Changing eyecolor?

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Insanity Prelude:
Okay, so I recently downloaded a gorgeous set of eyecolors. Problem is, a good chunk of my neighborhood uses older, less awesome custom eyecolors, and they'll be passing those on to their offspring instead of the nice ones. How do you change a Sim's eye color, or at least the genetics? (I don't know my way around simPE very well. Figured I'd ask before I broke something.)
I know I could just use contacts, but I apparently like making things more difficult for myself :D


Edit: While I'm at it- I know SimPE Simsurgery has issues. Is there another way to clone/export a Sim?

Invisigoth:
I am sure that someone more awesome than me knows of a way to actually change the eyes of a sim, so maybe you should wait for someone else to come along, but I CAN tell you how to change it's genetic value so that you can haev an easier time of breeding it out over time. You open the package in SimPe and click on Texture Overlay XML then you click on the name that shows up under resource list and look in the plugin view area on the bottom (picture!). You should see something taht says genetic (dtSingle). Change that value from 1 (dominant) to 4 (almost never see it because it's so recessive). You'll almost never get a 3 or 4 eye from breeding (unless both parents have a 3 or 4, obviously). So if you want to breed out the old eyes you could make them all 4s and then make sure that they only mate with sims with eyes with a 1 or 2 genetic value. 2 is just recessive, but not to the extremes that 3 or 4 are. 0 is what un-geneticized CC comes with and it will always be dominant.

When you use Sim Surgery to clone a sim in SimPE and put that sim into body shop you must make a clone of the clone and delete the first clone. The second clone will be safe to use in game.

witch:
There are tutorials on how to change sim eyes and make it genetic. I've done it in the past.

Insanity Prelude:
Thanks, I'll google the tutorials. (I did know how to change the dominance values, at least. Because alien Sims should have alien eyes, damnit.)

As for Sim Surgery... I tried that yesterday and Bodyshop wouldn't load at all afterward. The progress-loading-bar-thing would get a quarter full and then just quiet crash to desktop. It started working again after I deleted the Sim Surgery clones- maybe I had too many of them, or something? I'm using the newest version...

Madame Mim:
Open the eye file with SimPE and copy down the number (best to copy and paste into a notepad file) the family line under the xml. Open the neighbourhood and select the sim. Use the more options to get to said Sims DNA. Change one or both of the eye lines to the previously copied data.

This will only work for the genetics of it and will not change the Sims eye colour.

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