in sims 3. when a 'object' turns purple it means one thing, it wasn't able to access the model file.
And not only in the Sims 3, in many other games too. It wasn't that type of purple. 🙂
And Island Paradise is the glitchiest mess of them all. 😅 Tried it once. Performed all the fixes including removing certain families and houseboats, still na-da and I never went back to it.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. Won't be trying the sims again unless I get an older system with Windows 7 on it so I can run it as if it were "back in the day."