Male Body Hair (Patreon)

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 new suite of body hair offers a more realistic set of hair for your sims.

FEATURES:
1) Includes 10 Chest Hairs, 6 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.

CHANGELOG:
2024-07-22: Made chest and back hair available to female sims with a masculine frame.
2024-06-05: Fixed incorrect flags that were interfering with the body hair growth system. All hair growth stages across all hair designs should now work correctly.
2024-02-08: Added an optional file to add the body hair to WW's pubic hair selector in game. This allows you to add a body hair in Live mode. The add-on currently contains the "natural" colors available in WW; I may add the other colors in a future update, depending on other projects and user demand.
2024-01-16: Added two new chest/pubic hair designs, as seen in the final preview picture. The first style comes in two levels of coverage and the second style comes in three levels of coverage, for five new chest hair options in total. Altered thumbnails for pubic-only styles to better show off those designs (you may need to clear your localthumbcache.package file to see the new thumbnails).
2023-11-29: Made several changes, including:
- Added hair to the upper backside of the scrotum to correct gaps in existing butt hair (shown in the last preview picture). This extra bit of hair will ONLY show on SimplePenis 2.0 due to the changes in UV maps.
- Added a NEW body hair for the back, featuring hair just around the butt crack and taint but no hair on the butt cheeks. This style is designed to bridge the gap between the default hairless option and my first butt hair option (light hair on the butt cheeks).
- Changed the thumbnails of two existing back hair choices to reflect that they have butt hair and no hair on the back.
2023-05-03: Fixed an issue causing chest hair to incorrectly show up for female AND male sims.