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Re: Red Alien skin?

@gertie47 I see what you mean now. My alien sees the same "Miscellaneous" skin color options that yours does:

Yet his daughter, who is half human has the normal options:

So it does appear this is distinctive to aliens. Sorry, I have not dealt a ton with aliens and with skin tone changes. So, in the case of your sim from the gallery it's very interesting that she has the alien eyes, human skin tones, and has the alien skin palette come up when trying to edit the skin, and since the skin is already red/human color, it looks like the editor doesn't know what to do with it. Can you share the name of the household and player who posted it? I'm curious to look at her in my game also. I will also ask some friends about this and see if they have additional info/possibilities.

Edit:
I found this post discussing if you can have an alien with human skin. The last post in it is a person who says they were able to do this by mixing genetics in CAS using aliens they found in the gallery with human skin and alien eyes. This still does not explain how the original players got the mix, but I wonder if you mess with genetics using them if you can get to a place where the skin becomes editable? I don't know, but I'm rather curious now: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Questions/Human-skin-with-Alien-eyes/td-p/9344211

5 Replies

gertie47
Seasoned Veteran
1 year ago
@SheriGR gallery IDs for simmers able to create red aliens are Robofred151 & Yukikiku
SheriGR
Hero
1 year ago
@gertie47 Thank you. I don't see this one in your pic... do you know the name of the household she was in?
SheriGR
Hero
1 year ago
@gertie47 I did download a household from Yukikiku that has two red aliens in it. I'm guessing they may be using a mod since it does not seem to carry a CC tag. Anyway, when I open their skin color options, I see only the alien skin colors also...

However, I am able to change the skin color to one of those colors just fine:

Is this different behavior than what you see in your CAS? If you are unable to change the color of your red alien perhaps you could download this household and try with it in your game. The name of the household is "Kathekk - Red Alien". Another player i n the information I read said they used the red aliens from the gallery and messed around with genetics in CAS to experiment.
gertie47
Seasoned Veteran
1 year ago
@SheriGR It does appear that some mod has been used.

What I wanted to do was give game-generated aliens a makeover to be red "Martians". (I like to makeover my npc/townies so they are not wearing all the random nonsense they generate with). I had already done a series of pale aliens (to look like they were all in some kind of cult when in disguise), and I also did a series of stereotypical green aliens, and was hoping I could do some red "Martians".

I suppose I could make some from scratch using the red gallery alien as a base.
SheriGR
Hero
1 year ago
@gertie47 True... you could have some fun messing around with genetics in CAS too, perhaps. Now I'm wondering what doing genetics experimentation with the red one from the gallery could result in? I'm thinking I may leave this female I put in the screenshot in my game. My interest is piqued. I have not used the genetics options in CAS, but I bred then developed two groups of 'SuperSims' in a very convoluted breeding process for traits, and one of the traits that I required each to have in the beginning infant was the 'secret alien handshake', so the male at the base of the genetic/family tree was a full alien. I also just recently had my first abduction pregnancy in one of my main legacy sims. So, between these angles I'm enticed to experiment around more in the alien aspect of things. One of the things I thought was interesting with my SuperSim 'breeding' process is a couple of the final ones I used were born with a red tint to their skin tone... kind-of a pinkish/reddish/purplish tint blended in (I used no mods/cc). Sorry - I digress... Anyway... I'd be very interested to hear/see what solutions you come up with in your experiments! Good luck! 🙌