Facial genetic strangeness
DrNerd:
Is there any reason for the game's genetic engine to stop meshing the facial structure genetics of both parents in the children? What I mean is, with all the kids I've had this generation (so far, 5 in the main houses, 8 outside of the main houses), the kids all seem to be facial clones of one parent or the other. They're not combining features from both parents; they're just younger versions of one. Hair, eye, and skin color genetics seem to be working as normal. It's not always the SAME parent, either. And it isn't First-Born Effect except in one case; the personalities of the kids are different (widely different, in some cases). The last birth, I randomized, and got facial-clone twins of their daddy. In my Uglacy in particular, I WANT a kid with some of the features of both parents, but I can't seem to make that happen in ANY household this generation, and I just want to know if there's some reason why this is happening.
Edit: I can post pictures of the problem if that would help.
More edit: I've checked in SimPE, and it's NOT a case of one parent's genetics being totally dominant. In my Uglacy, Mom has more dominant genetics than Dad, but all three kids are clones of Dad, despite randomization.
mildlydisguised:
No idea why. I'm assuming that you haven't added any hacks since this happened?
In CAS, if you make parents and generate kids, are their facial features blending?
KillerLlama:
*snicker* Maybe the game's revolting against you for deliberately making fugly sims. Just a thought.
Zazazu:
Do you have faceblend limits off? I'm wondering if what you are noticing is the game's default behavior of blending faces to whatever it decides is the nearest template equivalent.
DrNerd:
Quote from: mildlydisguised on 2009 December 04, 09:37:16
No idea why. I'm assuming that you haven't added any hacks since this happened?
In CAS, if you make parents and generate kids, are their facial features blending?
Nope, no new hacks aside from Wear Anything While Pregnant. And I'm only running up to Seasons, so AFAIK, there's no issues with using the Squinge version of that.
And in CAS, I'm getting feature blending, which is why I chose the spouses I did.
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 December 04, 16:11:20
Do you have faceblend limits off? I'm wondering if what you are noticing is the game's default behavior of blending faces to whatever it decides is the nearest template equivalent.
Don't have faceblend limits off. This is the first time I've had this problem. I finally did get a kid with a mix of his parents' features, it just took me forfuckingever.
Basically, I got three of these:
Except that Vex is blonde and Howie and Abel are black-haired. That face is 100% Brad the Hippie. Mom Tess has genes from the default PolliTech, Malcolm Landgraab IV, and Remington London the Pizza Guy, and I wanted a kid with some of those. Happily, that happened with youngest spawnlet Stevie:
Brad the Hippie's crazy baggy eyes, and Tess's Landgraab nose and Pizza Guy mouth and jaw. He also inherited her ten nice points, so I love him already.
Brad the Hippie is an Ottomas. They are Uglacy GOLD.
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