Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Sony Playstation 4 Which language are you playing the game in?English How often does the bug occur?Every time (100%) What is your current game version number?Version 1.67 What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed?Parenthood, Seasons, Cottage Living, Desert Luxe Kit, City Living and the free packs. Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves?By having a sim in the tech guru career, clicking play game on the computer and pressing live stream. The live streaming function only works on the Game Console from City Living and not computers. What happens when the bug occurs?The sim resets. What do you expect to see?I expect to see the sim live streaming. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?On console - never used. Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system?Neutral/Not Sure
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in?English How often does the bug occur?Every time (100%) What is your current game version number?Version 1.93.146.1020 What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed?
Expansions: All but High School Years Game Packs: Journey to Batuu, Realm of Magic, Vampires, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat
Free stuff: Holiday Celebration pack & Grim's Ghoulish Guitar Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves?By having a sim in the tech guru career, clicking play game on the computer and pressing live stream. The live streaming function only works on the Game Console from City Living and not computers. What happens when the bug occurs?The sim resets. What do you expect to see?I expect to see the sim live streaming. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?No. Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system?Not Sure, I usually go Start Up Entrepreneur rather than ESports.
I am experiencing this as well - my social media influencer is trying to stream games to gain followers, and the action will not que. Trying to que it resets my sim totally and generates an exception. I relaunched the game several times, there are no mods, and it happens regardless of computer or mood or anything.
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in?Svenska How often does the bug occur?Every time (100%) What is your current game version number?1.95.207.1030 What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed?Eco lifestyle, Get to work, Get famous, Cottage living, Island living, City living, Discover university, Seasons, Jungle adventure, Parenthood, Realm of magic, Spa day, Vampires, Outdoor retreat, Vintage glamour, Romantic garden, Laundry day, Desert luxe Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves?When the sim who is in the social media career tries to livestream a game on the computer What happens when the bug occurs?The sim is unable to livestream. Nothing happens. If the sim is doing something else it stops. What do you expect to see?I expect my sim to be able to livestream. This is a step in the career when you are working from home. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?Yes Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system?No
The root cause of the error is something that needs to be fixed on EA's end; there is a bit of a flaw in the logic of the Python code resulting in the Sim refusing to do the interaction/causing an exception.
For some background on the problem, the livestream interactions have a special tuning option which allows for the icon for the interaction in the queue to be specially overridden to the icon of the Sim's career. The problem with this is that the code assumes that the career that is referenced actually exists -- which is not the case, necessarily.
What happened in these cases is that the livestream interactions, which are base game, reference the High School Years teen streaming career. Because these interactions are base game but reference something not from the base game, errors can occur.
Example of the XML below spoiler number 1. Spoiler demonstrates the computer_Livestream_IncredibleSports interaction and how it references the career_Teen_StreamerSideHustle career in a place where it is not safe to do so.
On the Python side of things, it is clear this is sort of an oversight. The code defaults to showing the Sim doing the interaction (or one of them, if there are multiple to consider) if the Sim does not have the listed career, so it is clear that that is the intended behaviour. Up until now, it may simply not have been the case where this code was used in such a way that a career is referenced in a place where it's possible the career doesn't exist (which is to say, an interaction, for example, references a career from another pack).
The code, from interactions.util.tunable_icon can be seen below in spoiler 2.
class TunableCareerIconOverrideIconFactory(TunableFactory):
@staticmethod
def factory(resolver, participant_type, career_reference, balloon_target_override=None, **kwargs):
if resolver is None:
logger.callstack('Attempting to use a None resolver in an icon.', level=LEVEL_ERROR, owner='yecao')
return EMPTY_ICON_INFO_DATA
if balloon_target_override is not None:
return IconInfoData(obj_instance=balloon_target_override)
participant = resolver.get_participant(participant_type)
if participant is None or not participant.is_sim:
logger.callstack('Unable to retrieve participant for Career.', level=LEVEL_ERROR, owner='yecao')
return EMPTY_ICON_INFO_DATA
career_tracker = participant.career_tracker
if career_tracker is None:
logger.callstack('Unable to find a Career Tracker for the participant: {}', participant, level=LEVEL_ERROR, owner='yecao')
return EMPTY_ICON_INFO_DATA
for current_career in career_tracker.careers.values():
if current_career.guid64 == career_reference.guid64 and current_career.icon_override is not None:
localized_full_name = LocalizationHelperTuning.get_sim_full_name(participant)
return IconInfoData(icon_resource=current_career.icon_override, obj_name=localized_full_name)
icon_targets = resolver.get_participants(participant_type)
if icon_targets:
chosen_object = random.choice(icon_targets)
else:
chosen_object = None
return IconInfoData(obj_instance=chosen_object)
FACTORY_TYPE = factory
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super().__init__(participant_type=TunableEnumFlags(description='\n The Participant who owns the career.\n ', enum_type=ParticipantTypeSingle, default=ParticipantType.Actor), career_reference=TunablePackSafeReference(description='\n The Career to override the icon.\n ', manager=services.get_instance_manager(sims4.resources.Types.CAREER)), **kwargs)
An easy way to re-write the code to work as how it seems is intended could be as such, shown in the 3rd spoiler.
class TunableCareerIconOverrideIconFactory(TunableFactory):
@staticmethod
def factory(resolver, participant_type, career_reference, balloon_target_override=None, **kwargs):
if resolver is None:
logger.callstack('Attempting to use a None resolver in an icon.', level=LEVEL_ERROR, owner='yecao')
return EMPTY_ICON_INFO_DATA
if balloon_target_override is not None:
return IconInfoData(obj_instance=balloon_target_override)
participant = resolver.get_participant(participant_type)
if participant is None or not participant.is_sim:
logger.callstack('Unable to retrieve participant for Career.', level=LEVEL_ERROR, owner='yecao')
return EMPTY_ICON_INFO_DATA
career_tracker = participant.career_tracker
if career_tracker is None:
logger.callstack('Unable to find a Career Tracker for the participant: {}', participant, level=LEVEL_ERROR, owner='yecao')
return EMPTY_ICON_INFO_DATA
# here is the change -- test if the career reference exists first before testing against it
if career_reference is not None:
for current_career in career_tracker.careers.values():
if current_career.guid64 == career_reference.guid64 and current_career.icon_override is not None:
localized_full_name = LocalizationHelperTuning.get_sim_full_name(participant)
return IconInfoData(icon_resource=current_career.icon_override, obj_name=localized_full_name)
icon_targets = resolver.get_participants(participant_type)
if icon_targets:
chosen_object = random.choice(icon_targets)
else:
chosen_object = None
return IconInfoData(obj_instance=chosen_object)
FACTORY_TYPE = factory
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super().__init__(participant_type=TunableEnumFlags(description='\n The Participant who owns the career.\n ', enum_type=ParticipantTypeSingle, default=ParticipantType.Actor), career_reference=TunablePackSafeReference(description='\n The Career to override the icon.\n ', manager=services.get_instance_manager(sims4.resources.Types.CAREER)), **kwargs)
At the end of the day, it's ultimately up to the dev team to fix the Python code to allow for it to be pack-safe, since whether or not it was intended to be in the first place, it clearly is being used in such a way now.
Finally, an example of the exception, in case one has not been uploaded here, is as follows, behind the 4th spoiler:
[cjiang] Error invoking TunableCareerIconOverrideIconFactoryWrapper.factory (AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'guid64')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\areaserver.py", line 117, in wrapped
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\areaserver.py", line 113, in finally_wrap
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Core\sims4\utils.py", line 157, in wrapper
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Core\sims4\utils.py", line 175, in wrapper
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\areaserver.py", line 365, in c_api_client_connect
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\zone.py", line 595, in do_zone_spin_up
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\zone_spin_up_service.py", line 1593, in update
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\zone_spin_up_service.py", line 567, in on_enter
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\sims\sim_info_manager.py", line 777, in restore_sim_si_state
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\si_restore.py", line 90, in restore_sim_si_state
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\si_restore.py", line 56, in _run_startup_interactions
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\si_restore.py", line 118, in _load_staged_interactions
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\sims\sim.py", line 4198, in load_staged_interactions
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\si_state.py", line 1283, in load_staged_interactions
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\si_state.py", line 1358, in _load_and_push_interaction
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\sims\sim.py", line 3919, in push_super_affordance
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\aop.py", line 236, in test_and_execute
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\aop.py", line 224, in execute
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\aop.py", line 212, in execute_interaction
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\interaction_queue.py", line 1344, in append
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\base\super_interaction.py", line 4262, in on_added_to_queue
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\base\interaction.py", line 7191, in on_added_to_queue
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\sims\ui_manager.py", line 175, in add_queued_interaction
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\sims\ui_manager.py", line 635, in _add_interaction
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\base\interaction.py", line 4946, in get_icon_info
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\base\interaction.py", line 4977, in _get_icon
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Core\sims4\tuning\tunable.py", line 525, in __call__
File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\utils\tunable_icon.py", line 242, in factory
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'guid64'rtim=0
ClientInfo isn't here
Live Streaming as a Tech Guru should no longer reset your Sim
Fixed in Patch 1.96.365/1.71
If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.
Good Luck Crin
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