Fixed the black scalp bug

Yay!

And yay hottness!

*tilts head*

I don't know. I've always found Dunstan more cute than hot. I think I'll have to see him with more facial hair before I can make that judgment.

Good thing the bug is fixed (although I kind of doubt anyone else noticed )

Yeah, I'm with the big percentage of the people who didn't notice.

As for Dunstan's hotness, I think I'll have to wait for Yware to (re)appear before making up my mind.

Speaking of Yware, do you have an approximate date of when he'll come up, or have you not made up your mind yet?

Why was it only affecting certain sims though?

I still don't know that. The only two I know of are Paul and Dunstan. And as far as I know they have nothing in common: different skintones, different genetic hair color...

Hmm actually I am not 100% sure about what Dunstan has as hair color in his character file since I never put body hair on him using the body hair overlay... That's usually the only time I would ever modify that value, since it has no bearing on the game. (Hair color DNA is stored separately.) He may have a custom hair GUID as his hair color in his character file, like his father, since Alred's Jeanette hair is not binned. I don't know what Kiv originally had.

Not that any of that makes any sense to you anyway, since you don't have SimPE. But the important thing is: It's fixed.

Err, maruutsu, I forgot to answer your question. I think the earliest we will see Yware is March-April, due to difficulty in traveling during the winter. It's not a good time to be sailing far from the coasts, which I would assume Godwine and Magnus would want to do, being pretenders to the English throne and all.

Ooh, is that a clue? I can't wait to see how you modify history.

I was thinking Yware should send word of his coming to England, but if he's accompanying pretenders to the throne that's impossible. Too bad for Alred, I think that could cheer him up a little bit

Yware seems like the flamboyant sort who would prefer to surprise everyone with his arrival. "Behold! It's me!"

And then everyone who was too young to remember him, or just didn't recognize him would be all "...who?"

EDIT: You probably already know this, but you might want to switch Dunstan's hair gene to just default black before the baby is born. If not, it might cause some problems if the baby turns out to be a girl, since she'll get Brit's brown hair (or possibly whatever Brit has for recessive) which wouldn't make any sense since Dunstan's parents both have two black hair genes apiece.

I think the family resemblance will be enough to identify him. By virtue of not being there, he has become something of a legend.

Dunstan's DNA is fine. It's the hair color in the character file that I'm not sure about. The only thing I've found that is affected by that in-game is the body hair overlay mod. It attempts to guess the correct body hair color to use by looking in the character file, not the DNA.

Also, you don't know for sure he (or his siblings) don't have a recessive brown gene. Matilda's father had brown hair. In fact Dunstan does have 2x black but that's not necessarily the case for his siblings.

Edit: Anyway, I think brown hair and black hair are equally dominant in the Sims, aren't they? I was fully prepared for the possibility of their baby having brown hair.

True. Now I'm curious as to which siblings have the recessive brown gene

As for the dominance, I'm not entirely sure. From my own experience, children of a parent with two black genes and another with two brown genes have always had black hair, but that might not be the case. I was speaking more in terms of realism than in terms of the game. If I remember correctly, in real life, black hair trumps all other hair genes, and then brown is second. I could be wrong, though.

It has to be more complicated than that, since my dad (who was blond as a boy) now has totally black hair. (Well, except for the fact that it's now graying.) My mom was also blonde young and now has brown hair. And my brother and I both went from blond to mediocre brownish something as adults. Ethnically we're all a grab-bag of northern European genes.

I'm actually making Leof and his (English) kids and some of his close relatives run along those lines: blond when young, darkening to something between brown and black as adults. You can see it happening with Haakon as we speak.

And after all, you can't be sure the parents had two black genes without doing genetic tests, can you? The fact that someone's parents both have black hair doesn't prove that the person inherited two black genes. Emmie ended up with auburn hair, which proves that Sigefrith must have given her something recessive instead of a black hair gene. But then again, it's probably best not to confuse real-life genetics with Sims genetics too much. According to the Sims genetics system, we're all as simple as peas.

Ah, I always forget about that. I know it happens, but it's never at the front of my mind unless I'm reminded. I guess that's what I get for being born into a family where pretty much every member has dark hair from birth to the day it goes gray.

Heheheh... a Sim genetic test is opening Sim PE I just figured since Alred and Matilda were both CAS sims (and I'm assuming you didn't have her father's sim from the very beginning) they were both homozygous in terms of genes, unless you tweaked Matilda later.

Yeah, Emmie must have gotten a recessive gene from Sigefrith. I have to wonder what Brit got, however. She's one of the older members of that generation. Was she born before you started using Sim PE? She might have Maud's brown gene and Sigefrith's male-only custom hair gene.

But from what I've personally seen of sim genetics, I'll be surprised if the baby has brown hair as opposed to black. Then again, I suppose that if black and brown are equal in dominance, then my ending up with a black-haired baby every time I bred a black-haired sim with a brown-haired sim is just as mathematically likely as any other possible sequence, so I don't know. We shall see

That can easily be tested with the pacifier. I shall go do that and tell you how it goes.

And Lothere could also have changed them all in SimPe afterwards

But my money is on Meggie and possibly the Old Man.

I also had blonde hair as a kid, and now it's almost black. So does my mum, except she went through a phase where she was a redhead (I believe it was blonde -> red -> brown -> black)!

Aaaand I'm back. Yep, brown = black in SimGenetics. Go figure.

I did retroactively change some genes according to what I retroactively determined for their parents. Matilda has a brown gene and black gene, despite being made in CAS, for instance. I may even have broken some Sims inheritance rules in an attempt to make more realistic genes, à la the Hingwar Family Magical Hair Color Changing Phenomenon. I mean, if Young Sigefrith was born blond and turned black-haired, do I give his kids blond genes or black genes?

Thanks for performing the experiment, maruutsu! Now we won't have to.

My sims have this now. I don’t know what the “Julia Dream” hair was, but I don’t reckon that I have it in my game. Argh!

Is it all your Sims or just certain skintones?

I had a similar bug to this recently, but only for people who were using one particular skin. It turns out it was due to the fact that I’d added baby hair to that skin for baby Lili and Liadan. Adult men must share the same scalp as babies on that skin, because they had baby hair underneath their real hair.

Otherwise maybe you have some other hair that is overwriting the scalp?

I hope you don’t have too much trouble finding it.

A corrupt skintone can also cause it, as I found out for myself a couple months ago. :/

The black scalp can be caused by opening a skintone in SimPE, drawing hair on the scalp, then saving; Body Shop compresses identical textures into one .png when it makes package files, so if your scalp is the same floodfill for all ages and both genders, drawing on one scalp draws on them all.

Good to know, Hat! This is exactly what I did with the baby hair skin, which explains what went wrong there.

Thanks, guys! I haven’t figured out what the correlation is yet, but it does *seem* to happen only with certain skins. (It has been happening for a while, but I’ve been too lazy to find the culprit.) It does also seem to only be happening to males. I’ll have to do some investigating.