Changing Dominant/Recessive Values on Skin and Eyes

[furryjackal]

Oh! Okay. I shall try that next and see what happens.

It worked! Thank you, ever, ever so much for all of your help! You don't even know how much I appreciate this!

[angelyne]

Thank pioupiou, he's the one that told me how to change eyes

[furryjackal]

Thank you, PiouPiou! I very much appreciate it!

[pioupiou]

Like Brynne I'm a girl !!!!!

[angelyne]

Oops desolé!

[Syera]

Well, I got a pale skin made and hacked.  It's uploaded to BSI, in case, y'know, anyone's actually interested.

I even tinted the lips a little pinker - just enough to give them a little color without making them look silly against the in-game skintones.

[witch]

Thanks Syera, downloaded yr skin & will have a play with genetics when I get time. I was pointed to this thread by Sleepycat & have already d/l the text tutorial.

Great thread - good info, thank you all.

[Theo]

Syera, this is a truly valuable article, thanks a lot for the info. What is really cool (and I can't stress it enough) is that now the offspring of my custom-skinned sims can have an intermediate skin in relation to their parents

[Syera]

Aw, shucks.  Weren't nuffin', just putting everybody else's hard work into a concise and easy-to-understand tutorial like any good Simizen woulda done.   

[JenW]

Okay, hopefully I won't make myself look like a doofus here but being hacking-impaired I'm a little confused by exactly how your hacked pale skin works, Syera. I understand the part about "the game sees it as lighter than the light skin" (btw does that mean it will show up with the Maxis skin tones in CAS or is it still marked as custom?) but the second part of your description on the site confuses me a bit, or rather I want to make sure I'm interpretting it right. When you say "no more light skinned offspring from light and dark skinned parents" do you mean that this lighter skin won't be the dominent, and thus the children will have a skintone somewhere between the parents' skintones (i.e. one of the medium tones)?

[Syera]

It'll still show up under Custom skins.  And yes, they'll be able to have mid-toned children! 

[JenW]

Awesome! Thanks Syera

[Ancient Sim]

Would it be possible to create a complete new number, particularly for hair?  I would very much like to introduce 'mouse' to my games, so those kids who have parents with dark brown & blonde hair can come out like most kids of such parents do, with mousey hair (very dark blonde, if you prefer).  Ideally, the colours would be 1-Black, 2-Brown, 3-Mouse, 4-Blonde, 5-Red & 6-Grey, but as that's probably not possible, what would happen if I chose some colours and marked them as '6' in genetics?  (5 being Grey).  Would the game crash, be unable to recognise them, or what?  There are quite a few other colours I'd like to bring in too, such as burgundy, platinum blonde, light brown ... I'd love to see some of these coming out genetically instead of having to choose them all as custom hair.

[aqualectrix]

Well, you don't want to use 6.  That's for "custom hair that only shows up in Change Appearance, not CAS", as far as I can tell.

Anything not marked 1/2/3/4/5 is going to show up as custom, and anything marked 5 but with age flags not set to elder won't show up at all.

Which is to say: I'm pretty sure hair isn't as flexible as skin, although I dearly wish it was.  I generally categorize normal-colored hair (platinum, light brown, mouse, etc.) in whichever bin it is nearest to -- platinum goes in Blonde, light brown in with the Brown, etc.

[Jelenedra]

So if I recatagorize the genetic features on eyes and hair and skin and all that, will it affect sims in game that already have said custom content? Or will it only affect newly created simmies and babies said pre-existing simmies have?

[Jelenedra]

Just wondering if there was a way to change multiple files at the same time. I have SOOOO many eye colors to change!

[Jelenedra]

So I just want to make sure I am reading SimPe right, I think the OFB verison changed things up a bit. It alter genetics on skintone:

Open file > Skintone XML > Skintone XML > Change the genetic line of "0" to the new value you want

Is that right? I didn't see any option to select "Texture Overlay XML" on the skintone files and I want to be sure before I start fubar'ing everything. 

[Sleepycat]

Jelenedra, reply 4 by aqualectrix has the answers to your skintone questions

[Jelenedra]

Mmkay, my main concern was the fact the new SimPe doesn't have the texture overlay XML thingy. I clicked on something else that had "texture" in it (can't remember it now, not home) and it had a list of properties like the eyes did and had the genetic line. I was just afraid to change the wrong thing. =P

[Sleepycat]

skintone files have "Skintone XML" not "Texture Overlay XML"

[Jelenedra]

Ah there it is then. I was going by the faq Syera had posted in the first post. It said Texture Overlay in the skintone section. Hence all my confusion.  I'm new to the whole SimPe (heck new to any type of coding out of msdos) so I was a'scared.

[Sleepycat]

I hadn't even caught that typo/mistype in Syera file, sorry, ya that would have confused me too. When I did mine I had followed aqualectrix posts.

Theres still alot I haven't learned to do in SimPE   

[Jelenedra]

Aha, I didn't see that either. I read the entire post before opening up the text file. Obviously I didn't read closely enough. Oh well. All good now, I have a project for when I get home. 

[Sleepycat]

I'm pleased I did my custom skintones, already have atleast 1 baby born with one of the altered customs.

custom anything being dominet annoyed me so much that I wouldn't even use them (even custom hair) unless they were default replacements!

[Jelenedra]

Touche! I love my Enayla defaults. All of my simmies have been using her skins. Pretty much anything NOT Enayla is a celebrity skin, which I will set to lighter than .10 because I don't want children with Angelina tats.