strangetomato | Good Genes III

I've been following the Good Genes III contest over at GoS, and, though I'm one of the lurkiest of lurkers over there, I've decided to enter it. It was way too much fun to pass up. Genetic experiments are always fun, and anything with Maxis sim genetics is right up my alley. I love all the interesting results that have been posted so far, and I'm especially loving all the less than ideal Maxis premades that people are using. You have your usual suspects for what most people consider pretty (lots of Dons, Brandys, and Ajays), but also some very surprising choices, like Consort Capp. Some very cool results, too!

Surprising nobody, I've selected three of my obvious favourites from the Maxis sims, who I also happen to think possess some fine genetic material, when mixed well. Did I get lucky with the blend?

Marlene looks like a Picasso! :D I also found it surprising to see just how Johnny-like Ripp and Marlene's kid was. Markus has Ripp's eye's and mouth, but everything else seems pure Johnny. Imogen ends up with a nice balance of genetics from all three, though favouring Ophelia's features, which is fine by me. And she has Ripp's eyes. Can't go wrong with those!

I also took this as an opportunity to play with my defaults, using the more realistic Maxis-match skins and eyes by Summerdream Sims (and edits of the same eyes by Nilou). I really love this set, but it's too big of a switch to use in my story, so it's nice to be able to try them out. They're very beautiful.

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Thanks. It's a fun thread to browse. I'm sure you'll like some of the more interesting results on there. I saw some LOL-worthy outtakes somewhere... *goes to check*

It was here, at Ferret's journal. Some CRAZY looking sims.

I did this a couple of nights ago when it was way too late to be awake (damn you, late evening espresso), so I didn't take many pics while playing. I just got what I needed for the contest and got out.

I've always been curious about that cheat, too. So you've tried it? It seems like something you'd be able to do a lot with. Maybe try it in NoCheat?

I tried that cheat a long time ago (using parent sims with extreme features--but not as extreme as Sy) and honestly I didn't see much difference between spawn created with the cheat on and with the cheat off. BUT, I could have been doing it wrong or my sampling was too small or. . .(and this was my conclusion) the cheat just doesn't do much.

I think the point of the cheat is more to eliminate freaks then grow them. I noticed folks at GOS bringing it up when discussing the breedability of their shared sims (meaning they use it to encourage attractive spawn).

Speaking of attractive spawn CC makes the sim, hmm? I'd love to see all the entries stripped down to no/bare minimum cc (so no crazy layers of makeup, like mouth corners and such). Scrape off all the excess and really see what those sims look like.

It's set by default to keep things more palatable, though, right? Why would people warn of it with downloads? I've never used it, so I would even think to type it in. (It's not like I expect you to know the answer. this just strikes me as funny.)

That's always been my beef with cc skin, and still is. This Neena skin is probably the farthest I'd go into the world of smooth and softened (though thankfully not too shiny) cc skin. It doesn't completely erase the natural line of the mouth and such. I still prefer my more slightly edited defaults, because you can still see all those details, and notice more clearly the differences in the genetics. (Plus I actually like the head wrinkles.)

I don't mind the mouth corners and eyebags and all that. The added texture is interesting (I often add more wrinkles and things), as long as it doesn't completely change the look.

And yeah, it's no coincidence that I chose this contest as the time to test out this cc I've been eyeing. People have a lot of opinions about the more Maxis-match of the Maxis-match stuff. It's less distracting this way. And it's pretty.

They weren't warning about it with downloads, they were discussing the "breedability" of the offered sims and the faceblend thing came up (in a "I never take it off" kind of way). So they were kind of guaranteeing their shared sims would throw pretty kids.

I found it amusing, too. Especially since the sims in question were all very smooth faced (meaning no sharp cheeksbones, etc) and they had tons of CC (so you'd really only get what was pictured if you left all the cc on).

While I'm kind of bad mouthing cc, I will say you can still get some great looking sims when you strip off all the cc. I have one in my VDSL right now who (while he looks nothing like his preview now that he's without all the cc extras--I even wonder if his creator would recognize him!) is still very awesome. It's fun to get all the "pretties" and hose the cc off and see what they really look like (a lot of them are just boring in the vein of face template 1).

Well, I don't know if keeping that setting on guarantees pretty kids, but breeding only variations on face one and face two certainly will. There's a lot of that going on in this contest, but enough interesting material to make it interesting. Some brave souls have used Malcolm and Consort, but nobody has ventured into Chester or Gunnar territory yet.

I like the image of you hosing all that pretty cc off. I imagine the sims enetering your game through a car wash type of thing to blast all that cc off.

Yeah, the few folks who were brave enough to use the lumpier offerings got lovely offspring (even after they went though the Madame CC Wash!).

I have my eye on Chester when I go over to Strangetown for the Sly Snootles version of my GOS GG home game (they've had three total, so one for each base hood--Sly so needs to join Strangetown).

The big flaw with these contests is you get too many children. Three per round pretty much guarantees you'll get a clone of the "pretty" sim (I noticed that with the one I already did).

For the next one I do, I'm thinking it'll be Hardcore. Only one spawn per breed. You have to work with what you got.

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