The problem of ugly kids was pretty much solved the day I bought Sims 4 and got rid of the pudding-faces. All my kids are cute, whether genetic or adopted.
I might do a little tweaking if they have crazy eyes, weirdly shaped lips or they have a weird body shape but I don't like to change their looks completely.
In my current household I had a couple who didn't look bad individually but their kids came out hideous and two had some serious facial distortions going on. Those two kids had tiny heads and no chins, and one of them had incredibly distorted lips. They had 3 kids total and all 3 of them had very saggy chests, no waists, and pot bellies. While one parent had a big chin and the other had a small one, neither parent had these particular issues with tiny heads and saggy chests and pot bellies. I fixed those issues as best I could without making them not look like "them" as for the most part I don't change anything, but the kids from this couple needed major help.
If they turn into hideous teens, I usually do some minor touch ups. Like change the mouth or nose or eyes, but I don’t mess with like the face shape, hair or body type.
I definitely fix mine in CAS. I don't remember ever getting a kid that I didn't touch in CAS. Sims 4 genetics are terrible If you grow the premade kids up, they get to look totally weird as well *Shiver*
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It depends on how bad it is when they age up. I mostly do little tweaks and make sure they're balanced out. So they don't end up with a giant forehead or something? Like others have posted I find females who take after their fathers the most tend to be the ugliest. Most of the time however genetics haven't been so terrible.
I genuinely cannot play with hideous sims so I change them. One of my favourite sims was absoloutely hideous as a child, so I fixed her, and she turned out looking incredible afterwards.
I do the next best thing for them when a sim turns out not as pretty/handsome as I hoped. I still do not cheat to make them look better, but rather I do routine things to make them decent.
For girls: Usually I either put on make-up or choose a hairstyle that will draw more attention to the hair than the face
For boys: When they grow up usually it's their chin that makes them look a bit off. Adding facial hair most of the time solves in making them look better.
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I tend to style all of my sims with hair, make up, clothing and other things that enhance their features as much as possible. It's ok for some of my sims to be geeky or to have physical quirks. If they are really and truly ugly, I will probably give them plastic surgery. Usually, I only do that with flattening out stomachs, but I would do it for the face if they were really strange-looking.
I used to think these 2 were ugly when they aged up, they were pretty children. I just gave them nice hair and make up and they look good now.
I think it is the chins (the brunette has it worse) the game seems to chip away at my Sims' chins generation by generation I am convinced their children will have no chin at all. BTW, her parents have normal chins so I am not sure why she doesn't have one. It's a weird thing that has been going on my game since City Living, townies also have the chin issue.
The blonde has weird lips that neither parents have, I'd say she is the prettiest of the two though.
This post makes me sound so vain, but the random chin thing annoys me so much
I don't mind unattractive Sims in my game at all. I love the diversity. But I do sometimes get the "receding chin" issue that just looks deformed and the neck looks extra long and it's all awkward. So I'll do a small adjustment to the bone structure in that area but leave everything else alone. I try to keep any tweaks I do minimal because I don't want to mess up the genetics.
Has anyones Sim children ever grow up to be kinda… ugly? Do you ever fix that or just deal with it?
They do and sometimes I fix them to look more average and not super pretty. It's more or less, fashion choices Sims have I tend to change rather than looks. Other times I let them be or make them even uglier and think of the worst fashio choices possible for them. Why delete them or change them all just because they are ugly if all the Sims are perfect and pretty it diminishes the meaning of true beauty. I use custom traits like hideous and creepy (by I think by kawaiistacie) and purposely make them ugly too
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This thread reminds me of a bad mix of premades that I stumbled upon in my game a while back. The poor girl was the daughter of Miko Ojo and one of the Landgraabs I believe.
Usually when sims come out with this bad of a genetic mix I go into cas and play with genetics until I get something that looks a little more reasonable and proportionate. Otherwise your townies will end up with freaky genetics later on
I feel these "squashed" and tiny faces (like the one above) are very common as well as completely chinless ones.
But, as someone already mentioned, when daughters inherit their father's chin, they don't get a feminine version of it - no, they get their dad's masculine version. For instance, Caleb Vatore and Don Lothario are two guys with pronounced chins which look good on them, but not their female offspring.
Anyway, genetics in TS4 sure could use an overhaul, and I hope some time will be invested into it at some point. Since, well, having kids is one of the most fundamental features.
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I never used to - but then I realized that these are my sims, I have to look at their faces all the time and find partners for them and everything - so I better at least appreciate the way they look.
Though I usually know what two sims are going to make pretty babies so I don't need to adjust them often anymore.
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I never had the chin issue, and most of the time my sims does not look that bad, but sometimes I mess with the sliders a little bit, pretend it's plastic surgery and blame it on the sim's insecurities :D
This thread reminds me of a bad mix of premades that I stumbled upon in my game a while back. The poor girl was the daughter of Miko Ojo and one of the Landgraabs I believe.
Usually when sims come out with this bad of a genetic mix I go into cas and play with genetics until I get something that looks a little more reasonable and proportionate. Otherwise your townies will end up with freaky genetics later on
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They look like they were reassembled by someone who wasn't familiar with human anatomy.
Like also when the children completely lack features of the parents.
For girls: Usually I either put on make-up or choose a hairstyle that will draw more attention to the hair than the face
For boys: When they grow up usually it's their chin that makes them look a bit off. Adding facial hair most of the time solves in making them look better.
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I think it is the chins (the brunette has it worse) the game seems to chip away at my Sims' chins generation by generation
The blonde has weird lips that neither parents have, I'd say she is the prettiest of the two though.
This post makes me sound so vain, but the random chin thing annoys me so much
They do and sometimes I fix them to look more average and not super pretty. It's more or less, fashion choices Sims have I tend to change rather than looks. Other times I let them be or make them even uglier and think of the worst fashio choices possible for them. Why delete them or change them all just because they are ugly if all the Sims are perfect and pretty it diminishes the meaning of true beauty. I use custom traits like hideous and creepy (by I think by kawaiistacie) and purposely make them ugly too
Usually when sims come out with this bad of a genetic mix I go into cas and play with genetics until I get something that looks a little more reasonable and proportionate. Otherwise your townies will end up with freaky genetics later on
But, as someone already mentioned, when daughters inherit their father's chin, they don't get a feminine version of it - no, they get their dad's masculine version. For instance, Caleb Vatore and Don Lothario are two guys with pronounced chins which look good on them, but not their female offspring.
Anyway, genetics in TS4 sure could use an overhaul, and I hope some time will be invested into it at some point. Since, well, having kids is one of the most fundamental features.
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Though I usually know what two sims are going to make pretty babies so I don't need to adjust them often anymore.
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