Inheritance of Genes
Jelenedra:
The problem with celebrities is that they are all too skinny and have these very pronounced cheekbones that look horrid in the game.
Motoki:
Quote from: Renatus on 2006 March 17, 16:27:04
Anyhow, it's hogwash that the sims have to look very similar to have kids that look good.
Not look similar, but just certain features have to be roughly similar. It's hard for me to explain. Like I tend to make my sims have smaller eyes (less Anime/dollish) and have their faces higher up so they don't have a huge forehead. If I breed them with a townie they might, say get the mom's low mouth and the dad's high nose and look freakish with this huge space between where the nose ends and the mouth starts. Does that make sense?
Of course they can look different, it's just that you don't want to go blending extremely different features.
Renatus:
Yeah, that makes sense.
It's hard for me to tell, sometimes, when someone says 'have to have similar features' if they mean that sims have to be kept consistant in style (Realism vs cartoon) or if they mean they all have to look very similar, period. I have run into people who did sincerely mean the latter... but then, those sorts were usually the people who got really annoyed whenever they had a sim that looked like anything other than 'generic pretty white person'.
maxon:
Quote from: Motoki on 2006 March 17, 18:59:39
Not look similar, but just certain features have to be roughly similar. It's hard for me to explain. Like I tend to make my sims have smaller eyes (less Anime/dollish) and have their faces higher up so they don't have a huge forehead. If I breed them with a townie they might, say get the mom's low mouth and the dad's high nose and look freakish with this huge space between where the nose ends and the mouth starts. Does that make sense?
Of course they can look different, it's just that you don't want to go blending extremely different features.
I know what you mean - the Maxis default face templates are too cartoony/anime for my taste too. I got AllenABQ's face templates (s/he posts on here doesn't s/he?) but, they don't work for default townies in a new neighbourhood. I like them though - they make for more normal faces to start with and I think they get used for newly generated townies (so works with deleteallcharacters - though I might be wrong about that). I read an interesting site when I got them, I think AllenABQ said he based the templates on ideas from that site.
http://www.sagesims.com/tutorial_anime.php
Regina:
Quote from: IgnorantBliss on 2006 March 17, 05:16:31
Since those are custom eyes, whether they are green or blue has nothing to do with the dominance. The game doesn't "know" what color they are. Generally all custom eyes are equally dominant, and if you have two custom eye genes, they both have a 50/50 chance of expressing. But I think there are ways of making custom eyes recessive, too, so that might bring some complications to it.
Yes, you can set dominancy in custom eyes. My daughter has made some eye colors and set their genetics accordingly. I threw out all my custom eyes because of the dominancy issue a long time ago but went back to using some after she made these. You can find them at www.springhole.net/bogsims if you're interested.
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