Expressed Appearance vs SimDNA...Technical Help Needed
IcemanSimmer:
JM...your last post had the answers I was looking for :) Thank you very much for taking the time to help me understand how the game interprets genetics.
To those of you reading this thread, please post your experiences with genetics in-game (especially involving CC). I, along with many others I'm sure, would like to know more so we don't inadvertantly walk straight into a disaster like I did with my two custom sims.
Lyra:
The easy answer to the CC skin thing is to never download Sims with photoskinned skin. I'd put a fair amount of money on most of the creators of such skin do not design their skins with breeding in mind, only to make their celebrity or whatever look like the person they're based off.
Photoskinned skins are the devil's work.
Sleepycat:
IcemanSimmer, you may find the files I uploaded handy
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,2966.msg244291.html#msg244291
I used to change recessive lines in SimPE to give my sims a chance at having kids with blond or red hair (most of my male sims have black hair), now I just use those hacked files. same for eye color.
as for custom skintones, I'd suggest checking out how they look on both males & females (toddlers-elders) in Bodyshop or CAS before ever using them on a sim in-game. If you like them then you can fix them so they fit in where you want them genetically instead of leaving them custom(dominant).
Lord Darcy:
I used to breed Sims only with default skintones/eyes, and used custom skin only for townies/NPCs that I don't ever plan to breed. Then, I realized that I would never take out Enayla's skintones anyway, so I just went ahead to breed Sims with them. I'm using geneticized version of her skintones and eyes, which can be found in Peasantry. I also geneticized a couple of other custom skintones that I can't part with.
I never download Photoskinned skintones. As I'm sick of Hollywood celebrities in real life, I have no desire to populate my Simhood with them.
IcemanSimmer:
Quote from: Sleepycat on 2008 January 14, 13:40:53
IcemanSimmer, you may find the files I uploaded handy
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,2966.msg244291.html#msg244291
During my research of this DNA issue, I downloaded your files but haven't used them as yet. Will try them out as soon as I finish this post :)
Quote from: Sleepycat on 2008 January 14, 13:40:53
I used to change recessive lines in SimPE to give my sims a chance at having kids with blond or red hair (most of my male sims have black hair), now I just use those hacked files. same for eye color.
Quote from: Sleepycat on 2007 July 01, 21:20:11
Normally if you pair up a black haired sim with a blond, their kids will all have black hair.
As you had read in my previous posts in this thread, its quite obvious the game has a bias towards darker colors. In your case, black haired coupled with blonde haired led to always black haired. In my case, brown + blonde always had brown hair. A couple of hours ago, I redid my Insim test 25 times. All 25 offsprings had brown hair and brown hairs. This is why, just like you, I asked if changing the recessive line would make any difference in influencing the outcome of the genes.
Quoting El Presidente in an earlier post to this thread:
"If a sim inherits two DIFFERENT dominant characteristics, one is randomly chosen."
Father has dominant brown, mother has dominant blonde, the offspring should have a 50/50 probabilty of being either brown or blonde. But this is clearly not what is happening in the game and what throughly confused me and one of the reasons I started this thread.
Quote from: Sleepycat on 2008 January 14, 13:40:53
as for custom skintones, I'd suggest checking out how they look on both males & females (toddlers-elders) in Bodyshop or CAS before ever using them on a sim in-game. If you like them then you can fix them so they fit in where you want them genetically instead of leaving them custom(dominant).
As I mentioned in my 1st post, this was the very first time I touched custom skins. Over the past 4 years of playing TS2, I only use maxis defaults. Next time I use CC skins, you can bet your life I will test the f**k out of it to make sure I don't ever experience this again :)
EDIT: I just ran 11 Insim pregnancy tests using SleepyCat's genetic hack. Of the 4 possible genetic combos, I saw brown/brown 3x, brown/blue 3x, blonde/brown 2x, blonde/blue 3x. Excellent hack!!!
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