Ugly children

"Kolikokolitka;c-16530557" wrote:

Amelia - Eleanor's daughter. She has all the bad features from her parents but I still like her.
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Amelia is actually really cute! :smiley:

I don't think I've had a truly ugly (remembering that beauty and ugly are subjective) Sim child in my game. Although, I have been tempted a time or two to 'fix' the wild looking eyebrows! LOL But, no I don't tend to tamper beyond changing their hairstyle.

Nope, aside from hairstyle, I don't change their physical appearance. I love seeing what the genetics can do, and I love when my sims come out not looking gorgeous. I love sims that have interesting or unusual features.

What we call beautiful anyway is pretty much a set of specific features that we've deemed 'good,' which has changed throughout history depending on so many different factors. What happens then, at least for me, is that 'beautiful' means they all look the same. And I have a lot of trouble telling people apart on a good day, so it helps me a lot to have varied facial features.

I've watched so many movies and been so confused because I couldn't tell Matt Damon from Mark Wahlberg from Leonardo DiCaprio. :|

When I create my own, I push their physical features beyond what the game would generate on its own. The sims art style also works so well for having some features be exaggerated, and I wish that the game itself pushed the boundaries more when it comes to the appearances of the randomly generated sims. I get bored by them easily and will often resort to adding in sets of my own sims to have some greater variety of physical attributes. The game throws in an especially large nose every now and then, but..eh. Could do a lot more.

Whenever my Sims have children. I always age up the baby today toddler immediately, and then input cas.editmode, and go into CAS and age them up as teens/young adults as see how they turn out. Occasionally I adjust them if they salvagable, but in some cases, when they're not, those Sims will get deleted. I age them back to toddler if they're salvagable, and if not salvagable and they're deleted, I use the genetics feature to come out with a good looking Sim.

It's surprising that some of my best looking Sims come out with some hideous children just by Woohooing, but using the genetics feature in CAS to make a child, they produce allot of excellent looking children. Genetics could use an overhall to be honest.

I have MCCC, and Sims will start having children. A reason I always edit any premade Sims that are still alive, so that if MCCC has them have babies with some of my NPC or playable characters, they're not hideous monsters that look like they came from a horrific accident.

I usually just play with sims that I create myself and while I'm a complete control freak about every last feature when I make a sim from scratch, I try not to edit the next born-in-game generation too much. However, children generated from their parents in CAS are fair game to mess around with as I please. It adds some variety and I think it's too easy to make the same face over and over if you constantly mess with it. If there's an issue with abnormally-placed features, for example too high, too low, too long, too short etc. I'll tweak just a little bit to make it acceptable. I can work with any preset.

As long as you don't have kids with Vlad, then most turn out pretty normal-looking. :sweat_smile:

I don't like editing genetics either, but considering this is Sims at least I don't have to feel bad about Silicon Valley'ing my kids faces if they look like a bag of spanners.

I wouldn't change the sim if I found them "ugly". I'd try to fix them with hair/make-up/glasses, maybe change the eyebrows, but I wouldn't cheat and edit their genetics. I've never had a REALLY bad case of this though, but then I'm also of the mindset that less attractive sims isn't such a bad thing. Not everyone is a supermodel IRL either.

I only fiddle with their hair and clothes. Facemasks under skin details are usually enough to fix anything that looks too wonky, anyway. I like having unique-looking sims, even if they're not very attractive. Reflects the real world.

Sometimes my offspring have aged up and become kinda fat... I give them an Insta-Lean potion, which makes them unrealistically skinny.
I am not that shallow IRL. I swear. But the Insta-Lean potion is so much quicker than getting the kid to work out.

...Usually I just get rid of the baby and make my own using the genetics tool. But sometimes I let fate decide.

For example, Kameko had the misfortune of inheriting her dad's eyes, but I felt like it would be cheating, and boring, to change them.
https://i.imgur.com/mzVYJ5r.jpg

It's a good thing I didn't because otherwise she would never have ended up with Earl, and they're one of my favourite couples.
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