The Mysterious case of the Silhouetted Sim

[SciBirg]

I have a sim dormie at uni who has a tendency to go either invisible or like a black silhouette.
It started with me selecting her with Merola's mindcontrol mirror and giving her a makeover like I do to all dormies as a matter of course.
But when I used JM's clothing tool and bought her a nice outfit, it didn't show up there. Neither did ANY other clothes! Same when I tried a regular dresser.

In her pic in Bodyshop she is naked but with the makeup I put on her. I  can change her hair or her makeup but not her clothes. I can redo her face with the career object, redo her aspiration and turn ons/offs without a hitch.

So, now she is just wandering around invisible. If I have her take a shower she becomes the black silhouette.
And in the FFS lot debugger there is this Fix broken mood boosts item that does not go away when I click on it.

Any clues as to how to fix this?

[SickPuppy]

I've had sims where the head turned into a blue polygon...if the plastic surgery object doesn't fix it I use Simpe's Sim surgery plugin. You need to have a stored copy of the sim prior the disfiguration to do this(a saved neighborhood or a Sims2pack/package file). Annnd you may get a crimplipped sim from the surgery, although this is fixable if you know how

[SciBirg]

But it is her entire body that is "naked" but silhouetted/invisible.
It is like clothing has been disabled on her...

[Ancient Sim]

What was she wearing originally?  I was unable to change Sophie Miguel's clothes when I restarted Pleasantview.  I can't stand that awful tracksuit she wanders around in, but no matter how many times I bought her new outfits with the clothing tool, she couldn't wear them.  I wondered if it was because the tracksuit is also classified as athletic as well as everyday. 

[SciBirg]

She was wearing that ugly blue Maxis sweaterdress.
But it is not selectable with clothingtool or dresser anymore.

[idtaminger]

I think NL did something to townies and their clothing. I used to be able to make a townie selectable, then direct him over to a dresser to change clothes. Now, after NL, whenever I do direct them to dressers, nothing ever shows up in the selection bin. So nowadays all my townies are stuck w/ their atrocious outfits. I really hope someone *hint hint* can mod it so that townies can change clothes again. Cuz it really is driving me nuts.

[C.S.]

I think NL did something to townies and their clothing. I used to be able to make a townie selectable, then direct him over to a dresser to change clothes. Now, after NL, whenever I do direct them to dressers, nothing ever shows up in the selection bin. So nowadays all my townies are stuck w/ their atrocious outfits. I really hope someone *hint hint* can mod it so that townies can change clothes again. Cuz it really is driving me nuts.

And I was beginning to think I imagined it, that townies made selectable (either by testingcheats or merola's mind control mirror) could change outfits with the dressers/clothing tool. Phew.

SciBirg, I wonder if you have Inge's teleporters, and try moving the invisble dormie into a (rental) house, make her over and make her into a townie(?) again, then teleport her back to the dorm to have her re-claim her room, that it would fix her invisibility? Remember to backup first though.

[skandelouslala]

I've had sims where the head turned into a blue polygon...if the plastic surgery object doesn't fix it I use Simpe's Sim surgery plugin. You need to have a stored copy of the sim prior the disfiguration to do this(a saved neighborhood or a Sims2pack/package file). Annnd you may get a crimplipped sim from the surgery, although this is fixable if you know how

I had the blue head thing happen to..it was fix when he transitioned to the next age stage. I suppose if you have an adult or elder sim that this happened to it would be even more annoying though and you wouldn 't want to wait.

[radiophonic]

lmao, I have one that's invisible as well. I dropped some students into a dorm and there it was: a book, floating in mid air like someone was reading it. Someone was, the sim next to it was looking at them. I used Insiminator's 'the deleter' and removed them from the dorm. I haven't seen them since (no pun intended). Next time, I'll use the selector and see what my problem is, maybe it'll help fix yours.

[buddha pest]

lmao, I have one that's invisible as well. I dropped some students into a dorm and there it was: a book, floating in mid air like someone was reading it. Someone was, the sim next to it was looking at them.

That's what happened to me last time I tried to change a townie's clothes. It didn't happen until the next time he showed up on a lot. Apparantly he came home with someone after work because suddenly I saw a grilled cheese sandwich eating itself in mid-air whilst people had a conversation with it.

Glad people pointed out NL messed with this. I just thought I couldn't remember how to do it right.

[SciBirg]

I was able to fix it following some of the suggestions in this thread. I moved her in to the frat house. She was able to change clothes but still only a black silhouette. Sent her to her to an exam. No change. She Visited campus on her own accord. Now she was visible outside (barely) but still a black shape inside the house. I had one of her frat mates go downtown and when he came back again she was suddenly visible.

I just hope it lasts...