SimPE: Sim genetic troubles

[strangetomato]

I went back into SimPE over my lunch break and saw that none of my changes to genetics had been saved, because I forgot to commit them. Now I feel really silly. So, I went ahead and made some changes, and now I have a new problem. I was following Madame's list of genetic codes, but somehow I've ended up with black hair from Johnny and Ophelia. And missing eyebrows.

Weird, isn't it? I'm not sure where I went wrong. Why would the eyebrows be missing?

I'll have to look at this again later this evening. I hope I just copied the wrong code somewhere. Black hair and the palest skin have the same code, so maybe something went wrong with Johnny's recessive skintone. I put it under skintone, not skintone range (what's does the second refer to anyway?), if that makes a difference. Now I'm worried that I should have used some other sims for my experimenting. I hope I haven't messed up anything that I can't fix.

If you have any insight, I'm all ears.

Comments

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

To me, that kid looks like a 000001 code all the way... 001 hair, 001 skin, and 001 eyes (brown). It's like he's a blank.

I've had the no eyebrow and the 001 "reset" happen when I mess around with Insim to make Servos look human. They will also always have 001 skin and eyes, and no eyebrows, although since hair color is a turn on, Maxis does give them a hair color. Everything else defaults to the 001.

Which, incidentally, is why the Grim Reaper and the Social Bunny's kids always have black hair, brown eyes, and 001 skin too. It's default "blank" genetics.

*is rambling again*

But yes, somewhere in SimPE the coding was messed up to where the game couldn't read it and so it chucked out those default blank genetics. It should be an easy enough fix; just go in and make sure there are enough 00's and whatnot in all the genetic strings and that they're in the right places. Is there any way you can take a printscreen of your SimPE where you changed the genetics and we can all look to see if we can find the problem?

I'm sorry this is happening to you. It's such a pain! Hopefully it can be fixed easily!!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

The eyes aren't brown, but that sounds right. I probably just did something wrong.

The one thing I can say is that the sims were empty for skintone, and only showed their colour code in the skintone range slot. I added the alien code to Johnny's dominant skintone slot and skintone 1 to his recessive slot. Was that the right thing to do?

I'll just go back and go over it with a fine tooth comb and see if I can fix it. If not, I'll be back to poat a screencap and beg for help.

Thanks for your input! It's very helpful.

[ikichi.livejournal.com]

I birthed a grimpreg last night and after 3 tries, none of the kids had brown eyes (alien, blue, green- I'm pretty sure I had set the alien mother to have green eyes as a recessive).

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I've never tried a Grim baby before. Do they just use one of the face templates for them?

[katsuko]

If I'm remembering right, in most cases (except Nervous :p) a Grimbaby is pretty much an opposite sex clone of the parent sim. I need to redownload InSim and test a bit (I love the Blender, I really do, but I still need my Grimpreg option, dammit!)

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Yep I think ikichi is right... the eyes on a Grim preg don't go to default brown (it's been so long since I had one, lol!) but the hair and skin are always 001/001 (from GRIM, that is... it can still mix with the parent sim and be different in the child.)

It's been my experience Grim always uses default face template 001 too. Which is why the kids are known for being so cute, since that's considered (by some, lol) to be the best looking Maxis template.

And I had read that Grim was a female in the game too. I don't think that's true. He stands up to pee. :P You know how he hangs out in the house after your last sim dies? Well, he'll use the toilet sometimes and yep... he stands. *giggle*

[ikichi.livejournal.com]

I dunno... I think it's a bit like the in-game pollinator and plantsim. I think the new one (Kat, Lola Curious' daughter) looks a bit different than the other two I had (different moms)- I think her face is rounder. I've heard that his kids are always cute, and so far that's been true for me, so I guess there is a specific face for him.