🚧 [BG] Wearables™ Hearing Aids for Base Game are about to get it's own post again.
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Medical Wearables Hearing Aids is now part of The Wearables™ Collection HERE!
I will likely dissolve this post in the future.
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RELEASE NOTES:
⚔️ This is TS4: Base Game compatible!
🚀 Cheesed under Update 4/16/2024 - PC: 1.106.148.1030 / Mac: 1.106.148.1230
⚙️ There is ❌ NO Outfit Safety with custom Standalone items.
⚙️ The Google Drive Folder contains individual .PACKAGE files for all items. These can be tossed into your Mods folder directly after downloading. Google Drive's batch download option will give you a .ZIP archive. Windows Explorer on Windows and Finder on Mac can open .ZIP archives. Simply toss the extracted .PACKAGE files into your Mods folder.
🧬 These are part of my "PERFECTION" collection; Standalone cloned and re-categorized items that reference all resources and embed only the bare minimum to achieve the smallest file size possible. They rely on EAxis NOT screwing with their resources. In the future I may replace these PERFECTION files with EMBEDDED files to remove the EAxis dependency.
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ANECDOTE:
This isn't something I had any designs on doing. I, like some other simmers assumed this was impossible, but while assisting a friend with their kid's Occult Eyes issue I stumbled upon something.
That something resulted in Wearable Vampire Occult Eyes to band-aid my friend's yet unresolved issue and opened the door to Wearable Hearing Aids.
DESCRIPTION:
You can read the original Work-In-Progress Updates and Release Notes on Reddit.
These are Standalone clones of the EAxis Hearing Aid accessory converted into Body Medical Wearables. Equipping these on any given outfit equips them to all outfits automatically.
The downside of turning these things into Wearables is that you lose the ability to customize color per outfit. Essentially they function like hair color; changing the color on one outfit changes the color for all outfits. I'm looking into Color Overlays but I can't guarantee anything.
Apart from Color Overlays I also want to make these compatible with earrings. There's an issue with the way these Wearables were done that I need to resolve or workaround before I can do the necessary UV Map edits for earring compatibility. Earring compatibility has already been achieved for the EAxis accessory earrings by Saruin HERE. Until I'm able to achieve it here, these Wearables will remain configured to hide earrings. You can still wear earrings with them but you won't visibly see the earrings. Hearing Aids use the same UV Space as earrings, meaning textures will go wonky if earrings are not hidden.
The items appear in CAS under Body > Medical Wearables in order of HearingAids, HearingAidL(eft), and HearingAidR(ight). I refined all Display Indexes. It's not hard to figure out which is which but I'm making a point to state it because I launched this with no custom thumbnails. I'd like to do a custom thumbnail but I might just embed EAxis' thumbnails. I've never done a custom "creator thumbnail" before so I had none available, sorry. Creating one before has never really been a priority for me. I've always got something else on mine mind.
I did some cheeky, cheesy things to make this work. Some of it is standard fare, some of it I've not seen done before. It potentially limits how much I can expand on this but I'm gonna try nevertheless. I'll do a full write-up at some point detailing how I did this.
OUTFIT SAFETY:
There's nothing more to be said that hasn't been said in the Release Notes above. There is ❌ NO Outfit Safety with custom Standalone items.
