No Freckles??

Outside of the game, freckles are the result of how the sun is exposed to the skin. With a concentration of melatonin. I don't know if this is applied to the game mechanics or not. You could always just add in freckles to the kids too. I don't know if the Season's pack takes that into consideration with gameplay or not.

https://www.medicinenet.com/freckles/article.htm#what_are_freckles

"drakharis;c-16695658" wrote:
Outside of the game, freckles are the result of how the sun is exposed to the skin.

While this isn't incorrect, it also isn't definitive. Genetics play a role as well

The very article you linked to:

Research in twin siblings, including pairs of identical twins and pairs of fraternal (nonidentical) twins, have found a striking similarity in the total number of freckles found on each pair of identical twins. Such similarities were considerably less common in fraternal twins. These studies strongly suggest that the occurrence of freckles is influenced by genetic factors. The variations in freckle counts appear to be due largely to heredity.

Anyway, I don't think anything in the skin detail section of CAS gets passed down genetically.

"drakharis;c-16695658" wrote:
Outside of the game, freckles are the result of how the sun is exposed to the skin. With a concentration of melatonin. I don't know if this is applied to the game mechanics or not. You could always just add in freckles to the kids too. I don't know if the Season's pack takes that into consideration with gameplay or not.

https://www.medicinenet.com/freckles/article.htm#what_are_freckles

Ah. That would explain it. Don't know why I always assumed it was a heritable thing. Thank you for the info

"Cupid;c-16695664" wrote:

"drakharis;c-16695658" wrote:
Outside of the game, freckles are the result of how the sun is exposed to the skin.

While this isn't incorrect, it also isn't definitive. Genetics play a role as well

The very article you linked to:

Research in twin siblings, including pairs of identical twins and pairs of fraternal (nonidentical) twins, have found a striking similarity in the total number of freckles found on each pair of identical twins. Such similarities were considerably less common in fraternal twins. These studies strongly suggest that the occurrence of freckles is influenced by genetic factors. The variations in freckle counts appear to be due largely to heredity.

Anyway, I don't think anything in the skin detail section of CAS gets passed down genetically.

I did once see a sim whose mother had a beauty mark and he inherited the beauty mark too. He's somewhere in this thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/941218/vlad-the-progenitor

I've never had freckles pass down I have to manually add them

I would just like to mention that while I do love the game obviously, I feel like the generic componant is seriously lacking. It's one of the most interesting and interactive part of the game for me and I really do wish that it could be more complex and realistic. I think it's a very missed point in the game.

My Sims typically have freckles passed down

"PninaSimmer;c-16695923" wrote:
My Sims typically have freckles passed down

Really!?! Do you have mods?

I have to add them manually too, and with born-in-game Sims it can be an absolute chore because they don't always stick the first time. Even when generating Sims in CAS, whether new or through genetics, they never have freckles.

I've always had to add skin features, sadly. A shame because freckles really suit some sims.