch) so when I put that restrict townie mod, it suddenly stopped crashing which stopped much salty language I can tell you.
This new patch has given me the right rsole today, from constantly crashing, to code being shown instead of text- to faceless invisible family members in peoples family tree that showed no identity (probably a result of all that culling of sims) to this family swap business.
- Anyway, this is the long winded way I finally got it to work. After much trial and error, the most successful way is to take the family you are having problems with and separate them into individuals- if you have a child, use the testingcheats - cas.fulleditmode cheats and age them up for the short term, so they can be split from the family. Now this is done- go back to manage these newly separate sims in cas- then save them out to your library. Do this with all the members in turn.
Once this is done, delete all but one of these sims from your game. Now just play the one remaining sim on their lot as normal- if you haven't already, put the testingcheats true - cas.fulleditmode back on. shift and click the remaining sim that you are playing with, and select edit in cas. Now from the create sim icon at the bottom, choose the import from library option, and bring each separated member back into the household- change the age back on any characters you have changed. Now starting with the mother/father you should be able to change their relationships to what they should be. Then save and play
Unfortunately you will have to reintroduce all these sims to each other again- but they do at least keep their traits. I just cheated the friendship/romances back to get them to how they were before- pain in the backside if they were very social before, but at least it worked. I have had to do this with 10 households now, and although time consuming, it has got rid of the invisible icons, and put things back to how they were.
Also found out why it was crashing so severely when I first started doing this- I was getting flooded by randomly generated townies again (I removed my mods because of the patch) so when I put that restrict townie mod, it suddenly stopped crashing which stopped much salty language I can tell you.
