This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in 2D games.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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Njob Alternatives
Njob is described as 'Simple tool that supports a number of filters related to normalmapping and texture creation. I’ts key design philosophies are:' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Njob for Windows, Mac, Linux, Epic Games Store and GIMP. The best Njob alternative is Laigter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Njob are Quixel Suite, AwesomeBump, PixPlant and Resynthesizer.
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Quixel was founded in 2011 by Teddy Bergsman and Waqar Azim, based on the vision of substantially speeding up how creators build digital environments, by giving them access to a vast and ever-expanding library of 3D building blocks, and easy-to-use tools to greatly simplify the...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Epic Games Store
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19 AwesomeBump alternativesAwesomeBump is an open source program designed to generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image. Since the image processing is done in 99% on GPU the program runs very fast and all the parameters can be changed in real time.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
20 PixPlant alternativesPixPlant is a smart texturing app with the best tools to quickly transform a photo into seamless repeating textures and 3D maps.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
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This is a suite of ten Gimp plugins known as the 'Resynthesizer'. The most commonly used is 'Heal selection' but all use the plugin whose full interface is found at 'Filters>Map>Resynthesize.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- GIMP
Converts a bitmap into a seamless PBR material, including normal, AO, roughness and metallic.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
18 Crazybump alternativesCrazybump generates lighting maps from 2D textures. It supports ambient occlusion (AO) maps, bump maps, normal maps, and more.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
SpriteIlluminator lets you easily generate normal maps for your 2d game and web projects. Render dynamic lighting & other effects and use paint tools to directly draw on the normal map and fine tune the effects.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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
13 Knald alternativesKnald is the world’s first GPU powered solution for generating “bake quality” textures from any 2D source texture.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
MindTex is a 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...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
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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