Child Looks Nothing Like Parents?

He has dad's chin and jawline.
Looks like dad's lip preset with the thickness and curve of mom's upper lip. Bottom lip isn't as wide as dad's, similar to the width of mom's.
Tip of the nose looks like dad's from the side, but the bridge is straighter like the mom's.
From the front, the nose looks like it might be mom's preset with the bridge shaped similar to dad's, but narrower.
Looks like he has dad's eye shape based off the undereye bags (unless those are cc), but they're wider/larger in size so he probably inherited that from mom. Her male clone has kinda wide eyes too.

IDK how/if removing those mods affected his genetics, but he looks like the child of his parents to me, even if he looks a bit silly.
I sometimes like to randomize children for my couples in CAS out of curiosity before having them in-game, and a lot of times the children born in-game are more diverse looking than the ones CAS came up with.
Like any other Sim you randomize in CAS, I think the game just likes to use a lot of the same presets over and over again.

Have you looked at which preset features he actually has in CAS and compared them to his parents?

Maybe genetics came from his grandparents, it's possible in sims4 as well as previous games.

I don't think they are too much off their parents? Nose profile looks a bit off, but it seems parents has some extreme features, so maybe game is playing a bit different with those.

I recall in TS3, sims born in game could get genetics from grandparents. When creating a couple in CAS I always created their parents, in order to control the second set of genes. If a sim's parents were not known, the game would typically add a random set just to give each sim a set of 2 variations. I have no idea if this is valid for TS4.

Btw, I had some kids born with hair color different from both parents, so I assume the game occasionally throws in a random DNA... It's not happening often, though.

It looks to me like the parents have the same nose preset (male/ female version of the same nose) so technically the child should inherit the same nose also as you mentioned the lips are off, looks like a completely different preset and not a mix of the parents at all. You could check in cas. But if I remember correctly don't you play generational? Isn't it possible that a grandparent of the child has looks that might have been passed down to him?

"izecson;c-17052143" wrote:
Maybe genetics came from his grandparents, it's possible in sims4 as well as previous games.

Who said that?

"thatsnotsweg;c-17052105" wrote:
He has dad's chin and jawline.
Looks like dad's lip preset with the thickness and curve of mom's upper lip. Bottom lip isn't as wide as dad's, similar to the width of mom's.
Tip of the nose looks like dad's from the side, but the bridge is straighter like the mom's.
From the front, the nose looks like it might be mom's preset with the bridge shaped similar to dad's, but narrower.
Looks like he has dad's eye shape based off the undereye bags (unless those are cc), but they're wider/larger in size so he probably inherited that from mom. Her male clone has kinda wide eyes too.

IDK how/if removing those mods affected his genetics, but he looks like the child of his parents to me, even if he looks a bit silly.
I sometimes like to randomize children for my couples in CAS out of curiosity before having them in-game, and a lot of times the children born in-game are more diverse looking than the ones CAS came up with.
Like any other Sim you randomize in CAS, I think the game just likes to use a lot of the same presets over and over again.

Have you looked at which preset features he actually has in CAS and compared them to his parents?

Thanks for all this! None of the presets I checked (mouth, nose, eyes) match either of his parents'. I never thought that removing the downloaded presets could have this effect. I haven't done much research into how the game does genetics, but it seems to me that he's just too far off. I compared him as a female, too, with no avail. I tweaked his features a little and a lot of them look very similar to his parents when they're altered, but they're not the same at all. I can see where your comparisons are coming from for sure though. Does the fact that he has different presets than his parents mean that the genetics are a result of something else? I don't know how that works.

"JackOnYourBack;c-17052308" wrote:
if I remember correctly don't you play generational? Isn't it possible that a grandparent of the child has looks that might have been passed down to him?

Here are some pictures of his grandparents (on mom's side). I created the dad so genetic grandparents on that side don't exist. His great-grandparents are in my profile pic, but that might be too far back.

https://i.imgur.com/VSjkZ04.png?1https://i.imgur.com/Ia7LB6I.png?1

It seems unlikely to me that he inherited much of this look from them. To me he doesn't look like them at all. I might be wrong though! I'm no expert on genetics in this game, just thought he came out looking strange.


I ended up actually replacing the guy with a sim I created in cas using the play with genetics tool. However it happened, I think he was too alien looking to keep in my world :# I have nothing against unique/ugly sims, but this one was too much for me.

Perhaps it's part inherited genetics, part random mutation, but I can definitely see a resemblance between him and his parents and grandparents. I would just tweak his side profile etc. a little until you're happy with him. :)

"83bienchen;c-17052286" wrote:

"izecson;c-17052143" wrote:
Maybe genetics came from his grandparents, it's possible in sims4 as well as previous games.

Who said that?

My experience, have brown eyed parents, and tan-skinned mother, and a grandmother with blue eyes, a child of them has her mother's skin and hair color except the eyes, which is her grandmother.