Genetic blunders

Submitted by Van on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 23:33.

Er... about what percentage of readers actually notice inheritance that makes absolutely no sense in terms of either real life or in-game genetics? Purely hypothetical, of course... *resumes smacking self with desk lamp*

General Discussion

It's ok, Van. I did a test

Submitted by PenelopetheFox on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 03:18.

It's ok, Van. I did a test baby the other day for Alexei's sister and her husband. The baby was a girl with black hair and blond eyebrows. So yeah.

Is this one of those "too

Submitted by Lothere on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 04:47.

Is this one of those "too late to do anything about it" situations? The character has already appeared? If it really bothers you, you can always try to find a way to write it into the story. She dyed her hair, or her parentage is another Cubby-like "secret everyone knows and no one tells"?

I don't think I would notice it, unless it was truly bizarre. Like Stein and Sophie having a black-skinned, brown-eyed child or something. I'm kind of used to non-realistic Sims genetics by now, and don't really pay attention to that in stories.

A lot of my early sons-of-Scots had the black hair, blond eyebrow thing due to custom CC on the father. Apparently the hair was cloned from blond or something, but painted black.

Ah.... perhaps I should

Submitted by Van on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 06:52.

Ah.... perhaps I should explain. Back in the day, custom eyes never bothered me genetics-wise, but then one day they suddenly did, so I went through my Downloads folder and assigned them all genetic values. However, I do have too many sims to really go through all of them and make sure that the recessives and dominants make sense, so I only made a point to fix up the important ones.

Anyway, so yesterday, I made a semi-important woman have a baby with a not-important-but-could-potentially-be-somewhat-important-at-some-point-then-again-maybe-not man. The mother is either homozygous for violet eyes or has a violet dominant and a gray recessive, I can't remember. The father has blue eyes and hazel recessives, which is totally weird. Their baby got the hazel eyes. Ordinarily I would have left the lot and tried again until I got one with blue eyes, but it was the first baby boy I've had in like ten recent births and I've been worried that my game has somehow become glitched in that regard, so I figured I'd better keep him.

Fortunately, the kid isn't due to be born until the end of the "year", so I could change his eyes with SIM PE before he makes an appearance, but if I do that for one Sim, then there's really no excuse for not doing it for all of them. I'm just wondering whether or not it's worth the trouble.

Umm... I would guess you are

Submitted by Lothere on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 07:04.

Umm... I would guess you are the only person who will notice, Van! Especially since we don't know what the parents' actual genes are -- only their expressed eye color. Who knows what's lurking in there?

Well, you know what I would

Submitted by PenelopetheFox on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 07:32.

Well, you know what I would do in this situation:

Contact lenses!

I never really understood

Submitted by maruutsu on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 08:01.

I never really understood the logic behind contact lenses. Doesn't it make more sense to change eye color via SimPe?

And IDK Van, but Violet-eyed Mother + Blue-eyed Father = Hazel-eyed Son makes perfect sense to me. Isn't hazel supposed to be an ambiguous color anyway?

If what worries you are the genes of your Sims, you could just modify them in SimPe every time they're going to reproduce. That way you don't have to go and edit them all one by one, just as you need them.

As a Mac user, I can't have

Submitted by PenelopetheFox on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 09:46.

As a Mac user, I can't have SimPe so the contacts are essential. Also, for my particular story, they are necessary anyway. I have characters who wear contacts to disguise their eyes and a character whose eye color actually changes from one minute to the next.

Heh, I think I might be of a mind that there is no such thing as useless custom content.

You remind me that I've been

Submitted by Lothere on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 09:58.

You remind me that I've been meaning to make a character with different-colored eyes. I went to school with a guy with one blue eye and one Malcolm-like golden-brown eye, and I thought it was gorgeous. I wonder how common that is.

Do they actually have any

Submitted by Van on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 10:32.

Do they actually have any realistic heterochromia eye sets? The only one I've ever seen was Maxis-match

Yeah, what I might do is go with Maruutsu's suggestion and only change the genes if there's going to be any reproduction. I'll maybe change this baby's eyes when he makes his appearance. For the record, it's a greeny-brown sort of hazel, and not a blue-gray sort of hazel. It's unfortunate, as I could have gone with a blue-gray sort of hazel

I think I saw a single-eye

Submitted by Lothere on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 10:35.

I think I saw a single-eye contact using one of the Barcelonista eye sets that I have as my default replacements. So I figured I could pop it on someone with default eyes. I haven't really investigated since I sorta kinda forgot I have been meaning to do this.

I downloaded some single eye

Submitted by PenelopetheFox on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 14:59.

I downloaded some single eye contacts from GoS a while back and they seem to be wider than the other eye. I don't know if that's typical of the single eye contacts?

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