Script Error in University

A null value was encountered where this forum description was required.
Post Reply
mistress_derp
Reactions:
Posts: 8
Joined: May 26th, 2019, 11:15 pm

Script Error in University

Post by mistress_derp » June 23rd, 2019, 6:36 am

Hi,

I have a sim who is about to graduate from university, so I invited her mother to the ceremony. First time, it seems to work except my sim randomly exited the building way too early, so I exited to main menu and went back in again (I'd saved while she was on her way to graduate). This time, her mother caused a script error. Normally this wouldn't bother me because it resets them back to their home lot, but since the mother is visiting the uni town for graduation, I can't find where she disappears to, so I exited without saving again and tried a third time. Again, script error from mother so I tried inviting her out via phone and she reappeared to join up as a group, but then script error again, so I quit without saving and it is suspended with my sim on her way to graduate.

I would like for the mother to be present at the graduation, but if this is not possible, will her script erroring mess up the game for when my sim returns home again?

Here's a link to the last script error text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZcU ... sp=sharing

User avatar
igazor
Organizer
Reactions:
Posts: 17102
Joined: April 8th, 2013, 6:00 pm
Answers: 203
Location: Everyone should strive to find their inner platypus.

Script Error in University

Post by igazor » June 23rd, 2019, 8:31 am

1 - You have a custom idle animation mod, or one that is supposed to replace or prevent certain idle animations from running, in play whose name is not revealing itself that is causing the script error on the visiting mother. If you can figure out which mod this is, it should be removed (or an update sought). I note that the interaction the mother was supposed to be running at the time was Freak Out; possibly she encountered an occult at the ceremony and that was her intended reaction to having done so? This last part is just a guess, though.

2 - The game should never be reloaded from the Main Menu, nor should other saves be loaded that way, without quitting the entire game to the Desktop (or Origin if relevant) after a game session has been quit and before reloading. There is a glitch in the game's programming that can cause elements from one game session to be superimposed on the next one this way with all kinds of problems being caused because the contents of RAM are not being entirely cleared out in between such game sessions. This happens with or without mods, but the presence of the Traveler mod can make it worse/more likely.

You are in a good place as you have a save to revert to from before the graduation ceremony and any related problems started. Honestly though, I find that the entire Uni grad scenario is too buggy to cope with and, unless I am after photo opps, usually just don't bother with it. NRaas DebugEnabler has a command that can be run on the sim slated to graduate once they get back home that confers the Uni degree and all of the same benefits that the ceremony does for the sim in question. It even has them spin into their graduation robes while this is happening. But if you must try to play through the ceremony scenario again, I would say you are in a good place to do so.

User avatar
Chain_Reaction
Site Admin
Reactions:
Posts: 7568
Joined: December 30th, 2011, 6:00 pm
Answers: 81
Contact:

Script Error in University

Post by Chain_Reaction » June 24th, 2019, 11:14 pm

The error is odd. Not sure if there's a broken tuning mod at play or EA being weird. It doesn't look like an error that should happen every time though. It's always the same error about idles?

Post Reply