AwesomeBump Alternatives

AwesomeBump is described as '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' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to AwesomeBump for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Epic Games Store apps. The best AwesomeBump alternative is Materialize - by Bounding Box Software, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AwesomeBump are Laigter, Quixel Suite, xNormal and Resynthesizer.

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  1. Materialize - by Bounding Box Software icon

    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software

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    Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images. You can create an entire material from a single image or import the textures you have and generate the textures you need.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is the most popular Windows alternative to AwesomeBump.

    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to AwesomeBump.

    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is Free and Open SourceAwesomeBump is also Free and Open Source
  2. Laigter icon

    Laigter

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    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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    • Laigter is the most popular Linux alternative to AwesomeBump.

    • Laigter is Free and Open SourceAwesomeBump is also Free and Open Source
  4. Quixel Suite icon

    Quixel Suite

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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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    Not a simple solution to create maps

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Quixel Suite is the most popular Mac alternative to AwesomeBump.

    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryAwesomeBump is Free and Open Source
  5. xNormal icon

    xNormal

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    xNormal is an application to generate normal / ambient occlusion / displacement maps. It can also project the texture of the highpoly model into the lowpoly mesh ( complete texture transfer, even with different topologies ).

    10 xNormal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Resynthesizer

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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP
     
  7. Crazybump icon

    Crazybump

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    Crazybump generates lighting maps from 2D textures. It supports ambient occlusion (AO) maps, bump maps, normal maps, and more.

    18 Crazybump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Most users think Crazybump is a great AwesomeBump alternative.

    • Crazybump is the most popular commercial alternative to AwesomeBump.

    • Crazybump is Paid and ProprietaryAwesomeBump is Free and Open Source
  9. Substance B2M icon

    Substance B2M

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    Converts a bitmap into a seamless PBR material, including normal, AO, roughness and metallic.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. SpriteIlluminator icon

    SpriteIlluminator

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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. 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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