Please report any objects that are not giving out emotional auras in here. To trigger a moodlet, the aura needs to be at least +3. +2 items don't give out moodlets and you need to enhance them by placing another item that gives the same emotional aura. I'm listing all of them as reported. Career Rewards with only +2 emotional Aura (aka not bugged) Milton Word Processor Computer Hard Drive reward Duffle o' Bag Rock of Ages Retro Stereo Umber Kitchen Sink Nerves of Steel Desk Lamp Door of Perception Objects that have discrepancy between aura given and text The Sentinel Astro Model Rocket Stack of CDs Hidden Bookcase Door Captain Rodrigo de Pablo Cask Space Prints: Standard Space, I Dream of Pleiosaur, Seeing Red, Star Crossed Lovers, Big Star, Cloudy Vision, Animal Planet, Out of This World, End of Time, Rosie the Riueting. Crystals Aliens Microscope Prints Gummy and the "Captain Fishbones" Bonefish The Diligent Doctor's Desk --> Gives out aura although there's no option to enable/disable and no hint of it in the text Cow Plant --> Gives out aura although there's no option to enable/disable and no hint of it in the text The Out of This World Desktop -> Gives out aura although there's no option to enable/disable and no hint of it in the text Emotional Masterpieces have an emotional aura of 6 when it is listed as 9 on the description Lump of Clay has an emotional aura of 3 when crafted into an emotional sculpture Retail Counters Items that are missing enable/disable option Up Against the Wall Light BluScreen 88D Alert Light: Mounted Fish --> Does give out aura anyways. Could be by design Flying Saucer Table Lamp Proceed with Caution Table Lamp Brightest Night Flood Light Defeat the Darkness Surgical Light Interrogation Illumination Retro, PI Lamp Items giving wrong emotion Pre-Owned Painter's Easel gives off a focus moodlet instead of inspired. Misc issues Hover text for disabling aura is off for certain items that can't actually be viewed.

Regarding Collectibles (For base game only.) I also didn't test cloned collectibles and ones bought from a retail lot. I didn't test elements acquired from the analyzer. I didn't test metals and crystals that can be obtained from science career co-workers. I only tested collectibles my Sim found. MySims Trophies: I tested most of the MySims trophies. I discovered all MySims trophies give off a playful emotional aura of 3. The only one I didn't test is Violet. All give off the correct emotional aura in my game. @greenxen Crystals: I tested all crystals except Amerthyst and Jet. I discovered the crystals have either an energizing emotional aura of 2 or 3. The either the crystals or text description of the crystals are bugged. The crystals with an emotional aura of 2 in the description are giving off an emotional aura of 3. The crystals with an emotional aura of 3 in the description are giving off an emotional aura of 2. The emotional aura in the description and the one the crystals actually give off don't match. Fish: I tested all mounted fish execept Wolf Eel, AnglerFish, Batfish, and Piranha. I discovered all mounted fish give off an emotional aura of 2, 3, or 4. Mounted fish give the emotional aura but don't have the menu option to enable/disable the aura. All fish give the aura listed in the description except the Gummy and the "Captain Fishbones" Bonefish. Both of these fish have an emotional aura of 2 in the description but they give off an emotional aura of 3. This needs to be fixed. @Crystal_Talian Space Prints: I tested all of the prints in the collection. I discovered that all space prints are supposed to give off an confident emotional aura of 7. The following prints actually give off an emotional aura of 2 so you will need more than one of them to benefit from the aura: Standard Space, I Dream of Pleiosaur, Seeing Red, Star Crossed Lovers, Big Star, Cloudy Vision, Animal Planet, Out of This World, End of Time, Rosie the Riueting. Surfacing, Bottle Stars, and Twinkle give off an emotional aura of 3. EA needs to either fix the emotional aura level for these prints or the description. None of the prints are giving off the correct emotional aura. Elements: I tested most of the elements. I discovered all elements give off a focusing emotional aura of 3. The only ones I didn't test are Oxypin, Plathium, Cytacoo, and Plumbobus. All give off the correct emotional aura in my game. Postcards: I tested all of the postcards. I discovered all postcards give off an inspiring emotional aura of 3. All give off the correct emotional aura in my game. @pisces_foo Microscope Prints: I tested all of the microscopic prints. I discovered all prints are supposed to give off a focusing emotional aura of 3, 4, 6, or 9. All of the prints give off an emotional aura of 2 except Leaf Meat and Crystal Place. These prints are giving off an emotional aura of 3. None of the prints are giving off the correct emotional aura.

Regarding Career Rewards @glamafonic @Sentaku @TheR286 @luthienrising Milton Word Processor reward only has an emotional aura of 2. Objects need an emotional aura of 3 or more to give a moodlet. The object works fine in my game when I place two of them. Have you tried placing two of them in your game? @nualla_6109 The Stainless Steel Auto Pot has been fixed. there is no longer an option to enable an emotional aura. @Lulzes Can you please let me know what energized objects you have in the room? @TridiannComputer Hard Drive reward only has an emotional aura of 2. Objects need an emotional aura of 3 or more to give a moodlet. The object works fine in my game when I place two of them. Have you tried placing two of them in your game? @hedgekat It seems like The Sentinel, Astro Model Rocket, Stack of CDs, Hidden Bookcase Door, Door of Perception, and Captain Rodrigo de Pablo Cask have bugs. The emotional aura in the text which is 2 is wrong or the aura the object is giving off the wrong which is 3. @greenxen Duffle o' Bag reward only has an emotional aura of 2. Objects need an emotional aura of 3 or more to give a moodlet. The object works fine in my game when I place two of them. Have you tried placing two of them in your game? Regarding the hover text: This text appears on all aura objects after you enable them and you hover over the "disable" option. The objects still give off their respective emotional auras. It might be a textual error. You should probably add this to your texual error post. Nerves of Steel Desk Lamp reward only has an emotional aura of 2. Objects need an emotional aura of 3 or more to give a moodlet. The object works fine in my game when I place two of them. Have you tried placing two of them in your game? @dolldrms1 Rock of Ages Retro Stereo reward only has an emotional aura of 2. Objects need an emotional aura of 3 or more to give a moodlet. The object works fine in my game when I place two of them. Have you tried placing two of them in your game? Umber Kitchen Sink reward only has an emotional aura of 2. Objects need an emotional aura of 3 or more to give a moodlet. The object works fine in my game when I place two of them. Have you tried placing two of them in your game?

Merged all the threads in here. I've ask Grant about this and he said that you should not need to use it for it to work but only the most powerful one does. So if you have more than one object, you need to disable the rest. In my own experience it sometimes takes a moment to kick in too.

As reported in another thread (http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Hi-easel-give-focus-now-not-inspired-mood/m-p/5008030#M18003) the Pre-Owned Painter's Easel gives off a focus moodlet instead of inspired. This the description of the easel: When enabled, my Sims should have a moodlet change because it is has an inspiring level greater than two. My Sim ends up with the focused moodlet:

The Diligent Doctor's Desk gives off a focused moodlet when two are in the same room. The description of the object doesn't state it gives off an emotional aura: Each desk gives off an emotional aura of 2.: There is no option to enable/disable the emotional aura. Same for the Out of This World Desktop. It emits a focused aura of 8.

crinrict

Hero+

10 years ago

[ARCHIVED] Objects not giving out emotional aura

Please report any objects that are not giving out emotional auras in here.

To trigger a moodlet, the aura needs to be at least +3. +2 items don't give out moodlets and you need to enhance them by placing another item that gives the same emotional aura.

I'm listing all of them as reported.

Career Rewards with only +2 emotional Aura (aka not bugged)

Milton Word Processor
Computer Hard Drive reward
Duffle o' Bag
Rock of Ages Retro Stereo
Umber Kitchen Sink
Nerves of Steel Desk Lamp
Door of Perception

Objects that have discrepancy between aura given and text

The Sentinel
Astro Model Rocket
Stack of CDs
Hidden Bookcase Door
Captain Rodrigo de Pablo Cask
Space Prints: Standard Space, I Dream of Pleiosaur, Seeing Red, Star Crossed Lovers, Big Star, Cloudy Vision, Animal Planet, Out of This World, End of Time, Rosie the Riueting.
Crystals
Aliens
Microscope Prints
Gummy and the "Captain Fishbones" Bonefish
The Diligent Doctor's Desk --> Gives out aura although there's no option to enable/disable and no hint of it in the text
Cow Plant --> Gives out aura although there's no option to enable/disable and no hint of it in the text
The Out of This World Desktop -> Gives out aura although there's no option to enable/disable and no hint of it in the text
Emotional Masterpieces have an emotional aura of 6 when it is listed as 9 on the description
Lump of Clay has an emotional aura of 3 when crafted into an emotional sculpture
Retail Counters

Items that are missing enable/disable option

Up Against the Wall Light
BluScreen 88D Alert Light:
Mounted Fish --> Does give out aura anyways. Could be by design
Flying Saucer Table Lamp
Proceed with Caution Table Lamp
Brightest Night Flood Light
Defeat the Darkness Surgical Light
Interrogation Illumination
Retro, PI Lamp

Items giving wrong emotion

Pre-Owned Painter's Easel gives off a focus moodlet instead of inspired.

Misc issues

Hover text for disabling aura is off for certain items that can't actually be viewed.

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canelacaliente
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
The collectibles I reported on are probably text errors on the object's description in live mode. I added them to my thread on text errors (http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/canelacaliente-Various-Text-Errors/m-p/5186298/highlight/false) to see if I can get a response on these. All the objects I reported on do give out an emotional aura. If they fix the errors in the live mode text, then the problem will be rectified and there would no longer be player confusion. All the text within the game would match.
canelacaliente
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
This is my latest update in the game. I didn't want to edit my other post because I want to keep my updates in a format I can follow.

Craftables

Photographs: The photographs in the game are assigned an emotional aura based on Sim that the picture is taken of. For example, if my Sim takes a picture of a flirty Sim, the picture will have a flirty ambiance. The auras attached to photographs include (based on what I tested): sad, flirty, angry, focused, confident and playful. The level of the ambiance is based on the quality of the picture. Poor: 2 Normal: 4 Outstanding: 6.

This picture shows my Sim is in the room with photographs that have an sadness ambiance and hasn't earned a sad moodlet. There are several photographs in the room with the same ambiance and no moodlet is earned. Even if my Sim views the photographs, they still do not get a moodlet from them.

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This picture shows there is no option to enabled/disable an emotional aura on photographs:

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Copies of Craftables

When copies of painting and mathematical diagrams are made, the copy is of a less quality and emits a lesser emotional aura but the emotional aura in the description of the painting/diagram has not changed. (I can't test if photographs are affected because they are bugged and do not give off an emotional aura in the game.)

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Collectibles

Crystals: Nitelite [GTW] currently gives off the correct emotional aura.

Aliens: The ones I have tested so far don't give off a confident emotional aura. I will continue to test them and update with more information.

I got a reply back from my other thread (http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/canelacaliente-Various-Text-Errors/m-p/5183010#U5183010). The differences in the text of the emotional aura levels are not text errors but rather tuning errors. A simple change of the text won't fix the issue.

@SimGuruRusskii wrote:

That would be something i can forward design to look at, it seems like a tuning issue, not a text issue.
Thanks!
canelacaliente
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
@greenxenIt is nice to know someone else is testing this in their game.

Crystals

Have you tried placing two of the crystals that say they have a level 3 emotional aura? You should get the moodlet then. Even though you do get the moodlet, they are still wrong.

Emotional Aura System

It isn't really a theory. The SimGurus confirmed that the auras build upon each other and the stronger the aura the more it drowns out other moodlets. Maybe you can put a thread in the official forums asking the SimGurus to expand the Environment Effects Lesson on emotional auras as well as asking them to fix the various grammar errors🙂.

The lesson basically just tells players to experiment.

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What I Found From Experimenting

The auras take up a 9 block space around the Sim.

Sims cannot be affected from the aura when they walk into another room because walls and doorways block the auras.

Emotional auras need to be 3 or greater to have an effect

If you have an object that is 6 and an object that is 9 with different emotional auras, the object that is 9 is supposed to overpower the object with 6. Therefore your Sim will take on the emotion of the object that is 9. For masterpieces, I enabled the emotional masterpiece and a different emotional aura of an object that was 7. The emotion of the masterpiece did not overtake the emotional aura of the object that was 7 so the emotional aura of the masterpiece has to be 6.

If you choose two different emotional auras of the same level, the same will take on the one that is activated first ignoring the one that was activated last.

Emotional auras do build upon each other. Having multiple objects with the same emotional aura builds upon the emotion.
canelacaliente
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
I think these are the last of them. I don't have the other EPs or SPs to test.

Collectibles

Crystals: The two crystals from GTW give off an emotional aura in the game and work as stated in their description. No need to add them to the list.

I was able to get diamond and plumbite. They don't give off the emotional aura as stated in the description. It has the same problem as the other base game crystals. Diamond gives off an emotional aura of 3 while blumbite gives off an emotional aura of 2:

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MySims Trophies: I was able to find Zombie Carl, Goth Boy, and Tobor. These trophies give off the correct emotional aura. No need to add to the list.

Aliens: This doesn't give off the moodlet at all. No matter what I try I can't get the moodlet.

Shows up with same emotional aura in build, debug, and live mode.

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Also, there is no option to enable/disable the emotional aura:

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Build Mode Objects

Retail Counters: I am unable to get the emotional aura as stated in the object's description. Also, there is no option to enable/disable the emotional aura.

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canelacaliente
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
The object below has an emotional aura of 2 in the description but functions like it has an emotional aura of 3. Only one is needed to get the emotional aura effect:

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Gardening

Roses no longer give out a flirty emotional aura
BryonyRae
Hero (Retired)
9 years ago
Sims created paintings with emotional auras lose their emotional component when saved in a room or lot to the Library/Gallery.

Painting with aura:

Same painting after placing lot it was saved on from Library (also tested with room):
crinrict
Hero+
8 years ago
Archiving this thread.

Please use this one: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/COLLECTION-THREAD-Objects-not-giving-out-emotional-aura/m-p/6701408