Chinese translation of Genetics Overhaul Collection By SonozakiSisters

Finally I made one of the most challenging and wanted projects I planned to release. This mod collection provides completely another genetics system.

The main module adds essential genetics features we so missed in the TS4!

Inheritance from Grandparents
If you didn't know, the game completely ignores the appearance of grandparents. If you ever had an offspring with hair color or presets that reminded a grandparent, it was either a bug or a coincidence.

But this module is another story.

With a predefined chance (by default it's 80% but you can change it) an offspring inherits the parent appearance. It includes a skin tone, voice, face and body presets, sliders values, an occult race (if they have any) and hair and eye color. The remained chance applies on the grandparents appearance (by default 10% per grandparent).

So, this feature makes the offspring genetics way more interesting and diverse.

Natural Hair and Eye Color
It's so annoying that we don't have any possibility to 'dye' hair or make Sims wear colored contact lenses because the game percepts it as a change of genetics.

This module lets you to assign the natural hair and eye color, so you can freely change the Sim appearance and it won't affect the offspring genetics. Instead, the algorithm looks for flags of natural hair and eye color.

How does it work?
On the game launch the mod looks for player Sims and checks the hair color tags and the eye color values on their appearance and assign corresponding traits.

Regarding hair color, the highest priority have hairstyle and eyebrows. If the mod doesn't find appropriate tags (i.e. your Sim doesn't have hairstyle and eyebrows), it will look for a body hair color. It also works with CC as well until they have proper tags.

But no worries even if the mod didn't find anything appropriate (say, you use non default CC eyes) or you think a Sim has actually another natural color. With testingcheats enabled, Shift + click on the Sim and choose the correct color from the 'Choose Eye Color' or the 'Choose Hair Color' interactions of the Genetics Overhaul category.

Unnatural Hair Colors
Only teens and older may have unnatural hair color, that's why children have, for example, red hairs until they age up and get pink hairs. It works good in the vanilla, but if you have the Unnatural Hair Colors for Little Sims by SnarkyWitch, the mod will apply the unnatural hair color right from the infant age.

Eye Color Cheat Specifics
Because of great amount of eye colors (68 at this moment!), I divided it into categories by occult race. Yup, we now can assign any eye color regardless if a Sim is Human or, say, Vampire, but still it has the most appropriate occult race.

If you play without any occults, just check the first group of colors.

Otherwise, you can find a desired eye color in Vampire, or Mermaid, or Alien category and etc, if you have a corresponding game pack.

Please note that the occult eyes have quite extraordinary official names and I did my best to adapt it so you can understand more easily how do they look. But still, pay attention to the icon first. All of them come from CAS swatches.

Occult Eyes Fix
If you play with occults, you might notice that an offspring often inherits random eye color instead of the parent' ones. That happens because most of the occult eyes don't have a unique tag (just an occult race), so the game assigns random occult color.

But the mod memorizes the eye color ID instead of the tag and applies the corresponding eye color trait when creating an offspring. That's why a child will have exact eye color instead of the random one.

There is a special case for a few occult eye colors: they don't have a child version, they are for teens and older. The game just assigned them a brown color, but I mapped them to have a child similar color. For example, children with Blue Ghost fairy eyes have blue eyes until they age up.

Even if something went wrong and the mod hasn't replaced eye color on aging itself, you can use the 'Force Update Eye Color' cheat. It's available for teens and older who have these specific eye colors.

Occult Mutations
It's turned off by default, but when this feature is active, there is a chance (you can set it up) that a child will inherit a different occult race rather their parents and grandparents have, even if they aren't occults.

Adjusting Settings
You'll see the SonozakiSisters_Genetics_Overhaul_Settings.json file on the game launch in this mod folder. It has this structure:

{"inheritance_from_parent": 0.8,

"inherit_grandparents_presets": false,

"mutation_chances": {"SPELLCASTER": 0, "VAMPIRE": 0, "WEREWOLF": 0, "FAIRY": 0, "MERMAID": 0, "ALIEN"}}

Inheritance Chance
The first setting indicates possibility to inherit from parent instead of grandparents. This value should be between 0 and 1 inclusive. The grandparent inheritance possibility then (1 - inheritance_from_parent) / 2, or 10% per grandparent by default.

Also, the chance is applied on each genetics attribute separately. So an offspring may have eye color and nose from a grandmother, hair color and voice from a grandfather and other things from a parent.

If a parent doesn't have parents, then, naturally, only the parent genetics will be applied. If they have only one parent, the script will consider the parent genetics with the same chance (80% by default), and the grandparent genetics with 1 - inheritance_from_parent chance (20% by default).

Inherit Grandparents Presets
This feature is turned off by default in case you want more fixed and predictable inherited presets. If you set true instead false, then the grandparents presets will be considered too.

Mutation Chances
It's turned off by default, but you can set a value between 0 and 1 inclusive for any occult race you want. Please note, these chances don't affect possibility to inherit occult race that parents or grandparents have, only inheriting occult races they don't have.

I haven't included ghosts and aliens, because it seems weird for me. Aliens can only come from Sixam, and ghosts are dead Sims with a soul basically.

It also supports a hybrid system if you have a mod for that. Then each inherited trait can be mutated (i.e. two traits can change instead of one).

遗传基因大修的简繁汉化

这套模组带来了全新的遗传系统，填补了游戏在基因传承方面的诸多空白。

后代可以隔代遗传祖父母的外貌。
模组会自动扫描或手动分配模拟市民的天生发色和瞳色，染发或戴美瞳不会改变基因。
即使父母都是人类，也可能基因突变生出异能种族（默认关闭）。
肤色更精准遗传，综合考虑父母人种、色调冷暖、颜色深浅、奇幻肤色，后代将直接继承父母之一的肤色，而非两者的混合色。
眼睛与头发匹配，避免生成金发黑皮亚洲人。
设置滑块拉杆随机化的上下限，大大降低丑NPC出现的概率。

Genetics Overhaul Collection: Better Inheritance + No Weird Age Up and Random Genetics By SonozakiSisters | Chinese Translation