Crazybump Alternatives

Crazybump is described as 'Generates lighting maps from 2D textures. It supports ambient occlusion (AO) maps, bump maps, normal maps, and more' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Crazybump for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Epic Games Store apps. The best Crazybump alternative is AwesomeBump, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Crazybump are Materialize - by Bounding Box Software, Quixel Suite, Laigter and PixPlant.

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  1. AwesomeBump icon

    AwesomeBump

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    AwesomeBump 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.

    19 AwesomeBump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    price, peformance, better output

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    • Most users think AwesomeBump is a great Crazybump alternative.

    • AwesomeBump is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Crazybump.

    • AwesomeBump is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Crazybump.

    • AwesomeBump is Free and Open SourceCrazybump is Paid and Proprietary
  2. 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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  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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    • Most users think Quixel Suite is a great Crazybump alternative.

    • Quixel Suite is the most popular Mac alternative to Crazybump.

    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryCrazybump is Paid and Proprietary
  5. 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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  6. PixPlant icon

    PixPlant

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    PixPlant is a smart texturing app with the best tools to quickly transform a photo into seamless repeating textures and 3D maps.

    20 PixPlant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • PixPlant is the most popular commercial alternative to Crazybump.

    • PixPlant is Paid and ProprietaryCrazybump is also Paid and Proprietary

  7. 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
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  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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    Modern with latest features

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    • Substance B2M is Paid and ProprietaryCrazybump is also Paid and Proprietary
  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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    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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    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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