Beekeeper Hat Updo Variant (F; T, YA, A)

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It always irked me that the Sims 3 only included one beekeeper hat hairstyle. I found it immersion-breaking when my long-haired Sims would suddenly sport a shorter hairstyle for when they would use the beekeeping box, which would instantly grow back to their preferred length after they were done with it.

Seeing as nobody else had made a long hair variant of the beekeeper hat hair, I decided to figure out it how to do it myself. I have no prior experience with 3D meshes, but I was able to get the updo hairstyle to work with the beekeeper hat. It's available for female teens, young adults, and adults.

Shaders aren't the same as the original beekeeper hat, but I always found the weird shadows of the original beekeeper hat distracting anyway (fixed on 2025/05/16).

Tools Used
  • s3pe (for creating packages and importing resources into them and editing their chunk entries)
  • s3oc (used to clone CAS parts for extracting their resources with its above sister project)
  • TSRW 2.0.88 (used to create CAS parts from existing ones and export them as Sims3Packs)
  • Delphy's Sims 3 Pack Multi-Extracter (used to convert the Sims3Packs exported by TSRW into .package files)
  • Blender 2.79 (used to edit the meshes and realign their UV maps)
  • Milkshape 3D (used to combine groups and add extra data to the meshes so that they didn't show up as pitch black in-game; also used to convert the .simgeom files into .obj files to import into Blender, and to convert the .obj files exported by Blender into .wso files to import into TSRW)
  • GIMP (used to edit DDS textures extracted from the reference CAS parts to align with the UV maps of the new CAS part meshes)
  • Meshing Toolkit (used to assign bones to and create morphs for the new CAS part meshes)
  • SimGeom MTNF and TGI Editor (used to change the shaders of the new CAS part meshes for transparency)
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