Unable to instantiate inactive sim

Echoweaver · Post by **Echoweaver** » August 28th, 2023, 12:26 am

I have a theory that a mod I installed may have borked up some inactives in my game. There are some teens that the game acknowledges for some things and not others. I can run MasterController "Status" on them, for example, but not Stylist -- I just get a message that no sims match the criteria. I can't get them to instantiate in the world at all, as far as I can tell. When my active calls and invites them over, I get, "I'll be over in a minute," and then my active sim resets. I've attempted to invite them to parties, but then nobody comes to the party.

Two I noticed this with were homeless that I think were generated randomly as classmates. However, I just noticed it with a premade who is a friend of one of my actives and who I previously interacted with in the game.

This is the ErrorTrap message I most recently got trying to invite that premade over. Not very descriptive.

So I guess the question is -- is there any insight here, and is it possible to recover the sim?

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-- Script Errors --


Object:

Name: Chantrelle Riffin
Type: Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sim
Object id: 0x39ad00cf8af1ce90
Position: (1008.6000, 15.6961, 940.1746)
Room id: 0
Level: 0
Flags: InWorld, IsUsed
Lot: Sims3.Gameplay.Core.Lot
Lot Name: Wellspring - 3br, 2ba
Lot Address: 1935 Beach Boulevard
IsValid: True
World: AppaloosaPlains
OnVacation: False
Season: Fall
Posture: Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sim+StandingPosture
Household: Riffin
LotHome: Wellspring - 3br, 2ba
Active Actor
SimDescription:

Name: Chantrelle Riffin
Age: Teen
Gender: Female
SimDescriptionId: 3141542499305253536
LotHomeId: 644859433305930384
HomeWorld: AppaloosaPlains
Proper Genealogy
Valid: True
Species: Human
Household: Riffin
Occult: None
Alien: 0
Career: &lt;Unemployed&gt;
School: High School (1)
Lot: Wellspring - 3br, 2ba
Address: 1935 Beach Boulevard
Skill Sculpting: 3
Skill Voidcritters: 0
Skill Skating: 2
Skill Fishing: 0
Skill Gardening: 0
Skill WildlifeFriend - Hidden: 0
Skill Handiness: 3
Skill Logic: 1
Skill Painting: 2
Skill Nerd Influence: 0
Skill Jock Influence: 0
Skill Writing: 1
Skill Homework: 10
Skill Child Gardening: 0
Skill Blocks: 3
Skill Collecting: 7
Skill Photography: 0
Trait Technophobe
Trait Clumsy
Trait Bookworm
Trait Savvy Sculptor

Interactions:
1: Invite Maisy Over
Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.Phone+CallInviteOver+Definition
Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.Phone+CallInviteOver+Definition
UserDirected

Counter: 1
Sim-Time: Thu. at 10:52 AM
Start-Time: 08/28/2023 00:03:38
PreLoadup-Time: 08/28/2023 00:04:36
Loadup-Time: 08/28/2023 00:05:41
Log-Time: 08/28/2023 00:10:49

System.NullReferenceException: A null value was found where an object instance was required.
#0: 0x0003a callvirt in Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.Phone+CallInviteOver:GetSimToLot (Sims3.Gameplay.CAS.SimDescription,Sims3.Gameplay.Core.Lot,Sims3.Gameplay.Core.Lot) (79639C40 [493A8660] [49603000] [49603000] )
#1: 0x00038 call in Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.Phone+CallInviteOver:OnCallFinished () ()
#2: 0x0010b callvirt in Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.Phone+Call:Run () ()
#3: 0x00005 ret in Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Electronics.Phone+Call:RunFromInventory () ()
#4: 0x000d2 stloc.u1 in Sims3.Gameplay.Interactions.Sims3.Gameplay.Interactions.InteractionInstance:RunInteractionWithoutCleanup () ()
#5: 0x00348 stloc.u1 in Sims3.Gameplay.ActorSystems.Sims3.Gameplay.ActorSystems.InteractionQueue:ProcessOneInteraction () ()
#6: 0x0011c stfld.u1 in Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sim:DoInteraction () ()
#7: 0x00015 br.s in Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sim:Simulate () ()
#8: 0x00027 leave.s in ScriptCore.ScriptCore.ScriptProxy:Simulate () ()



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igazor · Post by **igazor** » August 28th, 2023, 1:24 am

This may be a sign of sim corruption on the part of the resident sim (the one being invited over in this case is a resident, correct?), assuming they are still actually entirely within the world being played, But does anything different happen if you use MC > Invite Over instead of the often more fussy telephone method? And what happens if you go to their house, if they have a house, to do a friendly Wellness Chick on them?

Also, has the game clock started moving forward smoothly at the time this was attempted? The log time seems awfully close to the world's loadup time.

Echoweaver · Post by **Echoweaver** » August 28th, 2023, 8:17 am

The log time is close to loadup time because I loaded up the game to trigger this error and get a copy of it

.

MC's Invite Over is the same as Edit in CAS. MC reports that no sim meets the criteria. However, I can. use MC to get status information on the sim. If I use MC Focus, the camera moves to the house, but if I open the lot and watch the sims in that household, this one never shows up.

It's like the sim exists only in metadata. The game has lost something it needs to instantiate it.

Chain_Reaction · Post by **Chain_Reaction** » August 28th, 2023, 9:11 am

Interesting. What is the result of resetting the lot with MC?

Echoweaver · Post by **Echoweaver** » August 28th, 2023, 11:31 am

Chain_Reaction post_id=96479 time=1693228319 user_id=2 wrote: Interesting. What is the result of resetting the lot with MC?

I've used both Reset Lot and Reset Everything. In both cases, I get the same metadata effect. If I click the lot and check MC Household status, the sim is listed as part of the household. If I click the lot and choose MC Sim->Stylist, the sim is not present as an option. And if I open the lot and watch the sims, all of them are wandering around but this one.

C-Dark · Post by **C-Dark** » August 28th, 2023, 2:39 pm

What about using Overwatch from Cityhall
immediate
Recover Missing Sims

Chain_Reaction · Post by **Chain_Reaction** » August 29th, 2023, 2:32 am

This sounds like heavy outfit corruption. Try Fix Invisible Sims with DebugEnabler on the city hall and see if that does anything.

Echoweaver · Post by **Echoweaver** » August 29th, 2023, 10:16 am

Chain_Reaction post_id=96502 time=1693290727 user_id=2 wrote: This sounds like heavy outfit corruption. Try Fix Invisible Sims with DebugEnabler on the city hall and see if that does anything.

That worked! Thank you!

I did try Recover Missing Sims, but I'd guess they weren't "missing."

I did think about outfit corruption, but I forgot that option was there. I tried City Hall->Immediate->Clean Up Outfits, but I'm not sure I understand how that works. I do have Clean Up Outfits set to run in the Overwatch config. I guess that's not for this kind of issue.

ETA: Oh, that function does something completely different.

My theory of what caused the corruption is probably wrong because DebugEnabler reported another 11 sims that needed outfits recovered. The problem with a heavily modded game is that there are so many options for what might have done it.

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