question about genetics

"alyssa123;d-973988" wrote:
if i have a sim with freckles or beauty marks, could those features be passed onto their children?

I don't believe so - I think you'll have to apply them in CAS.

@loubyloulou i had a feeling that was the case, but i just wanted to double check. thanks!

At least freckles can. Darrel Charm and Alice Martin had a baby in my game and the toddler has freckles :) I was surprised to notice it when I observed the toddler in CAS and then remembered that Darrel has freckles too.

There's two types of people; those that like freckles and those that are wrong.

Nope. Freckles and beauty spots are not passed on by the game. In fact, I never even saw them being randomly added.

There's nothing stopping you from adding them manually, as you see would be natural from their DNA. In my game I have one additional DNA-string including both freckles and spots. Also need of glasses etc. What I see is that a sim with freckles might lose them on the next birthday, like if they were regular makeup. So I need to check each sim against DNA on every birthday. I keep all data in a spreadsheet, easy to access.

I wish all this (and more both related to skin and mind) was handled by the game. It also feels very limited that there are only 2 (?) beauty spot positions unless you have Get Famous or download CC. I wish those spots and freckles were included on their skin, and there would also be a chance of spots on their body, not only their face. Pretty much like the pet fur was handles in TS2 (or was it TS3), where a pattern could be the same as parent, but with a slight re-position it would give different visual outcome :)

But I have a child who inherited freckles. I wondered would the freckles disappear if I aged her from toddler to child, but they are still there. I didn't add them, because I hardly ever remember to add small details to my sims.

https://i.imgur.com/tT0XBpu.png

I have no idea where she inherited her eyecolour though.

I have identical twins that inherited their freckles, red hair, and eye color from both parents. :)
I guess being Viking, there's not much variety in genetics. :p ;) :D

https://i.imgur.com/xRedEtg.png

"haisin;c-17444052" wrote:
But I have a child who inherited freckles. I wondered would the freckles disappear if I aged her from toddler to child, but they are still there. I didn't add them, because I hardly ever remember to add small details to my sims.

https://i.imgur.com/tT0XBpu.png

I have no idea where she inherited her eyecolour though.

Spoiler

https://i.imgur.com/3Fl6Fzh.png
https://i.imgur.com/oFqnIbZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/rrfQmbh.png

Oh, that's way cool! No CC skin?

I never had it happen in my game, and there must have been 500 births by now, LOL. Your mother looks like one of the Strangerville sims, I don't have the Strangerville pack, but I guess we all have the same patches regardless of packs.

I don't think so, cause I use a mod that makes freckles and beauty marks inherited. But maybe there was an update that made them genetic? In which case that mod may be unnecessary now, lol.

It's possible, but very rare, at least in my saves and I don't use any mods. I've had only one or two Sims that have inherited freckles from their parents. I do love to use freckles a lot on my Sims, but their children hardly ever inherit them.