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Has anyone ever did something with that? it could be nice.
Great discovery. And that site Cutting Room Floor is also great, I've only recently encountered it.
Might as well throw in this list of unused Maxis stuff made functional by @kirlicues:
Unused resources for belly piercings in The Sims 2 base game
I could not find this in The Cutting Room Floor, so here's some info. I noticed one of the models years ago but only looked for more resources recently. I'm not a 3D artist, so forgive me if I say something nonsensical (and correct me in a comment!).
This is a list of the resources I could find:
The meshes are incomplete in the sense that they are not assigned to any bones, and they appear at floor level, near the auskel joint.
There were at least two types planned, "ring" and "post". The mesh for the post is separated into two groups: "uuaccessorybellybuttonpost_gold" for the metallic part, and "uuaccessorybellybuttonpost_red" for the plastic/stones part. The ring only has one group, "gold".
The material definition files for the "gold" groups reference "shineymetal2" and "nightreflection2-envcube" as the base texture and cube map texture respectively. The "red" group doesn't reference any textures, so maybe it was meant to look like translucent red glass.
There are thumbnail cameras specifically for the piercings. By the names we can guess that they were planned for teens and adults (maybe elders too?).
I'm not sure why they weren't implemented, my only guess is they could not find a way to avoid clipping or warping during sim animations. Although if the meshes didn't even have bone assignments, maybe they didn't reach that stage in testing. Who knows.
It could be possible to restore these, you would probably need to make separate meshes for each life stage, gender and body shape.