Hidden Traits Revealed

[Leto85]

Hidden Traits Revealed


I was searching for ages (okey, simdays) to find a way to reveal the hidden traits of a sim. Normally you could only see if your sim has one by making the sim doing the interaction that belongs to the trait, such as sneaking somewhere for sims with the burglar hidden trait.
But now, with Generations there is a much easier way to see the hidden traits of a sim.

1 Turn on the cheat: Testingcheatsenabled true.
2 Than Shift+Click the sim with a hidden trait.
3 Choose the option: Edit Sim in Create a Sim.
4 Change the age of the sim: Toddler, Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult or Elder.
5 A popup on the right side of the screen will give the following information: Younger Sims cannot select as many traits. The following traits have been removed:' followed by a selection of traits, hidden traits and Lifetime Rewards that has been removed from your sim.
Click the X button to go back to your sim without having a trait removed.


In the image below you can see that the game makes no difference between what we call as either Traits, Hidden Traits or Lifetime Rewards.





In the image below I have shown a sim who do have the three hidden traits from all foreign countries that came with World Adventures: Chinese, Egyptian and French. She does eat with chopsticks mostly and she can sing two songs from China and two from Egypt. Though, the game doesn't seem to calculate foreign hidden traits as hidden traits as you can see in the following picture:




EDIT: 28-10-2011. This doesn't work anymore after installing Pets.

[pallyndrome]

This sounds cool Leto, but both of those images are too small to read the writing. Can you zoom it in for me?

[Leto85]

This sounds cool Leto, but both of those images are too small to read the writing. Can you zoom it in for me?

How can I zoom in?

[pallyndrome]

hmmm well I would do it with a program like photoshop, but that's a little difficult.
If I squint I can make out a few words or lines now that I concentrate extra hard, so don't worry too much about it unless others come up with a better way of zooming in

[Leto85]

hmmm well I would do it with a program like photoshop, but that's a little difficult.
If I squint I can make out a few words or lines now that I concentrate extra hard, so don't worry too much about it unless others come up with a better way of zooming in

Ah yes, of course I could (and did) use Photoshop. I've already changed it Pallyn and added it to the first topic so it looks like you didn't read it well before you've posted. (hehe)
I thought you mean zooming in within the forum.

[jessiethedog]

Wow, that's quite the multiskilled sim! Very interesting, Leto!

[kiko94]

thanks for the info leto

[VampirePlasma]

My sim has the Rocker trait apparently, she is always playing air guitar. That might be a good way of checking if she does.

[samoht04]

I just saw this in my game as well. Although I was suprised. I was getting a YA Copy of an Elder from another Household in my Legacy Save File, she was related to the main bloodline, so when it said 'Makes no Messes' has been removed I was suprised because I had exported the main family to a new Save File and lost the original Maid so it carried on through the save files.

[CarlosLordofTacos]

Leto, you genius!

[VampirePlasma]

Hah, yeah she has the rocker trait! Thanks Leto!

[TheChronicR]

Totally correct and very neatly done with zooming in, Leto! Cool way to find out what traits your Sim does, or doesn't have.

[Leto85]

Thanks for the compliments guys. I'm glad you all could use this topic.

I will make it sticky for a while to let as much people see this as possible. I know a lot of you can use this.

[Widonja]

  I never understood these hidden traits... can you get them with a certain action? Is a sim already born with them? If I age up my toddler up to elder and then back to toddler, will I get the hidden traits, he will get? Can you explain hidden traits for me? :$ sorry, never understood them

[samoht04]

A hidden trait is unlocked normally through an NPC. So an NPC Fireman, the ones from the phone, if your Sim was to marry and reproduce with said NPC Fireman the Child has the chance of inheriting one of the Hidden Traits (A Bonus Trait that is hidden), Pyromaniac (Can cause flames to flare but not actually start a fire) or Immune to Fire (Never dies in Fire). Hidden traits have to be inherited. A Maid gives the trait, Makes no Messes, which is really usefull.

Here is the Link to the Guide Page on Hidden Traits.