HouseAuras

HouseAuras — Bring Your WoW House to Life

HouseAuras turns World of Warcraft Housing into an interactive experience.

Create room-based scenes, animated effects, lighting presets, music, environmental ambience, whole-house configurations, multiplayer experiences, and more—all rendered locally by addon-enabled players.

Build the house.
HouseAuras makes it react.

✨ Dynamic Room Scenes

Create unique experiences for individual rooms and exterior spaces.

A room can have its own:

• Animated visual effects
• Parallax environments
• Lighting configuration
• Music and ambience
• Entry, ambient, and exit effects
• Interactive scene behavior

HouseAuras automatically detects where you are and activates the appropriate scene.

Visitors with HouseAuras render the experience locally, allowing everyone to move through the house independently.

🏠 Whole-House Manifests

Have more than one version of your house?

HouseAuras can save and load complete House Manifests, including your room assignments and HouseAuras configuration.

This is ideal for:

• Different Blizzard housing blueprints
• Seasonal versions of your house
• Guild events
• Parties
• Roleplaying nights
• Haunted-house setups
• Alternate themes

Swap your entire HouseAuras setup without rebuilding every room manually.

🎭 House Modes

Visitors can choose how they want to experience supported houses.

Regular Mode

Experience the house normally with its Room Scenes and effects.

Scare Me

Opt into a more... unpredictable visit.

If you change your mind, there is always a way out.

Party Mode

Join the homeowner's party experience.

Participating guests can receive synchronized fireworks, lighting effects, sounds, celebrations, and other effects triggered by the house owner.

Client-side safety preferences remain under each player's control.

House Modes can also be opened at any time with:

/ha mode

🎮 House Games

Houses aren't just places to look at anymore.

HouseAuras includes a multiplayer House Games framework for playing games with other visitors.

Current games include:

Reaction Rush

Watch for the cue and react as quickly as possible.

Compete across multiple rounds for the fastest correct responses.

Memory Sequence

Remember the growing sequence of colors and repeat it correctly.

Single-player mode tracks your personal high score.

In multiplayer, one mistake eliminates you until only the final player remains.

Tag

Actual Tag inside your WoW house.

Players must be in the same party or raid.

Get within 3 yards, hit the Tag button, and make someone else IT.

Tag includes support for tag-back protection and multiplayer No Tagbacks rules.

Open House Games at any time with:

/ha game

Game invitations are completely optional, and players who aren't interested can enable Auto-decline Games to suppress them.

🎆 Special Effects

HouseAuras includes a flexible FX system capable of animated and static visual effects.

Effects can support:

• Scale and positioning
• Rotation
• Opacity
• Tinting
• Animation frames
• Movement
• Drift
• Timing
• Fade behavior
• Randomized behavior
• Layered environmental effects

Many HouseAuras systems reuse these effects to create room ambience, celebrations, environmental changes, and interactive experiences.

🌌 Parallax Environments

Create moving environmental layers that transform the feeling of a room.

Parallax can be used for things such as:

• Stars
• Clouds
• Weather
• Atmospheric overlays
• Magical environments
• Moving scenery
• Windows and exterior illusions

Multiple layers can move independently to create depth.

💡 Advanced Lighting

Save lighting as part of your scenes and house configurations.

HouseAuras supports lighting presets, tinting, darkness effects, and synchronized environmental changes.

Client-side protection is available for rapidly flashing effects.

🎵 Music, Sounds & Atmosphere

Scenes can include music and environmental audio so different rooms can feel completely different from one another.

HouseAuras can combine visual scenes with:

• Music
• Ambient sounds
• Environmental loops
• Sound effects
• Triggered audio moments

🎁 Gifts and Shared Presets

HouseAuras separates ownership from configuration.

Gift grants a player access to a graphic or effect asset.

Share sends a reusable configuration/preset without transferring ownership of its artwork.

This makes it possible to receive an effect and then customize it yourself—or share interesting effect behavior with friends.

🏦 Unlocked Bank

Content you earn or receive becomes available through the Unlocked Bank.

Use unlocked content in your own creations and quickly access newly available effects.

Some things in HouseAuras are meant to be discovered naturally.

We aren't going to spoil them here.

🔄 Multiplayer Scene Synchronization

HouseAuras uses lightweight addon communication to coordinate experiences while each player's client handles the actual rendering.

This allows:

• Fast scene changes
• Independent room exploration
• House Mode events
• Multiplayer House Games
• Shared effects
• Party experiences

without constantly transmitting large visual assets.

🛠️ Built for Creators and Visitors

HouseAuras is designed for both sides of housing.

Creators can build highly customized interactive environments.

Visitors can simply install the addon and experience compatible houses as they explore.

You do not need to understand the editor systems just to visit a HouseAuras-enabled home.

⌨️ Useful Commands

/ha — Open HouseAuras

/ha mode — Open House Modes

/ha game — Open House Games

More controls are available through the HouseAuras interface.

🌟 What Is HouseAuras Becoming?

HouseAuras started as a way to add visual effects to WoW Housing.

It has grown into a system for creating interactive houses.

Rooms can change around you.

Houses can have multiple personalities.

Homeowners can run events.

Visitors can opt into experiences.

Friends can play games together.

And this is still only the beginning.

Build your house. Give it an aura. MAKE AZEROTH GORGEOUS AGAIN!