(TW Preg Loss themes) New features for add-on 7 (Patreon)

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PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE Trigger Warning IF THE Trigger Warning of Pregnancy Loss applies to you!

I'm sorry about having not been great about tagging this in some previous posts.

I take these topics seriously, and I apologize for the lack of tagging up until now. My cousin almost lost her life in a situation like this, and her dream of having children is now permanently jeopardized from the health consequences of it, so I have a sense of how this can be terribly difficult for someone to go through and why the trigger warnings can matter. I'll try to do better with putting warnings in the future.

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Hello everyone,

Sorry for all the posts lately, 

Since many of you asked about similar matters:

Just wanted to walk you through the latest feature I made to add to the AddOn 7 (pregnancy Loss) and inquire about your feedback if any. It took me a bit of time to decide exactly what I wanted to do regarding the unborn sim children and how to represent them in the world after a miscarriage. But today I finally found exactly how I wanted to do this and made it. I didn't want to do the exact same thing other mods do, and I wanted it to feel more like gameplay and show more the emotional permanence of a lost pregnancy. So this is my compromise, it's small in the game, and I hope it will give more depth to your sims' experiencing of this tragic event:

- So, the lost pregnancy will result in an urn added to inventory and labeled for an Unborned Child. From the urn, the Sim can name the unborn child, mourn, write an epitaph.

The Sim also initially appears the same way in the family tree (unless you use the extra option to disable family tree integration).

If your Sim decides to name the child, a window to type the name appears:

Once it has been named, the urn and the family tree will both reflect the addition of the name.

Since this involves messing with the family tree, I want it well-tested before giving it to you all (I am not expecting issues since the code for this is very similar to code I have in the adoption module and which has proven to be stable, but I like to be careful). If you want to test it, you can let me know on the Patron's channel on discord and I'm happy to share!

I will strive to make the 'pretty and official' release post for the v2.7 update as soon as possible (because the current post is a bit of a mess) and write the documentation, but in the meantime do feel free to ask any question! The info isn't fully written up out there yet so I'm happy to answer you!

A good day / night,
Lumpinou