More Awesome Than You!

Hi all, So my Mad Scientist sim has been performing experiments on damn near everything in his house. Some very nice bonuses there (new car smell in the bathroom? Awesome!) however the stupid glowing effects on everything are really too much. With all of the chairs, tables, electronics, appliances glowing like this, the house looks positively radioactive.

Is there any way to make the glowing stop, other than undoing the experiments? Something I can download maybe? It seems to randomly go away after a while, and then randomly come back again. Or it may not be random at all. :p

Thanks!

Yes, I wondered this too.

Sorry to necropost (better than starting a new thread about the same subject?), but I still haven't found an answer to this problem, other than not using the "Perform Experiment On" option.
I have tried here, MTS, and google, and although I found a couple of people asking the same question, I have not found a mod that removed the glow/aura effect from experimented items.

Does anyone know of a mod out there that does this?

The glowpulses are a normal effect of making an item experimental. If you don't want items to glowpulse, don't experient on them. It's hard enough telling what items have been so tortured so you can assign them to the right rooms!

Well, yes, I know that.


Surely the moodlet it gives you would say what it is from? Even if it doesn't, it wouldn't be hard to experiment on each item until you get the desired effect, and then move on to the next. Sure, if you did a load of them, and then forgot, it might be problematic, but having them all flashing and flickering at you, all day and night is surely more of a problem?

There's a mod to disable Perform Experiment On floating around somewhere on MTS, but I haven't seen one to disable the glow. I would say go post in the requests thread in Pudding Factory, and probably find the one at MTS and post there, too. Maybe you'll motivate someone to figure it out for you.

If the glowage can't be prevented (other than by, of course, not doing eet), could it be at least toned down via some sort of default-replacement-style graphics swap?

Since people have been able to get rid of the musical notes and Zzzz, it shouldn't be impossible to get rid of the science effects.

It should be easy to do by a vfx replacer, but it is not relevant to our interests here. Someone at MTS2 will probably do something like that if you whine for it enough. I, however, value the glowy effect as a means of knowing which object has been experimented on. It would be even better if we could keep track of WHICH effect it was giving.

Oh, I agree that science experiments that make your fridge give you a happy should announce themselves. My quibble with the glow isn't its existence but the screaming turquoise-and-yellow of it. If it were even just possible to make it a more neutral colour, I'd be chuffed, but you're right - probably coming soon to an MTS2 near you.