Recoloring the IKEA PS rug

[claudiasharon]

So I got sick of the red IKEA PS rug and wanted to have more variety. Since I just learned how to recolor objects, I've been going around and finding stuff to recolor.

This is my first rug I've tried, and it doesn't show up right in the game.

I used Photoshop to recolor it and it looks fine in the picture, but when I use SimPE to put the picture back in my recolor package file, it shows up all blocky.

The IKEA PS rug is circular and I can't find a way to just select the rug part instead of the whole picture. I tried different photoshop tools, but none of them would select it just right.

I could have sworn I saw recolors of the rug on another website before, but I can't seem to find them now.

When I put the recolors in my game, they show up normal in the buy mode screen, but when I place them and go to live mode, they show the blocky color.

I'd really appreciate any advice with this.

[HugeLunatic]

The rug texture needs to be imported using the build dxt3 method to retain the transparency as shown in your first pic. dxt1 does not support transparency. The second two pics have the background as black instead of transparent. I've not looked at this rug, but alot of EAxis rugs only use half or 2/3 of a texture and then mirror it. Not sure if this is an issue here though.

And PiggiSims has tons of recolors. :)

[claudiasharon]

It worked, thank you for your help!

Ah yes, I remember that site. That was where I found the recolors before.