Second, do we have any idea whether, or at least know how possible/likely it is that, these tags are used in inheritance? i.e. but I wonder if we know anything about these two properties in particular.įirst, this part isn't exactly genetics, but the fact that skintones with archetypes are more likely to be picked ('picked' means when the game generates new Sims, not when children are born to in-game parents? or is it both?) suggests that the game is using these archetypes in some way - perhaps this means that in the process of generating a Sim, it chooses an archetype and then creates the Sim using content, EA or random-allowed CC, that belongs to this archetype? So a skintone that only has the Asian archetype would only be selected when generating an Asian Sim, but a skintone flagged for several could be selected when generating Sims for any of them, and that is why it's picked more often? Is that something we already know is true, something that sounds like reasonable speculation, something we already know is NOT true?
Well, I've read all the comments on CmarNYC's Skininator and I see she doesn't feel she knows how skintone inheritance works in TS4, and in general there seems to be very little info about it. Skintone Genetics - Archetypes and SkinHue
