Are twins ever identical?
AuKestrel:
I started wondering this because I just had my first occurrence of 2 sets of twins in a family, one right after the other. The first set was a boy and a girl, but the second set consisted of two girls. However, they are not visually identical. (Certainly none of them is identical personality wise.) It's not that I want to have identical twins; I was just wondering if it was theoretically possible or if all twins are fraternal by default. (Obviously the game allows "clones" to happen with identical siblings in subsequent births if you don't scramble the dice or have a patch installed, but I have always thought that was a problem/bug, er, excuse me, "feature" rather than intentional on EAMaxis' part.)
Count Four:
From what I understand it will never happen naturally in play, as the game will always use the next combination on the list for the second twin born, so twins will always be fraternal.
You could create a pair of identical twins with BodyShop and CAS, and a little bit of editing with SimPE if you want their interests to be similar. They'd start as toddlers, though.
BastDawn:
If you need identical twins for a story, use identical parents. Use a sim created in Body Shop to make your male and female parent, and all of their children will be identical. :P You can use the plastic surgery machine from University to give one of them a different appearance so it's less obvious what you're doing.
Quinctia:
It's theoretically possible; a luck of the draw thing. Definitely more likely if the parents have the same genetics, or there are dominant ones (like black hair/brown eyes/similar skintones). Also helps if certain features are dominant, say one parents' nose, and the other's lips. I'm sure if you've done any amount of rolling the pacifier with two parents in CAS you've had two kids come up that are almost identical.
I've had at least two sets of twins with identical facial features. Due to my sheer amount of geneticized custom content, I haven't had any that were completely identical, though. I had a pair come very very close to identical, with similar (but different) shades of skin, brown hair, 2 slightly different pairs of green eyes, and the same face. They even had zodiac signs that were next to each other and therefore theoretically possible for twins who managed to be born on two different, consecutive days to have.
Oh...and I had a set of triplets. One boy, two girls. The girls were identical save for their hair color. With all the skintones I have, this was nothing short of amazing.
See?
Closer shots: Gloria and Gwen
Zazazu:
Quinctia, that image is hypnotic.
I've had a couple of occurrences of identical offspring (one with extremely different parents....kids were butt-ugly, but identical). They weren't twins, but really the odds are about the same. My closest to identical were two of a set of triplets. I really thought they were identical until they hit their teen stage and I noticed a very slight difference in the mouth.
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