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

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry. I'm currently playing with SimPe for my prosperity neighborhood and it takes no time to check their DNA.

Ophelia appears with blond hair, s4 skin and green eyes as both dominant and recesive genes (and skintone range). According to that file I had about the dead Maxis characters, Ophelia has little in common with her parents: Willow has red hair, s4 skin and brown eyes, while Creon has black hair, s3 skin and light blue eyes :P.

Ripp has dominant blue eyes, brown hair and s1 skin (and the skintone range is 2). And also has recesive blond hair, grey eyes and s2 skin (with 1 as his skintone range).

Yeah, that's something that confused me when I was getting this DATA from SimPe. Johnny does show up with blond hair, though.

Although, now that I remember... when I restored my Strangetown, I also gave Buck the brown hair as dominant gene (because it made sense to me, don't ask :P) and he still showed up as a blond. And his kids still inheritted the blond genes.

For example, Lyla Broke has recesive blond and grey eyes, both from Buck. And Chip has the dominant dark blue eyes and recesive blond hair from his dad.

For more info about the Strangetown characters odd DNA issues:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,1423.0.html

And this link has actually a fix for Strangetown. YOu download that file and place it in your N002 folder. I've just discovered it :P

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7086.0.html

Hope this helps ^^

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Although that fix only works if you install it before you play the Strangetown neighborhood for the very first time!

(But it's a good link to have bookmarked in case you ever want to re-start Strangetown)