Rugs and Normal Maps

@SimGuruModSquad , what's the deal with rugs? Despite that most EA rugs have normal maps, it would seem that, uh, the rug shader doesn't even support normal maps. I can only assume this is a bug, or that someone at EA likes wasting a lot of time to make all of those useless normal maps?

Could it be something specifically with my game, or with the modding tools I'm using? I've tried taking a rug and changing the shader to phong, and the normal map then shows up fine. (But that then makes the rug unplacable.) Likewise, if I take a different object (chair, sculpture, whatever) changing the shader to rug removes the normal map. Change shader back to phong and the normal map comes back. :|