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thesweetestpea

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Adopted Children
« on: April 24, 2011, 06:33:43 AM »
We have threads for all sorts of Sims, but I didn't see one for the adopted children that the game gives us. I've adopted several children in various games, and have come up with some very interesting genetics.





This is Bunny, a sim I adopted a while ago and grew up from baby to YA. She's probably my favorite of the sims I've adopted so far. The first picture was taken when she was a teen, the second I took in the mirror a few minutes ago. Everything about her is as it came, except that I slimmed her down a lot when she got to teenage stage. I love her eyes and her hair a lot.

I've noticed that with adopted sims, their faces, eyes, lips and so on always seem to be exact defaults from the CAS screen. I've had a lot of sims with interesting hair, however. Bunny's brown and black hair isn't a default hair, and I think I've now had two adopted sims with dark brown/black hair that has blonde streaks in it. I think the adoption generator has some hair colors programmed into it that aren't shown in the CAS screen, but since I haven't yet adopted a lot of sims over several families and I've only seen one duplicate hair color, I can't really test my theory yet.

So how about you? Have you adopted any sims and what did they turn out like?

(apologies for size, I don't know how to resize the images)

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2011, 06:41:11 AM »
Don't worry about the size of these pictures.  However, you are welcome to use the Carl's Sims 3 Gallery to host your Sims 3 images that you put on the Forum.  It's free for our members and is pretty simple to use.  Click here for instructions and information.  The Gallery will automatically resize your pictures to the preferred size for the Forum.
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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2011, 06:44:45 AM »
I have never adopted baby Sims. How is this done? Thanks-

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2011, 06:53:25 AM »
Thanks, Pam. I knew we had an image gallery but I had no idea how to register.

catlover, to adopt children you need to call for the Social Worker to adopt a sim, under Service Personnel on the mobile phone. Then a popup will appear asking you to choose the age and gender of the baby. When that's done, the social worker will come and leave the child, and then they're yours.

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2011, 07:08:15 AM »
I love adopting. In one of my stories, The Memoirs of Laura Fearless, the main Sim (Laura) adopted four babies, in addition to one of her own, and pursues the Surrounded by Family lifetime wish - in the swamps of Twinbrook. Four of the nooboos (all adopted) are children now. Now let's see if Photobucket has those screenies somewhere... Ah! Here they are.



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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2011, 07:12:58 AM »
Thank you for the information, I will definitely give that a try! I will post pictures soon.  :)

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2011, 07:14:42 AM »
In my Legacy I switched Households to the Twin Sister of the Heir and had her adopt a child. I called her Alana and she was their Second child. The sister was pregnant with their Third. Alana is pictured below with her Mother on the left. Neither have had a makeover by me yet. I then left them alone and went on with my Legacy. When the Heirs daughter was a Teen she met her Cousin. She invited her cousin to her Birthday party. The adopted cousin looks exactly like her Aunt Rabbit (Heir of Gen 6)... Same hair, same eyes and same skin.



This is the Gen 6 Heir as a Teen.



Freaky or what! Their Hair Colour is also not the standard one in CAS.
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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2011, 07:22:10 AM »
It could also be that the game saves hair colors of all the sims we play into the adoption pool, but I don't recall ever creating a sim with blonde streaked hair. Hmm... I think I'm going to adopt some more kids in some of my families and grow up some of the others later to see about the hair.

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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2011, 07:36:47 AM »
I don't normally save Hair Colours in my games unless I quite like them.
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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2011, 05:16:25 PM »
I also like to adopt sims! Oddly, Bunny (from the first post) looks exactly like a sim called Cara, that I adopted when she was a baby! And I put that hairstyle on her  :P The only difference it that Cara is more muscular, but that isn't genetic as she worked hard for those muscles!  :D

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2011, 12:08:25 AM »


This is Cherry Rhodes, the first child of six (!) adopted children from the same family. Her sister Demeter is also a teen and I'll put up a photo soon. Of the others, three are children and one is still a baby. Since they don't appear to grow into their features until they get to teenager, I'm leaving off those pictures until they do. And also, Cherry's hair color isn't default either - it's close to the game's default blonde, but not exact.

I've been playing a few families with adopted children, so I'm going to post some of their offspring here when I get teen photos as well.

I don't normally save Hair Colours in my games unless I quite like them.

I don't either. I've only saved a few hair colors, which are mostly customs I did for children or the hair of one of their parents so I can switch it if they get the other parent's hair. That's why this hair colors springing out of nowhere is befuddling me.

Edit: Here's Demeter.



Her hair color was the default black, but I changed it to a more natural black.

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2011, 09:46:36 AM »
I decided to play Bridgeport and adopted a child for Polly Maloney.  This is baby Jonah all grown up.  I think he's probably one of the better looking Sims I've come across.

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2011, 04:06:03 PM »
Meet Leader of the Free World, Zachary Martin nee Clavell. Adopted son of Bessie and Buster Clavell.

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2011, 01:29:11 PM »


This thread inspired me to check up on the kids I had my Sims adopt when the population of Sunset Valley started to get a bit low.
Pic 1 : Ransom Clavell adopted by Tori and Xander. Pale but nice looking.
Pic 2 : Poor Chris Steel was unlucky in love this game so I had him adopt CJ ( Chris Jr. haha) to pass his name to. He's rather handsome.
Pic 3 : Courtney Wolff. Morgana adopted her after Thortons unfortunate demise. Shes rather pretty and the girlfriend of CJ.
Pic 4 : Erika Crumplebottom. Agnes didn't find love until she was elder so she and her second hubby adopted.
Pic 5 : This cutie is Nathan Bachelor. Adopted by Michael and his wife as elders. The hairstyle really suits him.

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Re: Adopted Children
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2011, 09:51:26 PM »


Number 3 of the Rhodes sisters, Faith. She and Cherry could definitely be sisters, but she's thinner and darker than Cherry. They have the same face shape, nose and lips though. Again, her hair isn't default.