How much do you edit your born in game sims?

I always go into CAS and age them up through young adult and look at how they turn out. In the past I almost always had to play around with their chins because it seemed like every one of them when they got to teen would have this weirdly tiny, pointed chin. Like 80-90% of them had this. Lately though it seems that the genetics have gotten a tweak and now I rarely have to edit facial features. Clothes are another story. Even if the game gives them decent looking outfits I give them head to toe makeovers.

I change only eyebrows, hair styles and clothing. Usually I don't make major changes, but only then if there is something that bothers me, like for example if the eyes are too small then I edit the eyes to make them little bit bigger.
I love the genetics in The Sims 4, and now it seems that there has been some improvements made so that the genetics work better and there are rarely cases where I feel like I need to make bigger changes to my born-in-game sims.

I’m trying to remember how many born- in -games I’ve had over the past 7 years…



3.




I had 2 boys, which I didn’t tweak at all, bar hair and clothing. In both cases the game auto- generated CC skin-details, so I kinda ran with that.

I also have a girl. When I aged her up from a baby object into a wee toddler, she had this CC birthmark on her face. I was absolutely delighted! I’d rather not use CC at all you see, this is why I‘m looking forward to getting all these new skin details in the upcoming patch. I love moles and freckles and acne and birthmarks and scars and…friggin’ hair. We need some ear and nose hair, just for grandad (and dear nana too).

Anyways, I made this little girl’s eyes slightly bigger and rotated her ears a bit, only to enhance what was already there, NOT to make her look like a completely different person. I don’t like altering sims’ genetics in ways that make them look unrecognizable. I will however almost always replace hair and attire. I even have this kid’s mom knit cute onesies for her. The one with the happy frog on it is the best. ?
She’s still a toddler, and one of my favorite sims, mainly because I gave her the angelic trait which really helps if yer a sensitive guy like meself.

Oh wait, I suddenly recall another child…also a girl. So 4 in total.
Gosh… my sims have been busier than I thought. Rogues. ?

Recently a sim toddler who was born in game ended up with the palest blonde hair, yet her dad has black hair, and her mum medium brown. Both parents were created in CAS. I was tempted to switch her to a darker style but decided to leave her as she is.

Only hairstyle, make up, eyebrows (if they look ridiculous) and clothes, but I never touch their face or body. I don't like doing plastic surgery on my Sims. I just love them for whatever genetic features they have.
I usually try to keep their "style" even for the clothes that they get when they age up. If a Sim has eyeglasses even on one outfit category when aging up I'm going to add them also on other outfits.
I like randomness on Sims. I care more about their personality than their looks.

"Kimmer;c-18239854" wrote:
Only hairstyle, make up, eyebrows (if they look ridiculous) and clothes, but I never touch their face or body. I don't like doing plastic surgery on my Sims. I just love them for whatever genetic features they have.
I usually try to keep their "style" even for the clothes that they get when they age up. If a Sim has eyeglasses even on one outfit category when aging up I'm going to add them also on other outfits.
I like randomness on Sims. I care more about their personality than their looks.

Easier to quote than type all the same :)

Another example of a slight edit: I aged up my child to teenager and she had very thick (vanilla) eyelashes that clipped to the skin above her eyes. So I dragged her eyes a little bit outwards to make the eyelashes clip less.

I'll adjust their noses, since the game NEVER adjusts them to match their parents'; they always get bigger noses. So I adjust them to match their parents.

I only edit hair style and clothes (and sometimes eyebrows but I try to stick with a similar shape to what they started with, just a bit thinner or thicker). The one exception in my massive save was one of Knox Greenburg’s kids who had a *very* pointy chin.

I let the genetics be. Can't all be perfect.. :D A good hairstyle, make up and outft change usually fixes things.