Genetics in the Sims 4

[snackrafice]

Since it has been many months since the release of the Sims 4 there are probably quite a few players with long family trees and I was wondering how the genetics are with Sims 4 in comparison to the previous Sims game. Like, do genetics from the grandparents (such as hair or eye color) sometimes show up in grandchildren? I also remember in Sims 3 that there was a small (about) 10% chance that a child will get random hair or eye color that is not at all apparent in their family tree, has this occurred in anyone's Sims 4 game? So far in my game all my children's genetics are solely from the parents (no grandparent influence whatsoever) when it comes to body, facial features, hair, and eyes. I also have not gotten random hair or eye colors with my family's children. Curious to see other player's experiences and to see how the genetics compare to the previous game since the genetics and having large families is one of my favorite aspects of the Sims games.

[Figwit]

The randomness is there.  I had one child age to teen with grey hair.

My children do look like their parents.  I always thought in Sims 3 they looked like either one parent or the other but in Sims 4, it seems to be a better mixture of both.  I am not sure about inheriting body shapes though.  My two slim and muscular sims produced boys who were quite chubby around the middle.

[ladyaya]

I've noticed that the way I want my average female body shape vs. a male body shape is entirely opposite - with the female being curvier and the male being very much less so. Because of this, I get odd curvy boys and not so curvy girls which just look weird on the opposite gender.

[Playalot]

I just googled "sims 4 genetics" and saw few videos that about kids DO take DNA from parents randomly.

Yes, children do but I think snackrafice was hoping for some in-game info on how genetics pass down through multiple generations.

I've got as far as gen 6 and I think that some of the features have definitely passed down. Mostly eye and jaw shape with the hair colour seeming to follow the parents rather than grandparents. I think overall, the genetics are working really well.

[mushplomplom]

I did a test on this with Bella Goth and by the end of it she had 17 children.

Most of her children have her hair color, eye color, eye shape, jaw shape, lips and skin tone.

The way I see it it takes random traits from the mother and random traits from the father and puts it in the child.  The game does not care which gender the child is or what trait is passed on so you might get female traits to your male child or male traits into you female child(Some of Bella's children look extremely distorted). It does not blend those traits as for as I can tell since the children's hair color was either Bella's hair color or the father's.  But I am not certain if the skin color blends or not since it is very subtle to me. 

I also did this with a Sim with a very big derriere and some of his kids had the same by teen so yes body parts do transfer to the children.

Just to make sure body parts do transfer I made a very skinny sim with a very out belly which looks like her spine is curved like banana I had about 3 kids and all of them had the out belly and spine shape like a banana.

I also had Alexander Goth have 3 kids none had Bella's trait because all of them look exactly like Alexander.  Save for the common traits Bella and Alexander share

[Stormi71]

I've finally got two grand children in the game, they are still children. The children are cousins. Two brothers married two sisters, and the grandparents are the brothers parents. The sisters don't have in-game parents, I created that family as five kids living with the grandfather, but I made the parents first, made genetic offspring, made the grandmother, then deleted the parents (so can't remember what they look like, didn't save them at all). All five of those children looked very different as teens, looks and body shape. One of them looks really weird as she is really skinny with a small head and long neck.
I will have to compare the kids with the paternal grandparents and see if I can see any resemblance.

[oshizu]

I hope it's okay to revive an old thread--I have a question related to the topic of Sims 4 genetics.

Let's say I "plan outfits" with a household female sim and change the color of her hair and eyes.
When she later gets pregnant, is she most likely to pass on to her children the original or new color of her hair and eyes?

[oshizu]

Bumping my own topic....would it have been better to create a new topic? (Actually, I prefer to revive old topics than to start a new thread when a thread on the same topic already exists....)

My question:
Let's say I "plan outfits" with a household female sim and change the color of her hair and eyes.
When she later gets pregnant, is she most likely to pass on to her children the original or new color of her hair and eyes?


Edited to add: My apologies for being so impatient and bumping my own topic. I won't do it again, promise!

[Playalot]

It's fine to revive a thread like this as no patch has changed anything... it get's tricky when an older thread about aspirations for example gets revived as patches have changed so much around aspirations that older posts are basically incorrect.

Now, as to your question... I don't actually know! I would assume if the pregnancy happens after the changes then that is what the genetics would use as a base.

[oshizu]

@Playalot  There's a potential townie spouse with the right traits but the "wrong" hair color. I'll report back after multiple births, thought the sampling will be too small.
                  Ehh, I guess I could open a test game and make like 50 babies, haha. No, probably not.
                 Thanks for responding!