Chapter 2:: Create a Cat/Dog Cat Dog and Acquiring Pets Each bin also includes one blank-slate pet entitled “Create a Cat” or “Create a Dog.” This “breed,” with no markings or colors, is a good starting point for sculpting your own breed from scratch.
Save Breed After you finish shaping a pet, you can save its finished form as a template for future pets; go to panel 2 and press the Save Breed button. This adds your custom breed to the bin, and you can select it either manually or when generating a random pet. New breeds can also be added in-game by directing a Sim in the pet’s household to use the telephone to Register Breed. This saves the specified pet’s size, colors, markings, archetype, and modifiers as a new breed template for future selection. This is an excellent way to preserve and duplicate a pet created through in-game breeding.
Step 3: Coat Colors and Markings Panel 3.
Pets are as defined by their color and markings as they are by their overall shape. The combination of these factors that comprise a pet’s appearance can range from the simple to the dazzlingly complex. With the Coat Colors and Markings tool in panel 3, you can reproduce a pet as nature intended or use your imagination to craft critters nature never considered.
Remove Breed You can delete everything except the shipped breeds from the Breed Bin by pressing the Remove Breed button. This is permanent, so use this tool only if you’re very sure.
Package Pet Finished pets—including their gender, age, size, colors, markings, face and body shapes, collar, and Personality—can be saved and shared with others by packaging them. Packaging a pet works exactly like packaging a lot in the basic game. Pets can be packed: To a file that can be imported via the Package Installer application. Press the Package Pet to a File button.
This tool appears daunting at first, but with a bit of practice, you’ll get surprisingly nice results. The best way to grasp the process of building a coat is to examine the layers of existing breeds and alter them to see how they interact with each other.
Coat Layers Two parts define every pet’s coat: Coat/marking layers and colors Coat texture
Layers and Colors
To TheSims2.com to be shared with all players around the world. Press the Package Pet to TheSims2.com button.
Layers are parts of a pet’s coat that affect the appearance of part or all of the pet’s body. For example, muzzle layer will color only the pet’s muzzle area. Each layer consists of both a marking and a color.
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