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!!

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Wait I just noticed the eyes are Lyran green, yes? So that part is okay... it just must be the skintones and hair colors where the game had a problem reading (which is all you changed, right? I'm slow on the uptake sometimes, lol!)

Yep I think it's just a matter of the game not being able to read the code because it was missing a number or something and should be an easy fix. *fingers crossed*

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Did you try taking the kid to the mirror and doing a makeover? Maybe the kid just needs reset (I've had issues in game where a sim reset to a default face template and I had to take them to the mirror to get the correct face back--I've also had hair go missing leaving sims with gaping skull holes, also fixed with a trip to the mirror).

I'm willing to double check the code list and make sure the typo's not on my end (I still have my test family in my pleasantview bin--that could also give me a go with the new simPE).

The way I understand it, you shouldn't have to fiddle with the skintone range. It's kind of like the setting on the toaster, telling how dark/light to make the toast. So if the range is, say, 1 then you'll only get the lightest skin. If the range is 3 then you can get 1,2,or3 (but never 4). Does that make sense?

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about messing your sims up.

Worst case scenario, you could ask someone to check the regular Strangetown sims with SimPe and just give you the original settings for Ripp, Johnny and Ophelia. The best part of playing with the Maxis Sims is that there's always a way to restore things to the way they were (unless your computer blows up :P).

I have a merged neighborhood that was created with a Strangetown template with the character's DNA fixed (from MATY), so let me check Johnny's data with SimPe:

Johnny,
Dominant Genes:
Eye: 51c4a750-c9f4-4cfe-801c-898efc360cb7
Facial Features: brow,mouth,eyes,ears,
Hair: 00000004-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Skintone: 6baf064a-85ad-4e37-8d81-a987e9f8da46
Skintone Range: 00000001-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Recesive Genes:
Eye: 12d4f3e1-fdbe-4fe7-ace3-46dd9ff52b51
Facial Features: Empty
Hair: 00000003-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Skintone: 00000001-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Skintone Range: 6baf064a-85ad-4e37-8d81-a987e9f8da46

I hope this works ^^

(If you need Ripp or Ophelia's data, let me know)