Talk:Trait (The Sims 4)

Differences between CAS previews and CAS demos
The CAS have undergone several changes from the older previews (such as the IGN video How To Create Your Perfect Sims in The Sims 4) and the recent CAS Demo video by SimsVIP I just watched. The trait icon for Lazy has been changed, and the Mean-Spirited trait has been renamed into Mean. Reward traits are no longer shown on the tooltip when you mouseover the aspiration. The aspiration icon for Popularity has been changed as well.

Also I've screencapped each of the walk styles from the preview video, but the demo has added two more walk styles and I have to do it all over again, sigh. Hopefully SimsVIP would write more details about these, or we could wait until the demo is released commercially.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  06:09, July 9, 2014 (UTC)

Codenames for traits
It might be good to have the codenames for each trait. Or at least the non-obvious ones. The general rule is that the codenames are written in what's known as CamelCode e.g. if you want to add the Gym Rat trait you'd type: GymRat e.g. traits.equip_trait GymRat

But this rule wasn't applied consistently and uniformly. For example some of the traits randomly have underscores in the middle (which is a hateful thing that programmers sometimes do to trip novice programmers up) Business_Savvy High_metabolism Quick_Learner web_Master

Moreover if you type in: traits.equip_trait Poetic it won't do anything because the codename is actually POET. Long Lived is actually LONGEVITY. Angler's Tranquility = AnglersTranquility so if someone types in: traits.equip_trait Angler'sTranquility (NB apostrophe in the middle) it won't work and it may well be difficult to understand *why* it didn't work. (This is very typical in computer programming - programming can be a massive pain in the *** to do because 1 character out of place can break your programme and the computer won't say why it's broken.) I wiped out my traits by mistake (and very easily) simply by modifying traits quickly using the CAS editor and then had to add them back manually. It was hard to get Poetic back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.165.251 (talk • contribs) 19:21, November 9, 2014 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~