Maxis agrees with Laurenke
ZephyrZodiac:
I'd just love to know what reasoning made them choose the darkest skin colour as default, when one of the two medium tones would have made more sense!
baratron:
Well, I don't know anything about the game's coding - it's just a theory I have, based on the anecdotal evidence that anyone who's tried to have these Strangetown sims produce babies has obtained a baby with skintone 4. I don't know for certain that the game is choosing a "default" rather than picking one at random - could be that all the people who've obtained a light or medium-skinned baby haven't been surprised, so haven't posted about it anywhere. I'd be interested to see if any of the people who do know about the code could find whatever it is in there that chooses a skintone if the DNA is missing.
SimsHost:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2005 August 03, 06:12:20
... a simple case of mendelian genetics...
This must be a creative new use of the word "simple" with which I was previously unfamiliar. ;D
Just in case someone is attempting compile statistics here:
My father: bright blue eyes, medium brown hair, all his life, to age 85.
My mother: hazel eyes, medium brown hair.
Four kids, all born blonde and blue
1. Female: Eyes faded to pale blue. Hair changed to dark brown.
2. Male: Kept bright blue eyes. Hair changed to medium brown.
3. Male: Eyes changed to light brown around age 3. Hair changed to light brown. (That would be me.)
4. Female: Eyes changed to dark brown around age 3. Hair changed to dark brown around age 10.
My son's mother is Swedish--bright blue eyes and medium blonde hair. Born with his mom's eyes and hair, which only now (at age 16) are tending toward matching mine.
On the notion that all babies are born with blue eyes and brown hair: That's probably mostly true of Anglo-Saxon descent; however I can attest from personal experience that it's not true of people from just about anywhere in the world outside the UK, Scandinavia, and Germany.
ZephyrZodiac:
You could probably include Belgium, Holland, parts of Northern France, Northern Italy, parts of Russia (which got it's name from a Viing tribe!), Poland ............
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: baratron on 2005 August 08, 13:39:12
Only 4 of the Maxis-made family members have complete DNA. Nervous Subject's DNA isn't right considering he is supposed to be Olive Specter's son, but this is probably because Olive is lacking the "Skin tone passed on" options, and he got both his lines 268435462 (dtString): and 6 (dtString): from his father.
Except Nervous doesn't have a father listed. If his "father" is supposed to be Grimmy (who actually has uninitialized variables and is considered by the game to be a female, making this kinda weird), this would still make Grimmy an "unlinked" sim and result in self-pollination. Which would, obviously, explain why Nervous is male....except that frankly, Nervous has no resemblance to Olive at all. To make matters more confusing, Strangetown itself contains *TWO* Nervous Subject files, one of which is referenced in some memories instead of the "real" Nervous. My guess is that Nervous is simply fabricated in CAS with no actual genetic relation to Olive at all.Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 August 08, 13:48:19
I'd just love to know what reasoning made them choose the darkest skin colour as default, when one of the two medium tones would have made more sense!
Quote from: baratron on 2005 August 08, 14:12:05
Well, I don't know anything about the game's coding - it's just a theory I have, based on the anecdotal evidence that anyone who's tried to have these Strangetown sims produce babies has obtained a baby with skintone 4. I don't know for certain that the game is choosing a "default" rather than picking one at random - could be that all the people who've obtained a light or medium-skinned baby haven't been surprised, so haven't posted about it anywhere. I'd be interested to see if any of the people who do know about the code could find whatever it is in there that chooses a skintone if the DNA is missing.
That's probably true: You wouldn't be terribly surprised if you randomly got a light or medium skinned baby, given that Curious relatives run the range from S1 to S3 at least. S4 is very strikingly different, though.
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