Hey all!

So I have custom content skin with OFB. My babies are not the same skintone as their parents. I had a woman with a dark custom skin get with a guy with non custom skin, hispanic I guess. When she had the baby it had the lightest skin color which made no sense. Please help!

This explains how skin tones in the game work. http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php...cized_Skintones

When you downloaded these custom skins, did you note whether they're geneticized? If so, please do read what joandsarah77 wrote. At this point, I'd be careful about removing them, though.

I've geneticized all of mine now, and I do like that. But sometimes ... probably depending on the value I assigned to them ... I wind up with a kid having a skintone that has little to do with either parent. If it's a skintone that really doesn't make sense (for example, one of the fantasy skintones I've put in my collection) ... I find the best way to approach it is to simply save right before the birth, and if I get a child with a strange skintone, exit without saving. It doesn't happen often enough for me to re-geneticize my Sims skins.

YMMV.

Maybe the woman was fooling around a little too much.

If the custom skin is not geneticised, it could be that the person who made it only made an adult version of the skin, leaving the other ages pale. Or you could have a geneticised skintone wrongly set between dark and medium. Perhaps if you point us to the custom skintone, we might be able to tell what the problem is.

Also, some CC creators only change the adult skins and not the child/infant/toddler skins, so it's entirely possible that the skin is based on a light skin.

It can happen in real life. I remember learning in school about a white couple in apartheid South Africa who had a coloured child. When she was 14, she wasn't allowed to stay in their white-zoned house, and the only way they could keep was to employ her as their maid and have her living in a hut in their garden. It was probably the result of someone "fooling around" generations earlier.

If this happened in my game I think I'd just "run with it" and keep the child. Even in the Sims I reckon it's still an innocent child needing love and attention.

I recently read an article about an English couple who had twins -- one light pink, one dark brown. That kind of thing is actually not all that uncommon.

But, in the game it can occur for a completely different reason. You can check your sims' genetics using SimPE. If they don't have a recessive light skin, then the likelihood is an incomplete custom skin. Is that right?

That is just plain sick those poor people.

I don't know why the news makers make such a big deal of bi racial children having differently toned skin from each other. I mean what else do they expect? That's just normal, not news.

Cheating bit**

What? The OP can always change the child's skin in SimPE if it bothers them.