Simdulgence Body Hair For Men (23.04.2023)  

The first version of my body hair was created years ago, before the game even had a body hair category. Although I was happy with it at the time, I've been dissatisfied with the art style and wanted to update my body hair for a while now.

This update is not intended to be a a "full suite" of body hair designs, just a single style in a range of body coverage levels. I'd like to potentially add more designs, as well as hair for women.

FEATURES:
1) Includes 5 Chest Hairs, 5 Back Hairs, 3 Arm Hairs and 3 Leg Hairs
2) Enabled for the official Hair Growth system from EP12: High School Years
3) 100% Hand painted for a unique, detailed Maxis-match style
4) Arm hair includes armpits on all styles

HAIR LOCATIONS:
There are four official growth areas: Chest, Back, Arm and Leg. I've grouped my hair as follows:

Chest: all chest hair and pubic hair
Back: all back and buttock hair
Arm: all arm and armpit hair
Leg: all leg hair

NOTES ON HAIR GROWTH:
The HSY pack includes a hair growth system (enabled in CAS), which allows your sim to shave and re-grow body hair. Because I intend this style of hair to be my "default" body hair style, I've enabled it for the growth system.

It mostly follows the game's three official growth stages (Light, Medium, Heavy).
My Chest and Back hair designs include five coverage levels, but only three of each are enabled for hair growth: the first, the middle, and the last. I've made a note of which levels are enabled, and which stage they represent, in the preview pictures.

DEFAULT HAIR HIDER:
I've included a default hair hider file. The file is designed to completely remove the official body hair designs from your game, both in CAS and in-world.

The game appears to be coded to recognize one style of hair for growth. If you use only my hair, the default hider should stop your sim from re-growing Maxis hair designs and cause them to only grow Simdulgence hair designs.

If you have multiple CC body hair which are enabled for hair growth, the game may produce unexpected results when sims grow hair.

AVAILABILITY:
The hair is available for male sims of either frame (masculine and feminine). It is not available for female sims of either frame, because their UV is slightly different and will require some unique texture work.

KNOWN ISSUES:
Body hair can cause some transparency issues where it meets the edges of lighter clothing swatches (especially white). The issue causes visual "gaps" where the hair disappears at the very edge. Unfortunately, this is a base game issue that occurs with official EA body hair and clothing (as illustrated in the pictures above). I've tried to minimize the issue where possible, but if the appearance bothers you the only solution is to use a darker clothing swatch.

FINAL NOTES:
I've tried to make the hair as detailed as possible. In some places where a sim's body bends, or the texture space is small, the detail may be lower quality. There isn't much I can do about that, unfortunately.

If you're using SimpleGens, you should grab today's updated version to fix a minor texture issue on the thighs and improve the appearance of leg hair