MindTex Alternatives

MindTex is described as 'Normal map generation utility for game developers and 3d professionals. Built to rival the competition in quality without the steep price, whether you want to generate a normal, height, specular, gloss, self-illumination, occlusion, or reflection map, you can easily' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to MindTex for Windows, Mac, Linux, Epic Games Store and GIMP. The best MindTex alternative is InstaMAT. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try InstaMAT or Laigter. Other great apps like MindTex are AwesomeBump, Adobe Substance Designer, PixPlant and Resynthesizer.

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  1. Sprite Lamp icon

    Sprite Lamp

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    Sprite Lamp is a software tool to help game developers combine 2D art with dynamic lighting effects, through the creation of hand drawn normal maps.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. TexGraph icon

    TexGraph

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    TexGraph is a procedural texture creation tool that let you create textures by connecting nodes in a graph. It is designed to be similar to other tools in the market but at the same time be very simple and easy to use and extent by users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Knald icon

    Knald

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    Knald is the world’s first GPU powered solution for generating “bake quality” textures from any 2D source texture.

    13 Knald alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. NVIDIA Melody icon

    NVIDIA Melody

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    NVIDIA Melody creates high quality normal maps that make a low-poly model look like a high-poly model. Simply load your low-poly working model, then load your high-poly reference model, click the "Generate Normal Map" button and watch Melody go to town.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Njob icon

    Njob

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    Njob is a simple tool that supports a number of filters related to normalmapping and texture creation. I’ts key design philosophies are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. HandPlane Baker icon

    HandPlane Baker

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    Handplane Baker is a free baking tool for a production environment that processes extremely dense models easily.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PSD MATERIAL OUTPUT You can create, save, and share libraries of material base colors. Assign them to pieces of your models and they are baked into an organized PSD set up with layer masks, ready for you to paint on. I am really hoping people post and share their material libraries so we can build a central repository for everyone to work from. You can name and edit colors for 3 material properties in the editor like this:
     
  9. MightyBake icon

    MightyBake

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    Mightybake is fast hybrid GPU / CPU accelerated baker maximizes your hardware to bake textures ultra fast.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. ModLab icon

    ModLab

     2 likes

    ModLab is a free tool that can generate and fine tune normal maps in a realtime rendering environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Sprite Bump icon

    Sprite Bump

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    Sprite Bump is an advanced 2D Normal Map Generation Tool. It takes in a single 2D image and generates a normal map and optional ambient occlusion map for use in 3D Lighting for realtime Game Engines ( Unreal Engine, Unity etc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  12. ShaderMap icon

    ShaderMap

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    ShaderMap creates rendering textures such as normal maps, ambient occlusion, albedo, displacement, metalness, and roughness. Select a mode and source type then load the source file - ShaderMap will create a project generating maps from the source. It's that easy.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PBR Material Generation and Visualization
     
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