Easiest way to change skintone genetically?

[elle.jae]

Okay, so I've had this problem with one of my families. The mother had skintone 1 and the father had skintone 5 (found here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=160572). They had 4 kids (2 boys, 2 girls) and I couldn't figure out for the life of me why they all had skintone 1. I tried quitting without saving again and again, but no matter what I tried, the babies were always pale. I finally gave up on it thinking that somehow the game wasn't recognizing the father's skintone.

Now the kids are grown up and I noticed that the sons have hairy arms. VERY hair arms. Then I remembered that I had downloaded a hairy skintone so I could make Randy from Trailer Park Boys in all of his hairy cheeseburger-gut glory. It seems that what I made the couple in CAS, I must've accidentally chosen that skintone for the mother instead of the regular Maxis skin. Now all of the kids are stuck with it and will probably pass it on to their children. This upsets me.

So now I'm here to ask - what's the easiest way to change a sim's skintone and make it genetic? It's been a little while since I've played, so I'm a little rusty on how things work. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Aggie]

SimPE can do this. I'll look for a tutorial for you.

In the meantime, do you happen to know if there's someone in the neighborhood that already has the skintone that you want to use? If so, this is how you do it:

1. Open up SimPE.
2. Click on Tools, then Neighborhood Selector. Choose the relevant 'hood.
3. GO into Sim Browser and select the Sim with the skintone you want to use, click on More and then select SimDNA.
4. Copy the line in the Skintone area (in the Dominant section).
5. Go into Sim Browser and select the Sim you want to change. Click on More and SimDNA.
6. Paste the line you just copied onto both the dominant and recessive lines for their DNA.
7. Click commit, then Save file.

Presto. It's done. However, if all you want to do is give them a Maxis skintone, just open up the SimDNA of the Sim you want to change and alter the Skintone line(s) to these:

Light: 00000001-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Tan: 00000002-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Medium: 00000003-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Dark: 00000004-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

You can alter the Skintone range as you like, but I'm not certain if altering both the Skintone line and the Skintone Range line will give you a different skintone than any of the four preset ones.