I'm busy recolouring floor rugs, and I want them to look like they have some pile. When I made floor rugs for Sims2 I used to add some noise to get this affect, but it doesn't seem to work now. Can anyone tell me how I can add a pile effect to my designs?

Just to explain for other people, “pile” in this context is this: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-carpet-pile.htm

What I’d probably try is get/take some photos of actual carpet and work from that .. also, if the texture is very important you can use a higher resolution image too if the current one is too low res to get the detail across – the game has no problem with that, as long as the lengths of the sides are a power of 2 (64, 128, 512 etc pp).

I was just messing around with this in paint.net the other night. I achieved a nice texture using the overlay option in a new layer.

I found a texture by googling "carpet pile seamless texture" and found a few good ones. I uploaded the one I used after I sized it down to 512x512 and made it into a grey scale by clicking on Adjustments/Black and White. It's down in the attachments.

I exported the texture for the medium sisal rug just to show you what I did.



Opened it up in paint.net, added a layer, then made that layer and overlay. I clicked back to my black and white texture that I resized to the same as the rug texture, copied it, then pasted it on the new overlay layer on the rug. Merge the layers down before saving.

Looks very nice! Good Job and good tutorial