I recently started playing the sims 2 again after a few months break, log on to this site eagerly looking for new mods and was suprised no ones been able to make one to allow you to choose a new baby's sex yet.

Ten minutes work with SimPE showed me that both the "Home Birth - Prepare New Baby" (Grp:0x7F1D0F49 inst:0x0000101F) and the "Adoption - Create Baby" (Grp:0x7FA5FB07 inst:0x0000100C) both call "0x0315 Sim - Create New Sim - Child" Global with different parameters.

Since adoption allows you to choose the sex of a baby surely one of these parameters must allow you specifiy the babys sex. Unfortunatly bhav parameters confuse me.

Has anyone looked at this?

I never got to choose the gender of my adopted kid!

Really? I got to choose the sex of my adopted kid. Maybe it was a glitch in the game.

You get to choose the age group but not the gender when you adopt a child.

What about when it's NOT an adopted kid, is there any way to choose the gender in that scenario (if it's not a character you create but is one that gets born).

You can't choose the sex directly, but what you can do is save the game shortly before the pregant sim goes into labor. If the baby born is not of the gender you'd like, you can exit the game without saving, go back, have her give birth again and see if you get what you want. You can repeat this as many times as you'd like. It's not just the gender of the baby that changes, but also their genetics might be different.

Would somewone creat a hack that u can conrole the sex

It would be very helpful to have a mod like this.
It really gets annoying when ur trying to make stepford wives and all you get is boys -argh-

Surely the factw e are making 'designer' sims anyway would rule out upsets over designer babies and for those of us who just try it again and again until we get the right sex are doing it anyway so where have maxis got there problem with it?

This would indeed be helpful. Especially when I'm trying to create my family starting with my great grandfather and great grandmother. I ended up with a lot of extra aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings.

I think that the code is hardwired into the game. J.M. Pescado (who, for some strange reason, has become a mute on these forums while heavily chatting on his forums) said that he tried.

can someone tell me how to make one of your sims run away?

You can have a baby, and then change its gender in SimPE..

What is SimPE?

http://sims.ambertation.de/realdownload.shtml

That's SimPE

I tried to do that once but then when I went back into the game the toddlers face were gone...

I did this yesterday yet when the baby turned into a toddler, she was a boy. Is there more to do in SimPE then just tick the box "treat as female"?

Yes There is more than ticking the box treat as female.

Change the sex of a baby in the Sims 2

There is an alternative, you can just change the gender of the baby to what you want after it's born.

There are a few steps you need to do to change the gender.

Start SimPE & load up the neighborhood. Then do Tools menu >> List Sims & look for the baby's name. Adjust the box so you can see what the character number is.

1) Open that Character file in SimPE - the Character files are located in the My Documents/EA Games/Sims 2/Neighborhood/N00?/Characters folder. In Filetypes, click on the Catalog Description to make sure it's the correct name! Now click on Age Data & make sure the Plugin View tab is the current view. Look for the line that says:

Gender (dtUInteger) = 0x00000001 (is female) or 0x00000002 (is male)

Change this to the sex you want & click Commit.

2) Now, click on the Property set (in Filetypes) Go through each one & chage the gender to what you want (see above) & click Commit every time.

3) Do File Menu >> Save

4) Now, do the Neightborhood Browser again, then use Sim Browser & locate your baby. There's a box there that says Treat as male or female, check the correct one & then Commit & Save.

That's it, they are changed.

Has anyone found a better hack or mod for changing a baby's sex other than using SimPE or the save and exit method? Neither have been successful for me. (I'm not to technical and I've tried the exit method over fifteen times.)

See post #6 in this topic. Sometimes it takes many tries. And remember you have to save the game before the baby is born. The latest point to save is when the mom (or dad) giving birth starts moaning. After it goes to the loading screen "there is a baby on the way" or past that, it's too late to save because the baby has already been created. If the sim is having the baby with her/himself, then it'll always be of the opposite sex to the parent. This will happen if the dna of the other parent is missing at the time of birth (for example, the dad died during pregnancy). In these cases, reloading won't help. This is why Brandy's third child is always a boy unless you have resurrected Skip before the birth.

Very interesting to know about the missing parent issue.

Well, I've ventured into SimPE, I've deleted all of the dead Goth daughters and the family is all back in order (I somehow erased all of their memories and relations), but now the young goth boy got the message that Bella once had: "Vincent has died on another lot..." So, does anyone remember how to revive someone with SimPE? I don't want to mess anything else, and the ressurect-career reward thing doesn't work.

Thanks in advance.

here is a link how resrect Bella Goth if u are intrested

http://groups.msn.com/TheSims2Datab...lbellagoth.msnw

That was brilliant. I followed it step by step and feel quite proud of myself as I am technically very challenged! I had 3 families with this problem but now everything is ok. I was just getting impatient with reloading after the 6th time. Up until now that was my usual method too. Thank you very much for helping. Merry Christmas!

Can't you use boolprop testingcheatsenabled?

Yep. When you do, Spawn the Tombstone of L&D. That should allow you to create any age new sim of any gender. You supposedly can even make *anyone* the mother, and *anyone* the father of a pregnancy -- even make a male sim give birth to a child fathered by his wife. Don`t forget to "boolProp testingCheatsEnabled false" right away after spawning. It apparently causes problems if you don`t. The Tobbstone can be used with testing disabled.