Sim genetics

I have not experienced the same but have not had many kids since Seasons came out (just due to starting a new neighborhood and playing rotationally). Will look out for this though.

I don't really look closely enough if I'm honest :D Often a child will look really like one parent, but will have the same eye colour as the other parent, for example. Also my couples tend to look rather similar anyway, I don't particularly spend much time over how exactly a Sim looks in CAS.

I had that issue with a couple of twins that my sims had right after I got seasons. They were identical to their dad so I had to go into cas, delete them and spawn two brand new twins using "play with genetics". I'm hoping it doesn't happen again because it's pretty disappointing.

The Pancakes recently had a child in my game and he is 50 percent Bob, 50 percent Eliza, which makes him 100 percent ugly. :( But the rest of my kids in the game some look like one parent, some look like the other and some are mixed with both.

"CamaroSycopaChic;c-16732225" wrote:
The Pancakes recently had a child in my game and he is 50 percent Bob, 50 percent Eliza, which makes him 100 percent ugly.

I'm sorry, I can't control myself from laughing... :D

Most of my kids Sims are mixed of their parents. They either look weird or good looking... Maybe because I only allow them to have a child or 2. On the other hand, I found it's interesting to resemble the parent..

I had no kids in a while, but I never really thought of them looking like only one parent. In a family with 4 kids, all grew up with quite unique looks. Isn't the genetics working the same way in game as it is in CAS? Did you try playing with genetics in CAS?

Only on one odd occasion out of hundreds did my game have a child resemble their parent almost 1:1
Haven't had any kids grow up to teen since I got seasons though so I'm not sure if it'll still happen. I'll keep an eye out as well ^_^

I have this family where the daughter looks an incredible lot like her mom:
https://i.imgur.com/NmNFHdn.png

"Simmerville;c-16732285" wrote:
I had no kids in a while, but I never really thought of them looking like only one parent. In a family with 4 kids, all grew up with quite unique looks. Isn't the genetics working the same way in game as it is in CAS? Did you try playing with genetics in CAS?

This hasn't been a problem until recently. My sim children sometimes looked liked one parent or the other and sometimes they were a mix of both. Recently however, maybe since Seasons, they resemble one parent completely. I will go into CAS though and experiment with the genetics. Thanks for the suggestion.

For me, the mixing of appearances is usually subtle. I have one sim that, at first glance, looked a lot like her dad (same nose, facial structure, skin tone, and hair color) but had her mom's eyes and lips. So it's there, but it's not super obvious. If I feel like a sim looks too much like one parent, I usually change their appearance in CAS anyway ;).

I've noticed the same thing. I have many children in my game, majority are exact copies of one parent. Very rarely I get mix of both. It wasn't like that before, something was changed in game.