I stuck almost entirely to one undertone family when making a big genetic set in TS2 because otherwise there was no way to prevent, say, white parents with very pink undertones from having a baby with a pale golden, obviously meant to be Asian skintone, or vice versa - TS2 skintone genetics were purely a light-dark scale and nothing else, and while it was possible to create separate mini-scales if you stayed within them (i.e. should a child get a skintone matching the SkinHue of at least one parent? (I really, really hope this is true. do children get skintones with archetypes that match at least one of the archetypes of at least one of the parents? This is probably difficult to test with skintones that have lots of archetypes, but seems like it'd be fairly easy to test by creating a pair of skintones each tagged with a single archetype (the same one for both) and seeing what skintones their kids get, as long as you could easily identify the skintone (and thus check its archetypes) of each child.įinally, do we know if the SkinHue property is used in inheritance, or could be? i.e. Second, do we have any idea whether, or at least know how possible/likely it is that, these tags are used in inheritance? i.e. but I wonder if we know anything about these two properties in particular.įirst, this part isn't exactly genetics, but the fact that skintones with archetypes are more likely to be picked ('picked' means when the game generates new Sims, not when children are born to in-game parents? or is it both?) suggests that the game is using these archetypes in some way - perhaps this means that in the process of generating a Sim, it chooses an archetype and then creates the Sim using content, EA or random-allowed CC, that belongs to this archetype? So a skintone that only has the Asian archetype would only be selected when generating an Asian Sim, but a skintone flagged for several could be selected when generating Sims for any of them, and that is why it's picked more often? Is that something we already know is true, something that sounds like reasonable speculation, something we already know is NOT true?

Well, I've read all the comments on CmarNYC's Skininator and I see she doesn't feel she knows how skintone inheritance works in TS4, and in general there seems to be very little info about it. Skintone Genetics - Archetypes and SkinHue

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