I edit born in-game sims quite a bit. Based on what I feel that sim should be. Mainly clothing and a few body/facial stuff. Generally try to keep the character as who he/she/they is. The random stuff can get really weird sometimes.
Like wearing a swimsuit or underwear as "Everyday" clothing. heh heh! I think not. :P
Like many others have said, I don't usually touch the genetics, as in the things you can't even change without cheats, except when a couple has too many children that look too much alike, but with my playstyle, that doesn't happen often. There's also the issue that one of my mods (although I don't know which one, or why) causes some born-in-game or randomly generated sims to look like this with their mouths closed:
Sometimes I keep it, but usually not. When I change the hair colour (either because I want unnatural hair colours that children can't be born with, or to simulate a phase, etc.), I often imply that it's dyed by leaving the eyebrow and/or facial hair in the original colour. I may sometimes add or remove body hair, well, the latter most of the time, because ever since we got body hair, every other random female sim tends to spawn with it.
Oh, and of course I always create their outfits, or use the premade styles when I'm not feeling creative. You can't trust the game with properly clothing sims, especially if you're using cc, because you'll end up with something like this:
Sul Sul! I was just curious as to how much you guys edit your born in game sims. Do you give them complete makeovers such as body and facial features, just give them new hair etc, or not touch them other than their clothes?
It depends on how I'm feeling I guess. 🤔
Sometimes I will edit them but I think normally I'll leave them as the God of Sims intended them to be. Who am I to mess with the Masterplan? 😁
But sometimes I'll edit if I really want to but normally I let them go through life with the looks they were given.
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Mostly..
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Mostly just hairstyles and clothing, although I will occasionally change hair colour, but generally to a colour I know is genetically possible for the sim.
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I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Oh, I forgot I did edit Patchy's child. Since he didn't inherit his skin tone, eye or hair color from his mother I changed them to what I thought suited a scarecrow's child. Gave him straw colored hair, a skin tone that resembled a wood tone, and I would have given him orange eyes but that wasn't available for toddlers so he has green for now.
If I am successful in having children with the flower bunny (oooh I wonder if the science baby will help with that) I will edit the skin tone to one that looks more bluish or reddish or yellowish than the usual human range and name the baby after a similar colored flower or plant.
I always go into CAS and age them up through young adult and look at how they turn out. In the past I almost always had to play around with their chins because it seemed like every one of them when they got to teen would have this weirdly tiny, pointed chin. Like 80-90% of them had this. Lately though it seems that the genetics have gotten a tweak and now I rarely have to edit facial features. Clothes are another story. Even if the game gives them decent looking outfits I give them head to toe makeovers.
I change only eyebrows, hair styles and clothing. Usually I don't make major changes, but only then if there is something that bothers me, like for example if the eyes are too small then I edit the eyes to make them little bit bigger.
I love the genetics in The Sims 4, and now it seems that there has been some improvements made so that the genetics work better and there are rarely cases where I feel like I need to make bigger changes to my born-in-game sims.
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I’m trying to remember how many born- in -games I’ve had over the past 7 years…
3.
I had 2 boys, which I didn’t tweak at all, bar hair and clothing. In both cases the game auto- generated CC skin-details, so I kinda ran with that.
I also have a girl. When I aged her up from a baby object into a wee toddler, she had this CC birthmark on her face. I was absolutely delighted! I’d rather not use CC at all you see, this is why I‘m looking forward to getting all these new skin details in the upcoming patch. I love moles and freckles and acne and birthmarks and scars and…friggin’ hair. We need some ear and nose hair, just for grandad (and dear nana too).
Anyways, I made this little girl’s eyes slightly bigger and rotated her ears a bit, only to enhance what was already there, NOT to make her look like a completely different person. I don’t like altering sims’ genetics in ways that make them look unrecognizable. I will however almost always replace hair and attire. I even have this kid’s mom knit cute onesies for her. The one with the happy frog on it is the best. 🐸
She’s still a toddler, and one of my favorite sims, mainly because I gave her the angelic trait which really helps if yer a sensitive guy like meself.
Oh wait, I suddenly recall another child…also a girl. So 4 in total.
Gosh… my sims have been busier than I thought. Rogues. 😆
Recently a sim toddler who was born in game ended up with the palest blonde hair, yet her dad has black hair, and her mum medium brown. Both parents were created in CAS. I was tempted to switch her to a darker style but decided to leave her as she is.
Only hairstyle, make up, eyebrows (if they look ridiculous) and clothes, but I never touch their face or body. I don't like doing plastic surgery on my Sims. I just love them for whatever genetic features they have.
I usually try to keep their "style" even for the clothes that they get when they age up. If a Sim has eyeglasses even on one outfit category when aging up I'm going to add them also on other outfits.
I like randomness on Sims. I care more about their personality than their looks.
Only hairstyle, make up, eyebrows (if they look ridiculous) and clothes, but I never touch their face or body. I don't like doing plastic surgery on my Sims. I just love them for whatever genetic features they have.
I usually try to keep their "style" even for the clothes that they get when they age up. If a Sim has eyeglasses even on one outfit category when aging up I'm going to add them also on other outfits.
I like randomness on Sims. I care more about their personality than their looks.
Easier to quote than type all the same
My love, my love, my fearless love, I will not say goodbye..
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
Another example of a slight edit: I aged up my child to teenager and she had very thick (vanilla) eyelashes that clipped to the skin above her eyes. So I dragged her eyes a little bit outwards to make the eyelashes clip less.
I'll adjust their noses, since the game NEVER adjusts them to match their parents'; they always get bigger noses. So I adjust them to match their parents.
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I only edit hair style and clothes (and sometimes eyebrows but I try to stick with a similar shape to what they started with, just a bit thinner or thicker). The one exception in my massive save was one of Knox Greenburg’s kids who had a *very* pointy chin.
So far, I usually change clothing, nails, accessories, hair styles, makeup, once in a great while hair color, and sometimes things I can change without cheats.. But since I play with aging off most of the time, many of the sims I play have been made in CAS. I have noticed that in game sims usually look ok as a children, sometimes they look a bit strange when they get to teen years. I like being able to pick traits and control skills, likes and dislikes. I even wish we could pick the lifestyles we want our sims to have ( without cheats ).
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I will often go in and change townies hair, makeup nails and accessories …… if the townies look too bad, I may get rid of them all together.
I don't touch their genetics at all. I only decide hairstyle, eyebrows/facial hair, clothes, and such. I might rarely change their haircolour as well but that's not "going against genetics". I should know since there was a time when I colored my own hair blue.
It depends on the thing that went wrong, but mostly changing the hair, bonestructure (if it's too thin) and clothes depending on the age. A senior at 60 should be looking different from a senior at 80 years or older, for example first grey then white, and add more wrinkles. Make-up will changed aswell, but normally my sims don't wear any make-up. But I choose carefully the future mom/dad in advance, and change them if needed, so I don't have to do this on the ingame-born sim. Other sims, on the other hand, get deleted very fast, if somethings doesn't fit in.
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I edit born in-game sims quite a bit. Based on what I feel that sim should be. Mainly clothing and a few body/facial stuff. Generally try to keep the character as who he/she/they is. The random stuff can get really weird sometimes.
Like wearing a swimsuit or underwear as "Everyday" clothing. heh heh! I think not. :P
Sometimes I keep it, but usually not. When I change the hair colour (either because I want unnatural hair colours that children can't be born with, or to simulate a phase, etc.), I often imply that it's dyed by leaving the eyebrow and/or facial hair in the original colour. I may sometimes add or remove body hair, well, the latter most of the time, because ever since we got body hair, every other random female sim tends to spawn with it.
Oh, and of course I always create their outfits, or use the premade styles when I'm not feeling creative. You can't trust the game with properly clothing sims, especially if you're using cc, because you'll end up with something like this:
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
It depends on how I'm feeling I guess. 🤔
Sometimes I will edit them but I think normally I'll leave them as the God of Sims intended them to be. Who am I to mess with the Masterplan? 😁
But sometimes I'll edit if I really want to but normally I let them go through life with the looks they were given.
Every Sim is beautiful in her and his own way...
Mostly..
🤣
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
If I am successful in having children with the flower bunny (oooh I wonder if the science baby will help with that) I will edit the skin tone to one that looks more bluish or reddish or yellowish than the usual human range and name the baby after a similar colored flower or plant.
Thats actually kinda vibe minus the clipping
maybe add some head accessory though hair or otherwise
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I love the genetics in The Sims 4, and now it seems that there has been some improvements made so that the genetics work better and there are rarely cases where I feel like I need to make bigger changes to my born-in-game sims.
3.
I had 2 boys, which I didn’t tweak at all, bar hair and clothing. In both cases the game auto- generated CC skin-details, so I kinda ran with that.
I also have a girl. When I aged her up from a baby object into a wee toddler, she had this CC birthmark on her face. I was absolutely delighted! I’d rather not use CC at all you see, this is why I‘m looking forward to getting all these new skin details in the upcoming patch. I love moles and freckles and acne and birthmarks and scars and…friggin’ hair. We need some ear and nose hair, just for grandad (and dear nana too).
Anyways, I made this little girl’s eyes slightly bigger and rotated her ears a bit, only to enhance what was already there, NOT to make her look like a completely different person. I don’t like altering sims’ genetics in ways that make them look unrecognizable. I will however almost always replace hair and attire. I even have this kid’s mom knit cute onesies for her. The one with the happy frog on it is the best. 🐸
She’s still a toddler, and one of my favorite sims, mainly because I gave her the angelic trait which really helps if yer a sensitive guy like meself.
Oh wait, I suddenly recall another child…also a girl. So 4 in total.
Gosh… my sims have been busier than I thought. Rogues. 😆
I usually try to keep their "style" even for the clothes that they get when they age up. If a Sim has eyeglasses even on one outfit category when aging up I'm going to add them also on other outfits.
I like randomness on Sims. I care more about their personality than their looks.
Easier to quote than type all the same
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
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I will often go in and change townies hair, makeup nails and accessories …… if the townies look too bad, I may get rid of them all together.
Buttttt usually I just give them new hairstyles and clothes.