So far I haven't edited any children. All of them are au naturale.
I will try and match a teen's hairstyle to the one they had as a child, and occasionally change their eyebrows and ridiculous outfits
Also there is a bug where male teens voices are all femminine, so I change that as well...
That's about the extent of my CAS editing for born in game Sims though.
You guys must be lucky to get good-looking kids lol.
For me it's not a matter of how they look, I don't really care.
I like to see how the genetics engine works, and also I find it makes it easier to pick a favorite son or daughter I might like to continue a legacy with. I'll do what I can to help them out if their looks are "unfortunate" but I won't use push pull on them ever.
@JoAnne65 Yep. You can do testingcheats on - CAS.fulleditmode and delete the ugly kid and add in the one I'd made in CAS and change the family relationships.
Great, that's what I'm going to do then! Because genetics really weren't fair on my sim's daughter How do I change family relationships?
When you edit in CAS with the cheat it comes up just like regular CAS so you can edit relationships like you do at first when you're creating Sims, with that little button.
Thanks, awesome! Gonna give that girl a better look then ^.^ (which answers you OP question by the way, though I will use the parent's genetics).
Have fun, it's a life saver for me.
I just did what you said and it worked, here she is!
Ain't she cute? Thank you again
edit: haha, only now I see you changed your signature
(edit: she's 100% a genetic product of her parents; just not the one the game came up with originally)
I always take a sneak peek (by cheating) to have a look at how they will be as young adults. I only make changes if I have a big issue with the way they look, which doesn't happen often.
I don't usually edit my born in game sims. I like to see who's genetics pass on. I have been known to sometimes change hair color/eye color if they get some random one. I have also changed weight before and sometimes add freckles. I also sometimes have some very strange looking kids, but I've been fairly lucky that most of my sims have been fairly decent looking. Maybe not always beautiful but not deformed either.
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I usually do some editing to the facial features - I don't know why, but the kids always end up with a mix of their parents' least attractive features.
Don't get me started on the amount of editing needed for clothing and hair! XD
I pre-select my sim children.
It's a long and tedious process but I play in aging off so I don't have that many born in game kids, around 10 with the oldest currently being a child. I've not done it for most of them, only for couples with features that are not positioned the same (the culprit behind chinless offspring for many premade couples. NPCs on the other hand are generated with fairly similarly placed features).
A couple like ... the Pancakes is basically playing roulette. What I do is I save during the pregnancy, use the mccc so the baby gets born right away, age them up, check them up as teen, quit to menu. If I don't find them interesting enough I regenerate the babies (still with mccc), re-saves, check again. It's the more difficult version of pressing the pacifier in CAS.
Since pregnancies in my game last ages, and babies stay babies for even longer, it's easier than waiting for them to grow up. And it means no CAS editing later.
I'm never looking for pretty or perfect baby, I just want sims that actually look like sims with reasonably placed features, and are an interesting blend of their parents (no point in playing clones). I'm satisfied on the second or third roll usually.
If the babies are multiple, I just don't bother and accept my fate.
I have some aliens in my Sim's family tree, so even 2 generations later, my kids all end up with this real Children Of The Corn look to them. I've got no choice but to make kids in CAS to avoid that.
Depends on how badly they've been slapped by the ugly stick. The genetics in 4 seem to give a huge range. I end up with children with odd face configurations or with very Asian facial features from non-Asian parents. I like my kids to have their own look and personality but I'll shave down a crooked nose or square up a boy's jawline if he took too much after the mother.
While I like that not all sims look drop dead gorgeous, and I agree that part of the fun is to see how the kids turn out, sometimes the genetics create some... abnormalities lol So I often tweak them a little a bit just to make them look more human. I don't know but my game seems to create a lot of chinless sims.
Mine do too?? And it's weird cause obv the chinless-ness is not..genetic or intentionally genetic. @_@
...and the chinless problem. This happens to me so often. If they're born with no chins, I give them one.
I don't mess with offspring faces, hair color or eye color. I generally don't change bodies either, except maybe one or twice (the townie "pregnant" stomach). But for the most part, I like seeing how the genetics play out. I like playing mostly realistically and IRL "pretty" people don't always have "pretty" kids, and the reverse is true too. Generally I just roll with it.
I only use CAS fulleditmode for thin and odd shaped eyebrows and thin lips. That's all I ever really change, even when I'm modifying townies. Then in normal CAS I do hair makeup, all that jazz. The same rules apply for townies. I don't really care about the children to be honest, I just give them styled looks and edit them slightly.
I mostly edit due to weird features. I like vastly different facial structures when it comes to males and females, and occasionally I'll end up with a male with very little jaw and a pointed chin and I just can't do it.
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I do it sometimes to just make them all happy. Because its hard with you have multiple children plus the parents. I wouldn't do well in the real world in that case XD
I change their hairstyle, clothing and makeup only. Seeing how the genetics turn out is one of my favorite things about legacy play.
I love that my sims look different but you can see some similarity in features being passed on. Here is my generation 2 heiress, her husband and their 4 kids, the last two girls are twins.
Yeah agreed. I never really change anything except for hair & clothes. The sims from my legacy family definitely have an unmistakable similarity to them (even a few generations down). It's funny cause I feel like every now and then one of the kids will even resemble the founder a lot from a few gens up
Her I didn't edit at all for example, and I think she's adorable (she's also an adorable kid now)
Same with these twins here:
And she looks so much like her mom
(Actually, these sims are all from the same family, and you can sort of see it because the entire family has adorable similar-looking cheeks, just like their mom )
I will happily alter townies, but altering kids born through any of my played sims are strictly offlimits beyond the things anyone can do everyday - hairstyle, clothes etc.
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I will try and match a teen's hairstyle to the one they had as a child, and occasionally change their eyebrows and ridiculous outfits
Also there is a bug where male teens voices are all femminine, so I change that as well...
That's about the extent of my CAS editing for born in game Sims though.
For me it's not a matter of how they look, I don't really care.
I like to see how the genetics engine works, and also I find it makes it easier to pick a favorite son or daughter I might like to continue a legacy with. I'll do what I can to help them out if their looks are "unfortunate" but I won't use push pull on them ever.
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Ain't she cute? Thank you again
edit: haha, only now I see you changed your signature
(edit: she's 100% a genetic product of her parents; just not the one the game came up with originally)
eyebrows
eyes
nose
I regret I have had to but normally I don't need to change anything.
some times there's a glitch with skin tones.
Don't get me started on the amount of editing needed for clothing and hair! XD
It's a long and tedious process but I play in aging off so I don't have that many born in game kids, around 10 with the oldest currently being a child. I've not done it for most of them, only for couples with features that are not positioned the same (the culprit behind chinless offspring for many premade couples. NPCs on the other hand are generated with fairly similarly placed features).
A couple like ... the Pancakes is basically playing roulette. What I do is I save during the pregnancy, use the mccc so the baby gets born right away, age them up, check them up as teen, quit to menu. If I don't find them interesting enough I regenerate the babies (still with mccc), re-saves, check again. It's the more difficult version of pressing the pacifier in CAS.
Since pregnancies in my game last ages, and babies stay babies for even longer, it's easier than waiting for them to grow up. And it means no CAS editing later.
I'm never looking for pretty or perfect baby, I just want sims that actually look like sims with reasonably placed features, and are an interesting blend of their parents (no point in playing clones). I'm satisfied on the second or third roll usually.
If the babies are multiple, I just don't bother and accept my fate.
I have some aliens in my Sim's family tree, so even 2 generations later, my kids all end up with this real Children Of The Corn look to them. I've got no choice but to make kids in CAS to avoid that.
...and the chinless problem. This happens to me so often. If they're born with no chins, I give them one.
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Yeah agreed. I never really change anything except for hair & clothes. The sims from my legacy family definitely have an unmistakable similarity to them (even a few generations down). It's funny cause I feel like every now and then one of the kids will even resemble the founder a lot from a few gens up
Her I didn't edit at all for example, and I think she's adorable (she's also an adorable kid now)
Same with these twins here:
And she looks so much like her mom
(Actually, these sims are all from the same family, and you can sort of see it because the entire family has adorable similar-looking cheeks, just like their mom
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day's divinity....
The Ghost Song - Jim Morrison