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

[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.