It always made me envious (?) that pets had so many more eye and hair colour options than sims lol

Something that Sims 2 players need to understand is that you can either have great customization or realistic genetics. It'd take an insurmountable amount of coding to have both. So The Sims 3 has unlimited customization, but it sacrifices realistic genetics. The Sims 2, on the other hand, has realistic genetics, but really limited customization. Pets are a great example of how, as soon as you want to expand customization, you have to sacrifice genetics. Though, as you pointed out, they could have done a better job with the mixing of small and large dogs.

Merta: *you can only have six pets in one household* Also Merta: 6:20

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Tbh I wonder if they left the puppies and kittens patternless as a reference to the few real life breeds that only get patterns as they grow up. Mostly in dogs, dalmatians are an example. In cats I think siamese are?

I tried to mix blue and yellow glowing cats (it's a CC) thinking I'll get green kittens 😅 ended up with four more yellow kittens

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Marticore, I bow to you. I've been wanting a thorough explanation of this for almost 20 years now. Really excellent content as always.

I love using the unlockable weird colors and patterns for pets then breeding them to see what comes through. My favorite is the star pattern fur for cats. I will start investigating heterochromia and report my findings if any. First born syndrome with pets seems quite likely from what I've experienced. Except with the Crittur family in the bin. The 3 puppies that are born always look the same but if you breed Danny and Samantha again the puppies will look more like their parents.

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I was so curious about this because I haven't played enough with puppies and kittens to know for myself how it turned out. Thank you!

OMG i spent over a week looking for this youtube channel. So glad I finally found it.

Your videos are so calming and relaxing for me

Do pet babies affect the human generated babies? Like, do they work from the same seed or are they completely independent?

Given that pets were an expansion instead of having the development time of the base game... I wonder if the "cut corners" with their (lack of) genetics was an omen of things to come with 3 and 4.

I cant believe I played Sims 2 for all these years (and played Pets more than other expansions) and I learned as much as I did in this video. I also had no idea about the right-click to take a percentage of a template!! very interesting! To this day, the pet designer in Sims 2 impresses me. The layering, color choices, it's arguably more in depth than the sim creator. This is why it's one of my favorite expansions

Honestly the pets feel so much more interactive, had my sim throw a bit of food to the cat, 10/10 made my day

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It is patently obvious now that the devs were testing out sims 3 genetics with sims 2 pets. And because we were all so excited by PETS!!!! they were like 'well, okay, players are fine with this downgrade in genetics, let's roll with it.'

All this time and I never understood why breeding large and small dogs together never produced an interesting mix... now I know it's always the mother dog's clone!! Amazing

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Woah I'm early, I just got done watching the spaniel video too, finally we're gonna get some answers...

I'm actually pretty glad the modified coat can be inherited, so they can't pass down ugly coats, but my modified ones lol. I'm just diappointed that the eye colour can't be directly changed, although there are workarounds via the breed saving. Useful if you want your kittens or pups to have heterochromia Pet breeding is one of my favourite things in SIms 2 right now, especially with the additional coat patterns and the other KittenintheWindow mods, I really love seeing buried layers expressed on my pets offspring. Another thing I realized with my pets (which is probably purely coincidental, but it's happened a lot so far) is that usually when having three kittens or pups, two of them are exact copied of one another, while the third is the odd one out. Since it wasn't mentioned in the video I'm guessing it's nothing, but I find it a little odd it happened so often in my game when I too have hundreds of different layers on both parents and two of the children happen to inherit the exact same, including eye colour, while the third sibling tends to look completely different Also, the premade dog breeds are awful and unrealistic and I'm currently remaking them to look like their real-life counterparts and guess what? They all just look way cuter and not the same anymore (seriously the default dog snout especially is giving me nightmares and I hate that it's just copy and paste applied to almost all breeds) I've actually considered uploading them to MTS, because they turned out really well despite the frankly limited sliders (which are even more limited on cats ;-;)

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man i love the balloon dog so much lmao

I tried so much breeding to get brightly coloured kittens and puppies and nearly always ended up with white or brown xD I think I got a litter of light pink ones once, but then got bored with the time in that household it took to breed the pets (without cheats/mods 'cause I had a slow computer when CC was on). I wasn't very good at the layering aspect of pet genetics.

I looooove the Shrek ref when saying they have layers 🧅

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I love Balloon dog so much sims 2 genetics working weird are my favorite thing

I wonder why dogs have a wider range of eye colors than cats 🤔 It's the other way around in real life

Does anyone know if the witches' familiars have genetics? I used the puppy creator to make a dog, and the evil witch familiar was available as a parent option, so chose it. The puppy was (I think) just like the other pet parent, so I don't know if there's no genetics to pass down, or if it was just bad luck.

At this point i don t even bother to understand genetics in the sims 2. It s way beyond my brain and my brain is fried at this point. It s funny how the first born syndrome is also here but i think that this time around this is unfixable compared to the sims one

Idk about animals but heterochromia in humans is a dominant gene, I would know; I have it myself. It seems far more common in cats than humans though. There is more than one type of heterochromia and not all are as noticeable as the type I have which is complete heterochromia. It is a shame that pet genetics don't really mix that much, would be cool to mix different breeds and register their offspring as new breeds cause registering breeds is a thing in the game.

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I needed this video 😺🐶 Thanks 😘

Nice video.

I'd like a mod to customize ears or tails , 😫, is it to much? like not genetically , just like a sims 'plastic surgery'.. kind of. Some of my born in game pets don't have the ears I want

It always irritated me that when mixing a big and small dog, you get a clone of the mum! Like, why? I like to play mad scientist and mix breeds, I want to see different things coming out, not a literal clone! xD

I have ways thought that at least cats look pregnant. Might be wrong

green kitten

like an onion or kremówka

5:18 And i had feeling so peculiar........