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Trait Mapping

Prerequisites

  1. Install Sims 4 Studio

Exporting Traits

  1. Open Sims 4 Studio
  2. Content Management > Merge Packages
  3. Drag and drop all .package files from the mod
  4. Click Merge
  5. Save as -merged
  6. Open the merged.package in Sims 4 Studio
  7. Click the "Type" column to sort by Type
  8. Click the first "Trait Tuning" and Shift + Click to select all of the "Trait Tuning" rows]
  9. Click Batch Export button at the bottom
  10. Create a new folder with a name like "SomeModTraits"
  11. The File name will say Export.binary, leave that as-is and click "Save" in that folder
  12. Once its completed, there should be a bunch of XML files in this directory
  13. Go back in Sims 4 Studio and find the "String Table" type of English and select it
  14. In the right window, select the "Text" tab to view the JSON of the string table
  15. Highlight all the text with CTRL + A and copy this text to your clipboard with CTRL + C
  16. In the folder where you saved the XML, right click > New > Text Document > any name is OK
  17. Open the text document in notepad
  18. Paste the JSON into the text document
  19. File > Save As > Change Save as type: All Files (.) > File name: strings.json
  20. make sure its strings.json or else it wont work
  21. Click Save
  22. Now you are ready to map the traits in the Sentient Sims App image

Mapping Traits

  1. Open the Sentient Sims App
  2. Enable the debug menu with CTRL + SHIFT + D
  3. Open the Traits tab
  4. Paste the folder path where you extracted the files into 'S4tk Extracted Path'
  5. Click 'Load'
  6. It should now show the total number of traits and how many are unmapped Trait Details - 112 / 1489 - Unmapped: 56
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