[BG] Wearables™ Hearing Aids! ⚡ 7/5/2024 🌀 Now with Earring Compatibility, CCBriekel's Infant Hearing Aids and more!

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⚔️ THIS IS TS4: BASE GAME COMPATIBLE!

☄️ UPDATE NOTES 7/5/2024:

• 💎 This is part of The Wearables™ Collection!
• CCBriekel's Infant Hearing Aids have been rebuilt from the ground up. I decimated LOD 0 to make LOD 1, 2 and 3. Breikel's cover thumbnail remains intact and I've duplicated it to complete the thumbnail set.
• DELETE ALL OF THE OLD PACKAGES!
• The custom CASMenu featured in the screenshots is not available yet, so you'll find the new ones in their "parent" categories: Face > Skin Details and Face Accessories > Piercings.
• SkinDetail Wearables use DimpleLeft and DimpleRight and will replace any custom items that use this OutfitType. EAxis has not used this OutfitType since creating it.
• Piercing Variants use LipRingLeft and LipRingRight and will replace any custom items that use this OutfitType. EAxis has not used this OutfitType since- deja vu?
• Wearables equip to all outfits. Variants are worn individually AND override Wearables. They're configured like this so you can equip a Wearable for all outfits then equip a Variant if you want a different color on a specific outfit. If you want different colors on every outfit, just wear the Variants.
• With the above in mind, there's a caveat. I did not configure these Variants to hide their Wearables, so wearing a Variant over a Wearable causes the Receiver Wire between the Microphone and the Speaker to lose it's transparency. This is because the texture is overlapping on top of itself. This was done intentionally because you may want to wear the Variants without the Wearables but with a different custom item that also uses the DimpleL/R OutfitType that the Wearables use. Get it? Great! Let's crack on!
• For Earring compatibility and to achieve independent Left and Right colors, UV Maps for these Hearing Aids have been modified to use RingIndex and RingMed Left and Right. Yes, FOUR Ring UV slots were cannibalized for this. I did not want to use Bracelets because they are more visible than Rings.
• With the above in mind, each of these Hearing Aids is configured with their appropriate ExcludeFlag to hide the Rings that their UV Map uses, which means you can still wear the Rings with the Hearing Aids but the rings will be invisible. Without the ExcludeFlags, textures would get screwed up on either the Rings or the Hearing Aids because one would override the other. Rings are tiny enough that their visibility is insignificant. With this configuration, you can still get your Crystal Creations ring buffs while wearing these earring-compatible hearing aids.
• The single Left and Right Hearing Aid are now independent of each other. Left uses Dimple/LipRing Left and Right uses Dimple/LipRing Right. You can wear them together to achieve independent colors on each ear. <hip thrust> Piranha Gun! OH YES!
• I've flagged these for the Nude OutfitCategory. If this causes issues in Live, please let me know. I did this because I read some Hearing Aids can be worn in the shower and while swimming.

⚡ PRE-UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENT 7/4/2024:

Wearable Hearing Aids are now part of the The Wearables™ Collection, which includes Occult EyeColors, Hair and Eyebrows, and Glasses, and just about whatever else I feel like tossing under the umbrella (there's FacePaint and some LipGloss too). A CASMenu override is also in the works to give my Wearables™ their own entry in CAS. ♪ I had strings, but now I'm free! There are no strings on me! 👹

Also, I asked CCBriekel about modifying their Infant Hearing Aids conversion and they said YES! 🌸

⚡ PRE-UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENT 5/1/2024:

MAJOR CHANGES COMING in the next update. Not only are we getting earring compatibility, but I'm also hijacking Face Medical Wearables and retooling it for mine own machinations. We're going home, kids! ... with custom thumbnails! YOU ARE NOT PREPARED! <cackles maniacally> 😹

RELEASE NOTES:

🚀 Cheesed under Update 4/16/2024 - PC: 1.106.148.1030 / Mac: 1.106.148.1230

☄️ As a Standalone item it should be compatible with future game updates.

⚙️ These are .ZIP archives that can be opened with Windows Explorer on Windows and Finder on Mac. Simply toss the extracted files into your Mods folder.

⚙️ Outfit Safety is ❌ IMPOSSIBLE with custom Standalone items.

🧬 These are part of my "PERFECTION" collection. All resources are referenced with only the bare minimum embedded to achieve the smallest file size possible. In the future I may replace these files with traditional EMBEDDED files to remove the EAxis dependency for longevity.

🥴 The files included in this .ZIP are named differently than the files shared via my GDrive, but rest assured they're the same files. Don't keep both sets in your Mods folder because they'll just override each other and cause chaos. I changed the names proactively for the shift from PERFECTION to EMBEDDED.

🌀 I'm looking into making these Earring Compatible and doing Color Overlays. No promises but maybe some updates Soon™. I did some cheeky things to make this work that potentially limits how much I can expand on it, but I'm gonna try nevertheless.

DESCRIPTION:
These are Standalone clones of the EAxis Hearing Aid accessory for Toddler, Child and Teen+ converted to 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 it functions 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 promise anything.

These Wearables are configured to HIDE equipped 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. I'd like 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.

These Wearables 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've released this with no custom thumbnails. I'd like to do a custom thumbnail but I might just embed EAxis' thumbnails. This mod wasn't planned and I've never had a custom "creator thumbnail" so I had none available for release, sorry.

OUTFIT SAFETY:

Not much more to say that wasn't already said in the Release Notes. If you remove these packages, the item will be removed from your sim.

Cheers! Happy Simming!
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