The Mood Lamp is probably one of the best things to clone if you want a more or less “decorative“ object that can still do something cool and give your sim extra perks on top of it. For instance, take the Paranormal Jar and Dragon Spring Rider I made for my Bday Bonanza: Those had special effects because the objects I cloned them from (the Supernatural EP’s Mood Lamp and the Generations EP’s Spring Rider) have special effects when you turn them on. Probably the easiest way to “add” effects to objects is to clone and object that already has effects. School Motto: Prepare to be tortured! For Science!
Welcome to Murf’s School of Crap and Crap-Making! That is indeed a tough one–I myself don’t have much experience with it either, so PLEASE make a tutorial for us, Green! 🙏 This is what little I know: I might make a tutorial for it in the future, regarding adding effects, since the process of it is quite technical and I really need to figure out again how to do it :p (Although it sounds like a thing the great has already done :p) Is it editing an existing Effect (So making, say, a candle flame blue?) on objects, or is it actually adding a whole new effect to an object? Because the latter would actually require some scripting unfortunately :/
Ohh, that’s a tough one! It really depends on what you want to do.