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]

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)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thank you. That is so helpful. How did the correct genetics looks for Ophelia? Did she have a recessive red (Willow is supposedly red, according to the genetics in the game, but that's probably wrong)? Is that information listed anywhere, I wonder? I don't want you to go to any trouble to get that from your game, if I can look it up.

I don't agree with the inclusion of recessive alien eyes here (since dominant traits don't hang on as recessives in the game or in real life), so I'll leave those out and make it green too, or make them recessive light blue to tie into his Uncle Vidcund (who he obviously takes after somewhat).

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Wait... according to madame_ugly, blond hair is 3 (or 00000003-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, which I take to be the same thing), but this Johnny has 4 listed, which she has listed as meaning red.

In your merged neighbourhood, does Johnny show with red hair?

[aledstrange.livejournal.com]

yes 003 is blond, oo4 is red (001 for black, 002 for brown, 005 for white)

Sometimes I think the DNA of most of those 'parents' is just random, dunno, some seam very off looking at their children.
Ophelia does not have any recessive red hair genes that I know of, tho her mothers does as you say, tho I have no idea where that hair comes from either, because for what I remember none of her parents had red hair and actually Olive shows brown hair in simpe, not black as she should be .... It just a huge mess!!

I made a huge list with all of this sim dnas (alive and death ones) .. I must have it somewhere, I just need time to look it up coz' I can't find it nowhere now *blushes*

[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)