Invisible Visitors (With Pic)
Magicmoon:
I'm having a problem with invisible visitors on my residential lots, both in the regular neighborhood and in the university neighborhood. I haven't seen the problem on community lots, but I may have just missed it.
I don't have any townies, so all the invisible visitors are playable characters, who are not playable at the moment.
What happens is that I will see the pool cue playing a game of pool by itself, or I will see another visitor interacting with someone who isn't there. For example, I saw a visitor receiving a backrub, but no one was there. Whenever I click on Inge's shrub I always find that one of the sims that I am allowed to clear off of the lot is nowhere to be seen. If I see a visitor interacting with an invisible sim, I make them selectable and in their queue it will say "receive backrub from 'name of sim'". So I know that they are not interacting with the social bunny.
If I try to click on the invisible sim (because I know where they are when they are giving a backrub for example, nothing shows up just like there is really no one there.
The invisible visitor is not always the same person. It can be any visitor that I have previously greeted or just invited themselves over. When I play the lot of the invisible visitor, they are always completely normal. They are not invisible on their own lot.
Usually I use Inge's shrub to teleport them off of the lot since my controllable sims cannot interact with them although the other visitors on the lot seem to "see" them just fine. I have never had one of the invisible visitors start a conversation or otherwise engage in activities with my currently controllable sims. Later the same visitor may visit again and be completely normal.
Anyone know what could cause this? It has been happening for quite awhile. But it took me a long time before I figured out what was going on. At first I thought that I just had haunted pool tables or that the pool table had a problem as that was the most noticeable sign.
I've tried to find a common thread such as the same downloaded object on all the lots that have the problem, but I can't find anything that is common to all instances of this. I thought perhaps they became invisible after interacting with a bugged object.
Hack conflict finder doesn't show any conflicts, and I run duplicate file finder after every download session to be sure that I don't have any duplicates.
I did a search for this problem, but didn't find anything.
cwykes:
No answers for you. In case it's connected, I've had invisible Sims on business lots who were leaving without paying, but turned invisible and headed back to the til instead. Shopping bag in mid air queueing at the till..... I posted about it couple of days ago. The only reply was "I've had that too".
Magicmoon:
Yeah, I saw that thread. I don't have OFB so I'm not having that particular problem.
Ancient Sim:
The only time I get this is sometimes when I replace a revolting townie with a new one and they don't have the right clothes. Sometimes it's just a head and hands, sometimes there's nothing at all. I've got round it by moving them in with Inge's bush, making them selectable, getting them to buy clothes, then making them a townie again. For some reason, none of the mods that deal with clothes-buying work on visitors, which is why I have to temporarily move them in.
Doesn't sound like this is your problem, but it might be worth putting them in front of a mirror to see if they are wearing any clothes or in the buff. Mine always appear without clothes when I do that. If they are naked, there is possibly a problem with their clothing and you might like to try changing their outfit to see if that makes any difference.
Magicmoon:
Well, like I said, it isn't the same visitor all the time. It is always one of my random playables and they would all be wearing a different outfit. I cannot make the invisible visitor selectable, so there is nothing that I can do with them while on that lot. When I go to where they live, everything is fine. And mine are always totally invisible. I haven't seen any body parts like hands floating around.
As far as getting townies, etc to wear different clothes. I downloaded a mod by Christianlov over at MTS2 that takes care of that quite nicely. You click on the clothes rack and tell it whose clothes you want to change. (Buy clothes for townie). It will charge the amount of purchase to whichever sim family has the rack in their house, in other words, whoevers lot you are on. That person will then come onto the lot, walk over to the clothes rack and then the "buy clothes" popup displays. Choose the clothes that you want them to wear. As a bonus, the next screen is the makup screen and the one after that is the surgery screen so if you want to make-over those ugly townies, you can do it.
Just do a search for Christianlov on MTS2.
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