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Update: Body Hair + Gender Options
🕑 Added 2022-08-03 20:11:32 +0000 UTCThere are a couple of changes in this update, so I'm going to try to keep my explanations clear and brief.
1) I've changed the default gender options for my body hair.
I originally opted to make the body hair available based on frame, rather than sex. For example, chest hair was available to male sims and female sims if they had a masculine frame.
I've decided this was the wrong approach, so now body hair is available based on sex rather than frame. For example, chest hair is available to a male sim with a masculine or feminine frame.
I'm open to changing it again based on feedback, but for now I believe this to be the better way to do it.
2) Female sims now have the same arm/leg hair options as male.
Since the designs appear to look good on sims of either sex, I've made the arm and leg hair designs available for female sims too.
The arm and leg hair have been added to the female body hair package; you don't need the male version for these to show up.
Based on previous feedback about sex/gender, I've disabled arm and leg hair from showing up on randomly generated female sims. You can manually add it to sims in CAS.
3) An armpit hair texture issue has been fixed.
Male and female sims have slightly different texture layouts (this layout affects how the texture appears on the body). The most noticeable differences are in the armpit and groin areas.
If a female sim uses male armpit hair, or a male sim uses female armpit hair, the hair shows up wrong - like in the preview image at the top of the post. Each sex needs to use an armpit hair that was designed for their unique texture layout.
I've fixed this as part of the overall update (it's one of the reasons I've changed body hair availability to be based on sex).
4) I've added a body hair gender unlocker.
If you want a female sim with stereotypically male chest/pubic hair or butt hair, or a male sim with stereotypically female pubic hair, you'll want the gender unlocker zip file.
The gender unlocker addon makes all chest/pubic/butt hair available to all sims, regardless of their sex or frame.
Arm and leg hair are unaffected by the unlocker, because male and female sims have their own version of each.
If you use the unlocker, PLEASE BE AWARE: this will stop randomization of chest/butt hair for your sims. When chest hair is enabled for both male and female sims, there is no clean way to make chest hair show up on random male sims but not show up on random female sims. I chose to turn it off for both sexes. (If you don't use the unlocker, chest/butt hair randomization will use the default behavior).
Hair designs won't always look completely right on the opposite frame, because of the texture layout differences I described above, but many of them look good.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:
I'm not trying to enforce a gender binary, or uphold traditional expectations of beauty, with my body hair decisions. The game's gender/sex options are more advanced than previous games, but it's not as sophisticated as it would need to be to offer better choices.
I hope none of my choices come across as disrespectful or exclusionary; they're based on previous user feedback and the framework/technical limitations of the game.
I'm open to making changes in future as necessary.
Comments
Simdulgence
Yes, the default behavior for my body hair designs is: Male torso/back/arm/leg hair - randomized Female torso hair - randomized Female arm/leg hair - not randomized Barring major complaints, that's probably how I'll approach my future body hair designs too. The official TS3 and TS4 body hair designs all stop at the waist. I'm not surprised, given the game censors nudity so hair below the waist wouldn't normally be seen. I can't speak for what's going to happen with the WW systems with regards to integration. I think at one point I started adding my body hair designs to that system, but now that we have actual CAS slots I probably wouldn't do that. I hadn't made any plans to extend the official Maxis torso hair options, because I don't really care for the look of their designs. If I get a lot of requests for it, I'll consider it.
omglaserspewpew
Does this randomize pubic hair for ladies? I’m a bit confused on the status quo for body hair now; there’s official body hair and growth, but the belly hair doesn’t have actual pubic hair and there’s an obvious seam. Wicked Whims still has its old system and I’m not sure how it interacts with the new official system. Is EA’s system going to get ignored? What about the new shaving animations? Ideally I’d have the male body hair fixed and have sim ladies randomize with pubic hair and (sometimes) armpit hair, and then slowly grow arm and leg hair.
