Alien baby born with brown eyes?
Tarlia:
Actually, the chance of the baby getting alien eyes depends on what eye genetics the sim parent has.
Excluding any custom eyes, the eye genetics work like this: Light blue, grey and green are equally recessive. Brown, dark blue and alien eyes are equally dominant. Every sim has two eye genes, one expressed and one dormant. Dominant means that if a sim has one dominant and one recessive gene, the dominant will always be the expressed one. If both eye genes are equally recessive or dominant, it's a 50/50 chance of which gets expressed. So if your sim has both recessive eye genes, its alien spawn will always have alien eyes. If the sim parent has one or two dominant eye genes, there's a chance the alien spawn will get them as their expressed gene.
Custom eyes, unless properly edited, will always be super-dominant over any ingame eyes, including alien eyes.
Alien skin works like a (non-geneticised) custom skin and is always dominant over ingame skins, but if the sim parent has a dominant custom skin as well, the alien baby can end up with their skin as well.
Liz:
Quote from: vecki on 2008 November 25, 11:53:55
Yup, I had my first alien baby with blue eyes born the last time I visited Strangetown. I then promptly deleted the neighbourhood because I've never really been a fan.
A totally lulzworthy and not at all disproportionate response. "Hm, I don't like this babby's eyes. NUKE HIS CITY!"
I wholeheartedly approve. :D
IgnorantBliss:
Quote from: Tarlia on 2008 November 25, 13:10:35
Actually, the chance of the baby getting alien eyes depends on what eye genetics the sim parent has.
Custom eyes, unless properly edited, will always be super-dominant over any ingame eyes, including alien eyes.
Alien skin works like a (non-geneticised) custom skin and is always dominant over ingame skins, but if the sim parent has a dominant custom skin as well, the alien baby can end up with their skin as well.
I did some fairly thorough testing on this a while ago, and it turned out the alien skin is not always dominant (this is why a sim who was born out of an alien pregnancy and has green skin has only a 25% chance of giving birth to a green baby himself/herself with each pregnancy). The alien skin seems to be dominant if one parent (for example, the pollination technician) has both his skintone genes as alien skin. However, when a sim has only one gene for alien skin and another for regular Maxis skin, the alien skin doesn't dominate anymore, and it's possible for the sim to pass on the alien gene without it expressing on the offspring. A sim can carry the gene for alien skin as a recessive streak.
PA:
Quote from: Tarlia on 2008 November 25, 13:10:35
Custom eyes, unless properly edited, will always be super-dominant over any ingame eyes, including alien eyes.
That drives me insane. Enough that I went on a geneticizing and rebinning spree on almost all of the improperly binned hair and super dominant skintons and eyes I had.
I realized a bit late that I had Sims in-game who already had some of this content. Ooops. It hasn't done anything strange yet with the eyes, though I had a few incidents with skintones that I managed to fix with SimPE and a subsequent geneticizing spree to make them super dominant again so they don't get into the game unless I allow it (as with my Genetics Doom House). The hair on the other hand was a totally different story...I have several Star Wars KotOR-based Sims, and one has a really funky hairdo that I didn't want inflicted on every daughter she had for all time. But she was already in the game, carrying super dominant genes for custom hair that's now binned brown. I could not have picked funnier results if I tried--a friend had done the same thing and her Sims were born bald, or ended up with the Maxis fried hair, but no, my game had to be cute and give her a daughter with lekku. I have a perfect screenshot of dad holding up his girl just after she grew into a toddler, a stunned ZOMG expression on his face, blatant evidence of his wife cheating on him with a Twi'lek happily gurgling in his hands.
I believe I've fixed mom Sim so she's carrying genes for brown hair now so that doesn't happen again, but I just had to let that one stand. That moment in Simming just edged out Sephiroth showing up at a wedding in a Santa suit as the funniest thing I've seen in my game.
Anyhow, good to know about the dominance of the alien skin, too, so I won't be caught off guard when the kiddies breed and some end up with human skin.
Tarlia:
Quote from: IgnorantBliss on 2008 November 25, 15:04:00
I did some fairly thorough testing on this a while ago, and it turned out the alien skin is not always dominant (this is why a sim who was born out of an alien pregnancy and has green skin has only a 25% chance of giving birth to a green baby himself/herself with each pregnancy). The alien skin seems to be dominant if one parent (for example, the pollination technician) has both his skintone genes as alien skin. However, when a sim has only one gene for alien skin and another for regular Maxis skin, the alien skin doesn't dominate anymore, and it's possible for the sim to pass on the alien gene without it expressing on the offspring. A sim can carry the gene for alien skin as a recessive streak.
Huh! I didn't know that. That's interesting. Now that I think of it, I remember seeing someone's sim family tree where a kid got the alien skin tone appearently passed down from a grandparent. Makes sense, too, since skintones work differently from hair and eyes. I wonder if the same is true for custom skins, or if this only applies to the alien skin?
Quote from: Princess Artemis on 2008 November 25, 20:05:20
That moment in Simming just edged out Sephiroth showing up at a wedding in a Santa suit as the funniest thing I've seen in my game.
Haha. Do you have a picture?
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