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- When townies and npcs woohoo and take their clothes off, their bodies are invisible from the waist to the feet, while their upper bodies still show skin properly. I am using an anatomically correct default skin replacer as well as vanilla clothes for my townies, and the sims in my household show their full body correctly when nude.
- Headless Sims, also known as Invisible Sims can be created with Create a Sim in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. One method to obtain the headless Sim in The Sims 3 is to download the Grim Reaper, then select him in CAS, he is in pre-made Sims. The player must change his everyday clothes but not select any other clothing type. He becomes headless and has no feet. The other method can be done with.
- One particular invisible sim bug is fixed by changing outfits. If you don't want to use Edit Town/can't use Edit Town because it's a challenge or a dynasty, I'd try throwing a party with something other than casual wear as the dress code, which will force the invisible sims to change their outfits and hopefully appear again.
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Dec 20, 2010 I have recently installed Sims 3 World Adventures on to my PC and I also updated the game at the same time. 250 honda big red repair manual. So now I created a sim and sent them travelling to China, Egypt and France and all 3 times my sim becomes completely invisible except for the plumbbob (the diamond above of it's head) And so I try to plan outfit or change appearance (and the sim is not there), and for some reason.
Most of the suggestions listed in Already Have the Issue? Meshcam art keygen. have solved this bug for many people. While many are affected by World Adventures and Sims going to or returning from vacation, it has also affected those without World Adventures. If you already have the recommended mods below, these will keep the town in tip-top shape by the auto-cleanup scripts in ErrorTrap or other mods. If they do not, you have the option of triggering the fix manually by following the steps stated.
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Issue & Symptoms
- click to enlargeYou get Green empty Thumbnails where the Sims thumbnails are. The Portrait of the Sim is also missing in the HUD Panel. Not pictured is how the invisible Sim look like with just a plumbob floating over thin air. (First image)
- click to enlargeUpon loading a save game, you find the HUD panel missing, and there are no Map Tags. None of the keys (F1, F5, or F10, etc) works. (Second image)
- Upon traveling, from patch 1.22 onwards (with Generations release), you may also get clones (aka doppelgangers, as some call them) of your Sims
- Upon traveling, you lose relationships with those in the Relationship panel. Or you suddenly gain a new family member or acquaintance
- Upon traveling, Sims' ages get messed up
Causes
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The most common cause for the Missing Sims bug is according to Twallan a 'Missing or wrongly referenced outfits' issue. The missing or having clones while traveling to and from WA Destinations is due to the buggy EA StoryProgression. StoryProgression is also the cause of messed-up Relationships and Aging. How to change font color on windows 10.
Solutions
How to Avoid Issues
While a fix or workaround are still being sought, there are some things you can do to help prevent the issue from occurring in the first place:
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- Make sure your system meets the Minimum Requirements as well as the slightly higher recommendations from MTS
- Make sure your Graphic and Audio Drivers are up to date, DirectX is up to date, and close all unnecessary programs running in the background (some even disconnect from the internet)
- Run the game from admin user account or with admin privileges, doing so helps eliminate many user related issues.
- Those that tend to stick with one family (don't switch active households) tend to have less issues and problems.
- Do NOT use EA Story Progression especially if you have World Adventures. EA Story Progression is the default when you install your game. Even if you uncheck the box to disable it, it may still be running and corrupting your game. Try NRaas Story Progression, or AwesomeStory
- If you find Sim(s) missing during gameplay, 'Quit Without Saving' Yes, you will lose progress, but the alternative is losing the game entirely.
- If you have World Adventures and plan on sending your sims on vacation, make extra backups of the save using 'Save As' to save the game. Save often, and rename each appropriately so you know which is which. Doing so can minimize loss, if you experience game issues, computer crash, power outages, etc. Save the game before going on vacation, during vacation, and just before returning, etc. This will help you tremendously, should the Traveling Glitch make your sims or user interface corrupt or invisible. Twallan's Traveler mod also helps.
- By default, the game allows teens, young adults, adults, and elders to travel to Vacation worlds. In contrast, children are permitted to return to the home world as well as the other age groups. Neither of which allow babies or toddlers to travel. While this may be changed in a tuning file, doing so may cause your game to have issues.
- Also note at what day of their life cycle each Sim is on, before traveling. There were several reports of Sims showing up with an incorrect age appearance, even though they were in the correct age cycle.
Already Have the Issue?
As noted earlier, these fixes or workarounds work for most people, once the issues occur and even if you save the game once the issue has occurred. You can try the steps below to see if it solves your issue, but there are no guarantees. It should also be noted, there are various reasons for Sims to become invisible and or the user interface to become corrupt and each is treated differently. Some can be solved (if root cause is known), others can't.
- You made sure you had not accidentally pressed the TAB key or F10 key to hide the User Interface
- Try using Twallan's mods available @Nraas Industries
- Master Controller mod: click on a Sim, Nraas > MasterController > Household > ResetLot
- Debug Enabler mod:
- click on a Sim (or City Hall), Nraas > DebugEnabler > Option:Sim (if Sim is clicked) > Fix Invisible Sims
- open cheat console (Ctrl+Shift+C) and enter 'forceHud' (requires 'testingcheatsenabled true' first)
- Error Trap mod: other users have reported this has helped them if they let the game run past its auto-cleanup time at 3am Sim Time, and
- Overwatch mod: proven effective with removing items during gameplay which can cause lag and other issues.
- Traveler mod: to help prevent missing Sims upon Arrival or missing UI issues.
- Try removing All Custom Content Remove Sims3 Custom CC Wizard
- Refresh/Delete the Cache Files especially when you add or remove custom content.
- If possible, try using the cheat: 'resetsim (first name) (last name)'; or 'resetsim *' to reset ALL Sims in the world
- If possible, save the current family to the library. Evict and delete the existing family, then place the saved family in the same house. Choose them as your default family in live mode. NOTE: doing this may allow you to play the family, but outside relationships, dreams and wishes, careers, etc will be lost. However, before doing this step, you might want to try ResetLot command as shown above first.
- At the first sign of an invisible Sim/missing Sim or missing UI Panel, quit the game without saving. Then follow the Restoring Backup Saves Guide and attempt to load the backup save to see if you can continue with the backup. This, also, may not work as the backup may also be corrupted.
- If after quitting and reloading the game, the UI Panel is still missing, you can enter 'forceHud' in the cheat console. You need DebugEnabler for this to work.
- Uninstall and Reinstall. Completely Uninstall the game, move or rename the User Files (DocumentsElectronic ArtsThe Sims 3 folder). Once you have completely uninstalled and removed all traces of The Sims 3, then reinstall and patch your game. From a Guru on Sims 3 Forum 'The reason uninstall/reinstall is often suggested, especially manual uninstall, is that with the wide variants of systems, hardware, mods/no mods, exchange content, store content, etc. It is possible that somewhere along the way a file was changed or modified in a way that was not intended. Doing a completely clean install updating directly from install to the newest versions, and playing a new game or a for sure 100% clean save are the best ways to be certain that there aren't any additional outside programs/changes effecting the game and causing errors to pop up. '
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- 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.
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Our new site is at http://nraas.net - 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.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg - 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.
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- 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.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg - I had this happen to a sim once where they got stuck underground and I just MC reset them and it fixed the issue.1
- Dealing with invisible townie sims is one thing I've had a hard time with. When you don't know who it is, it's hard to reset them. For quite some time, after I got NRaas mods, I used Master Controller to reset the whole town every night. While I was doing that, I had no invisible townies, but it caused other problems. So, I started just resetting all the sims in town every night, right after Overwatch finished its nightly maintenance. That worked better, but was time-consuming to do. I've tried Overwatch repeatedly, with the fix invisible sims command, but it never fixed the ones on the lot where I was. I've finally found a solution that works for me every time, and isn't such a pain as the other ways I tried. When I see evidence of an invisible sim, I click on the ground of the lot and choose Master Controller > sim > basic > outfit, then when I get the panel to choose from all the sims on the lot at the time, I choose all of the ones I hadn't seen, or didn't remember seeing, and select the everyday outfit.
Sometimes it's easier than that. If I see a pair of skates going around the skating rink, all I have to do is click on the skates and change the outfit. LOL!2 - edited June 2015Post edited by WooftheWolfie on
I know this wasn't directed at me, but I'll respond anyway. People like to chat about their games and the different experiences they have in fixing things that go wrong along the way. Some of it is repetitive, some of it shows that they have seen things happen in other unexpected ways and can help other players. And sometimes threads wander away from their original topic.Does anyone even read the posts before theirs? A lot of you just say the same things. Please don't do this.
You can't direct people to stop posting to your original question after it's been answered on a chatty message board. Chastising those who do this is a great way to stop people from responding to your posts at all, I'm afraid.
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- 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.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg - @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.
- @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!
- 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. - 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.0
@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)! :PFortunately, 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.
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- 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)1 - edited November 2018Hi @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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