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Any genetics at all?
butterfly86xx
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I've heard complaints that there aren't genetics like there are in Sims 2... for example passing on dominant traits, blending of skin tones...
Are there any characteristics passed on when a Sim has a child? Like eye colour and hair colour or traits??
Are there any characteristics passed on when a Sim has a child? Like eye colour and hair colour or traits??
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Eye colours are totally random (two brown eyed parents can have blue eyed kids).
Hair colours are sometimes random (black and red haired parents can have blonde kids).
Skin tones are "locked" (the kid will have either the mother's or the father's skin tone, never at all anything in between).
I've just installed and tested the latest patch (v1.6) and the genetics are still screwed up.
All my kids have various facial features from each parent Eg chin shape, cheek height etc.
They've always had an eye or hair colour two. As for skin onte if you pay attention they take the slider position (eg darkness) and actualy palette colour separately. So a dark skinned black guy and a light skinned pinky white girl can have a light skinned black baby.
Also people saying about two black heads having a blonde or two browns eyes having blue eyed. That IS genetics.
Blonde and blue eyes are recessive genes.
So if both patterns chromosomes had black hair - blonde hair
brown eye - blue eye
They parents would have black hair, brown eyes. If however they both happened to pass on the blonde hair gene and the blue eye gene the kid would get
blonde - blonde
blue - blue
allowing the recessive gene to show through.
I bet they do.
did they block out brown eye?
LOL if so.
but so far thats the only problem i have had with the genetics ( i agree with the twins thing, i want identical twins or having twins isnt any fun)
The Prima Guide covers genetics, and mentions that there will be a blend of characteristics from each parent (as Dalex covered above) but that there is also a small chance that a seemingly "random" characteristic (like your blue eyes, grace2006) will show up.
This is true in real life as well.
Two brown eyed parents can have a blue eyed kid, if they both carry an allele for blue eyes. I doubt its that complicated in Sims 3, seeing as you can have a sim with pink hair and purple eyes, and idk how that'd work in real genetics, but I think that's where the 'random' colors and features come from
I do with I could dye my sims hair without it magically becoming genetic though :P
I like s3, but I wish that some of the things from s2 could have been carried over. Such as the genetic system, especially how the parent's dna blends.
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yeah... for some reason "**********" was blocked. I don't understand. I was just...lolwut? And the twin with blue eyes is gorgeous, but I just can't work out why she has that eye colour. Both twins ended up with mom's hair colour, though.
My problem with it comes from the fact that there isn't a single normal sim born in my game (genetic wise) since patch 1.3. I've been doing experiments with purposely built sims, like straight hair colours (no roots, highlights and such), just a single colour, same with eyes and skintones and after breeding them the kids still come out wrong.
For example, I had two parents, created by me, with brown eyes both and of two kids, one had yellow eyes and the next one had purple eyes. With hair, it's not all that messed up in my game, but in about a quarter of the experiments with one all blonde and one all brown-haired sim (again both created by me), the kid comes out with black hair. When it comes to skintones, it's terrible, the colours won't mix no matter what, regardless of CAS slider position or anything else, it's either one colour or the other, no variation whatsoever.
And this hasn't been always the case, as I previously said, in my game, the skintones did mix&blend until the 1.3 patch, it was right after it that genetics went bad.
But I think they should show the Chromosomes of Sims in it's biography. I would like to see two boxes in the biography part of the scrabbook, a smaller one off to the upper left where you can choose whether your sims run on the xy, xx system or wa, wg, ww system. xy system means that the male sims have xy chromosomes & the female sims have xx chromosomes; wa, wg, & ww system means that the male sims have wa or wg chromosomes (where wg males are slightly more masculine than wa males) & the femle sims have ww chromosomes. I also think that the biography should also show the sim's name so that players have an easier time telling which they are typing up or editing a biography for.
My avatar has a black wife in my sims game who children are what I would consider a blend of the two. For example their son favores burgers just like his father, both children have a light brown skin tone; which I consider to be a mixture of the interracial marriage I have.
Both have blonde hair, male has red eyes, female has purple. First 2 girls came out with their mom's blond hair and purple eyes. I then had twin girls.... One came out with RED hair and purple eyes, the other came out with BLACK hair and red eyes. Explain that one. LOL
My sim Pamela is the spitting image of her mother
Genetics are fine from what I've seen.
Not to be rude or anything
I think it is only annoying (funny actually) if the newest poster is replying to the OP and is expecting an answer, or is *informing* the OP of new information w/o checking the origination date of the thread starter. Obviously, this updated information would not have been available at the time the post was originated.
Other than that, yeah, it can be good discussion, and interesting to see what people previously had to say.
If you want the skintones to blend, both of the sims have to have the same basic skin (in CAS, there are various base skintones you start out with like pale, pink, brown, blue, green, etc.), but different shades like a light brown skin tone mixing with a dark brown. That's the only way mixed skintones can work.
More often than not I think genetics work TOO well. If it's a girl, they look so identical to the mom, and opposite for a boy.