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

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

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