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Dark Gaia
1st Mar 2012, 4:20 AM
Hi everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster here.

I'm having a small problem with the family tree of my Legacy family in The Sims 3. I've got all expansions except Pets installed, plus Outdoor Living and High End Loft Stuff.

Here's the lowdown:
I began my legacy in Sunset Valley. The founder, Valley Bouffant, married Blair Wainright and they had two children, Lionel and Claire. At this point, I installed Late Night and Generations, so I exported the parents and children to Bridgeport.
In Bridgeport, I played up until Lionel Bouffant married a CAS Sim and had a child of his own. I noticed that Bridgeport was lacking space for a huge legacy, so I exported the entire lineage back to Sunset Valley, using Twallan's Porter mod to keep the relationships intact.
Porter detected that there was a duplicate of Blair Bouffant (Blair Wainright) in the new town, so I had it delete the latter, and then everything seemed to be fine. The relationships were intact, and the 3rd generation is progressing smoothly.
However, the latest child recently became a toddler, and I noticed that not long after this occured, the Family Tree button is broken for all Sims in the family and will not display the tree.
I used Twallan's MasterController to view the family tree through the "Family Tree" function to see what the issue was, and I noticed that there are blank Sims that do not exist that have appeared within it. The 2nd generation children (Lionel and Claire) have a sibling that has no name or icon, while the 3rd generation child (Lionel's son) has a blank sibling as well. Clicking on the blank Sims causes the Family Tree to crash. I tried using MasterController to "remove sibling" from the tree, but it can't actually detect the extra Sims.
Is my Family Tree borked beyond repair? Any help would be appreciated. As for CC, I'm only using Twallan's StoryProgression, Porter, MasterController and Overwatch. All have been update to my latest patch level. I'm using nothing that affects Family Trees.

tl;dr
1. Family Tree works fine until export to new town.
2. Porter deletes clone of Sim already present in new town.
3. 3rd gen child turns into toddler and family tree button stops working.
4. Blank Sims with no name or icon that shouldn't exist appear in tree.

ellacharmed
2nd Mar 2012, 3:17 PM
Sims 3 - Invisible Sims and/or User Interface Issues
If you are experiencing issues with Missing Sim(s) and / or User Interface Issues see the Game Help:UI and Sim Issues Guide,
If this doesn't resolve the issue, please post in the [Common] Missing Sims and/or User Interface (http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=411005) Sticky.


Used DebugEnabler to "Fix Invisible Sims"? Or it is not that? Their UI thumbnails and Sims themselves are fine?

Just the FamilyTree in Relationship panel has blanks? Perhaps you have this issue : http://nraas.wikispaces.com/message/view/StoryProgression+Issues/51108916#51177782

Dark Gaia
3rd Mar 2012, 2:56 AM
Hi, it was only the Family Tree that had blank Sims, so I followed your link to the Nraas wikispace. Twallan said there that Overwatch can repair the damage, so then I used Overwatch to "Repair Geneaology" and that seemed to fix it! Now I feel really stupid, seeing as it had a really simply fix, but thanks for your help nonetheless.

ellacharmed
3rd Mar 2012, 6:01 AM
You're welcome! And Happy Simming! :)