Date Posted: 4th Sep 2012 at 8:12 PM

One major problem I have discovered with muzzled faces is that if the jaw and mouth are not properly aligned and matched, the bright white lower denture shows when they talk. I didn’t learn of this until after releasing my 3 Sim animals post, but they seem to work all right. Their children, however, could have problems if the parents are not from the same template, or the nose, mouth and jaw are not inherited from the same parent, Two suggestions to minimize problems are template incest, or using SimPE to control the face genetics of the prospective parents. Template incest simply means that the parents share the same face template, not that they are related.

NOTE, remember to back up your neighborhood before making changes.

To change which facial characteristics a Sim passes on to its children you need a working copy of SimPE and a basic knowledge of how to use it. Start by opening SimPE, then use the ‘neighborhood browser’ to select the neighborhood with your prospective parents in it. In the resource tree choose ‘Sim description’ then use the ‘Sim browser’ to select the longer muzzled of the parents. In ‘Plugin view’ go to ‘more’, and choose ‘Open Sim DNA’, the second line of ‘Dominate Gene:’ should be ‘FacialFeature’ and should have 1 to 7 of the 8 possible inheritable facial features listed. (Here are the 8 features in order; nose,brow,mouth,cheek,cheekbones,eyes,jaw,ears, the format excludes spaces, but includes a comma after each word including the last.) Clicking on the left half of this line allows you to change the list on the right half. For the muzzle to be passed on the list must include nose,mouth,jaw, you can include up to 3 more features from this Sim as long as you arrange them all in order, without spaces, and with a final comma. Click on ‘commit‘, then save. Go back to ‘Sim description’ in the resource tree, use the ‘Sim browser’ to find the other parent, open it’s Sim DNA, remove any features from it’s list that you included in the other Sims list, add (in order, without spaces, and with the final comma) any or all features not on the others list (unlisted features will be covered by the game, and might add some randomness) , click ‘commit’, then save.

You can use this procedure on any pair of Sims with distinctive facial features, just decide which features you want inherited from each parent, then change the dominate facial feature lists to reflect this. This technique can also be used on alien PT’s to make it more likely that the features you want passed on will be, changing the abductees DNA is optional, but recommended.

This should help your unusual Sim parents have children with desirable features.