A Quick and Dirty tut on dehairifying stuff.
Find your hat. I mostly work off of Store meshes since they are nice, and it's not going to hurt anyone's feelings if I alter the files. It's important that you ask a creator before dehairifying their stuff, because that's just common courtesy.
Open TSRW, choose New. When the box pops up, choose New Import. Navigate to your .package or .sims3pack that you want to modify. If you are using store items, make sure they are decrapified. (Go here to learn how to do it). Be sure to change the drop down from .tsrw to .package or .sims3pack or else you won't see your file.
Once everything loads, make a new folder somewhere to store all the files you will need. Go to the mesh tab and choose "Very High Level of detail", then click the little box with the red arrow. Most hat-hairs have two groups, so make sure you double click the pop up and save both accordingly. These two files are your meshes, one is the hair part and one is the hat part.
Go to the textures tab and export the multipler (main texture), overlay(if there is one), mask, and specular. When exporting, name the file what it is so you don't get confused.
Open Milkshape, and import your .wso hat meshes. It helps if you have a sim body open to fit the hat if need be I always fit the hat as if the sim were bald because some hats float other wise.
(This step is only necessary if you want your hat to work with aWT's hat sliders.) Get rid of everything except the hat mesh in Milkshape, and then select your whole hat. Go to the Joints tab, and click "Clear". Then on the list look for "b_Hat_Grip", make sure it is selected in the list. Below the list you will see some drop down menus with some colorful slider things. On the dropdown, select "b_Hat_Grip" again and then next to the color slider put "100". Then click assign. If you check the "Show Joints as Colors" box, your hat should be either green or or purple. Export your new mesh, and name it something different.
Open up a new TSRW, and select New. Choose "Accessories" and navigate to a basegame accessory. You can then go and import your mesh over the EA one, and your textures in the appropriate places. Make sure you look through the "Project" tab and check all the right boxes for Clothing categories and such. Please disable "Valid for Random" if it is checked, because accessories on random can really slow people's games down. Also make sure the right ages and genders are selected.
At the top of TSRW select Edit->Project Contents. From there, on the pop up click Export->As Package, this way you have a package version of your hat. You can also go to File->Export->Sims3pack if you choose to have a Sims3pack.
That's really all there is to it. If you have a basic understanding of TSRW you should have no problems with this process.
If you have questions, please feel free to ask, just don't do it on anon, or it will be ignored.
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