How to create thick fabric rug?

[blank_1]

There are plenty of tutorials and workflows for fuzzy furry carpets, but what about… other ones?
Something like this:

This is what I got, considering it’s just a texture and displacement, no complex material setup or modeling, it doesn’t look bad. Any ideas how to make it better?

[nkilar]

I’d approach it sort of like you did - with displacement maps. Granted, I try to avoid using displacement due to all of the precalcs that need to happen not to mention you need a hefty amount of RAM if you are rendering the Aladin (I am mostly reffering to the rug store).

What you could also do is zbrush it

[gezakadas]

Zbrush? Really?!

Use corona scatter instead.
You can find really good tutorials on youtube how to use it.

[maru]

It looks like a good normal/bump map could help achieve the effect as in your reference photo. Unless you mean the “fringes” on the carpet’s side.

[blank_1]

Here it is after little fiddling with displacement map and some details added. Since it’s not intended for super closeups I think it’ll look OK in the scene.

[sylphx]

It looks solid to me; the edging details really sell it. Good work.

[jorari71_1]

Good work, overall for the “hairs” of the pair of edges.

It would be good to show us how did you set the material.

Best regards.

[blank_1]

@jorari71

It would be good to show us how did you set the material.

Not much to show, really, it’s just a bitmap and a displacement map I extracted from diffuse map. For fringe (“hairs”) i modeled 5 of them with “spring” (in dynamics objects), applied various noise and bend modifiers and scattered them, with Corona scatter off course.