Playing With Genetics
PixelCurious has created some brilliant skin colour sliders that include a fabulous TS2-style alien minty green, something I’d been searching for, for a long time, but had never found.
I’ve put in a cut because I’m being really nerdy and boring but I’m sharing the results because I like looking at the pictures and posting them here frees space on my hard drive. So, if you want a taster of how PixelCurious’s Mango-Melon and Minty2 skin colour slider will look on your sims and breed down into your sim’s offspring, then please read on.
TS3 genetics don’t work in quite the same way as TS2. Hair and eye colour come from the parents though there is a random element thrown in so that sometimes they have a different colour to either of the parents. I’ve also heard that these colours can skip generations and turn up later but I’ve no real experience of this, in game. The skin colour doesn’t appear to have a random element, it will be either one of the parents but vary in shade between the shades of the two parents. So two light coloured parents will never have a dark child,
I quite like pale green sims but don’t really like the darker greens. (Yes I know my most used user icon is a dark green but we’ll just call that an aberration, shall we?) So it looks like PixelCurious’s minty greens slider will be perfect for me. Thank you, Pixel.
I’ve just been experimenting with them all. The hydrangea shades are gorgeous, especially the pinky one, and the Mango-Melon gives interesting results.
I’ve enjoyed playing. I’m probably going to bore you now.
This is Frank Enstine, as created in a pale default green.
Frank in PixPix minty green. It’s a subtle change.
As Frank has had very little action in my games, I decided to pair him with Jee Jee.
Jee Jee was created using Lady Frontbum’s Asian skins.
But I think she rocks the Pix Pix Mango-Melon.
This colour is towards the front of the scale, so with both the default green Frank and the minty green Frank, I had lightish results with no pinks or greens from the mango-melon skin tone scale. (Apologies really should have made these pictures smaller.)
She didn’t get those brown eyes from either parent.
Thought that this one was a pretty mix of both parents.
Changing Jee Jee to the colour at the other end (right end) of the Mango-Melon scale brought more varied results, as the offspring had a wider range of colours/shades.
A sample from minty Frank:
Her daddy’s colour eyebrows don’t really go.
You can definitely tell who’s daughter this is.
These are default green Frank’s offspring:
The clothes and hair style choices are all EA’s.
Little miss here is on the mango-melon scale.
For a bit of variety I bred a little man - though EA put him in a pony tail and gown, which makes it difficult to tell.
Last sample, I’ve bored you long enough:
Oh my gosh, it’s a green goblin!
So, I think that, in future, when I make any alien sims, I’ll be using PixelCurious’s skin sliders. That way I should be able to avoid the really dark colours (dark greens, blues and reds) that I don’t particularly enjoy seeing on my sims.
Thanks Pixel your sliders are wonderful.