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arielgoth's avatar
10 years ago

Do your sims look like their parents and elder ancestors?

I'm not sure if it's been asked before, but I got thinking today about how the genetics work in regards to appearance. I notice that when my sims have children, typically the child looks specifically like one parent with a few altered features. One of my sims looks like a clone of his Dad and therefore looked a lot like his Grandmother. I very rarely see any sims in my neighbourhood that look like a mix of both parents. I thought it would be interesting to find out if others have similar or different experiences to me!

Do your sims look like one or their parents, or both? Do they look like their grandparents at all? Post pictures if you want! :)

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  • "XxSammyXDxX;13785688" wrote:
    Most of the time they get their dad's features for me.. however, sometimes something completely random will come out of no where.
    How two brown-haired sims managed to make a ginger, I will never know.


    I had the same thing happen twice to me.. I thought it was a bug or something. The colour out of the ordinary was also a ginger...

  • I've been creating family trees and seeing how much traits pass down. I have it on my other computer though, but I can post some pics later. I realized some of my CC was messing up the eye color genetics, so I ended up abandoning that family and starting over, but I think I have about 4-5 generations on that one.

    It does look like features are passed down. I'd definitely be interested in knowing more about it. I wonder if the gurus would share some information on genetics.
  • When my sims have children, the girls almost always look exactly like the mom, and the boys look like the dads. Usually they'll take one feature from the other parent they don't favor (girl gets dad's hair color, boy gets mom's eye color, etc). Only once I think did I have one sim who actually took features from both parents. My sims only look like their grandparents if their parents are spitting images of the grandparents (wish I had pictures...being a new member stinks >.< )
  • I always get a nice mix. I normally notice it in my videos when the baby has grown up to a child. Ex. Cassandra Goth in my remake of TS1, has Mortimer's skin tone, and I believe his eyes, but the rest is solely Bella.
  • http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q565/TheBlaireWitch/06-18-15_2-23nbspPM_zps95j0u9ca.png

    My teen, Cade. Got his mom's skin and eyes, everything else is his Dad. Like. Omg.