Custom skins and townie generation
Metalkatt:
Quote from: seelindarun on 2006 October 14, 21:12:33
Unfortunately, this could result in the peculiar effect that when I breed light (normal-hued) sims with peculiar ones, their children might be almost anywhere in the Maxis range. I'm not clever enough to figure out any other geneticising scheme where the peculiar skins could be made "recessive", if they were blended in with the normal shades.
What about setting a .00x range? Hypothetically, it should make them hyper-recessive, not giantly so.
Jelenedra:
Generally, when I geneticized my "strange" skintones, I gave them a value of less than 0, like .05 or .01. That makes them recessive to skintones that are .1, so unless you have skintones inbetween .05 and .1 then the game will always favor the .1 skintone.
jrd:
Sounds like you are confusing the skin values and eye/hair values.
Skintones work slightly different and are not dominant, but rather a spectrum.
Since:
.90 - S4
.60 - S3
.30 - S2
.10 - S1
But this does not mean that S4 is 9 times as dominant S1, rather that a child with S1 and S4 parents will end up with ~.50, and thus will be either S3 or S2, with S3 being more likely a bit.
If your custom skintone is .05 and you breed with an S3 (.60) the child will be ~.33, or most likely an S2. But due to the slight random factor he may also be another skintone (although very unlikely!).
Custom .05 and S1 will have about equal chance of being S1 or the custom skintone.
Jelenedra:
Oh, well. Nuts. =p
SpaceDoll:
I've started geneticizing my Enayla pixie skins. I started with four default replacements, then added the spectrum of "odd" colors at either end, focusing on depth of color, rather than hue, but still trying to keep the colors in families. I hope this eliminates two "normal" sims having strangely colored babies. I threw the Glory skin, which is about the same as S3, but with leaves all over, in the middle for a sort of pseudo-recessive Pixie gene. My goal was to have "normal" families occasionally exibit Pixie tendencies.
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