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 Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and GIMP. The best Crazybump alternative is AwesomeBump, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Crazybump are PixPlant, Laigter, Quixel Suite and Materialize - by Bounding Box Software.

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

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Crazybump alternatives page was last updated Jul 13, 2022
  1. AwesomeBump icon
     22 likes

    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
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    AwesomeBump Features

    1.  Texturing
    2.  OPENGL
    3.  Realistic viewport
    4.  GLSL
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    Guest

    price, peformance, better output

    Positive commentJun 13, 2018
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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. PixPlant icon
     7 likes

    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
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    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    PixPlant Features

    1.  Texturing
    2.  Textures
    Discontinued

    The latest version (5.0.49) is from October 2023.

    PixPlant iconCrazybump Icon

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    • PixPlant is the most popular Mac alternative to Crazybump.

    • PixPlant is the most popular commercial alternative to Crazybump.

    • PixPlant is Paid and ProprietaryCrazybump is also Paid and Proprietary
  3. Laigter icon
     10 likes

    This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in 2D games.

    15 Laigter alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Laigter iconCrazybump Icon

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  4. Quixel Suite icon
     10 likes

    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...

    25 Quixel Suite alternatives
    Quixel Suite screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Quixel Suite Features

    1.  Scan library
    2.  Procedural Texturing
    3.  Royalty free assets
    4.  Materials Editor
    5.  Textures
    6. Unreal Engine icon  Unreal Engine Integration
    7.  Texture painting
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  5. Materialize - by Bounding Box Software icon
     9 likes

    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.

    6 Materialize - by Bounding Box Software alternatives
    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software Features

    1.  Texture Baking
    2.  Textured tiles
    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software iconCrazybump Icon

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  6. xNormal icon
     9 likes

    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
    xNormal screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    xNormal Features

    1.  Texture Baking
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  7. Sprite Lamp icon
     4 likes

    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.

    15 Sprite Lamp alternatives
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    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Sprite Lamp Features

    1.  Dynamic lighting
    Sprite Lamp iconCrazybump Icon

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  8.  3 likes

    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.

    19 Resynthesizer alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP

    Resynthesizer Features

    1.  Remove Unwanted Objects
    2.  Image Processing
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  9. ModLab icon
     2 likes

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

    18 ModLab alternatives
    ModLab screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    ModLab Features

    1.  Texturing
    ModLab iconCrazybump Icon

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  10. SpriteIlluminator icon
     1 like

    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.

    15 SpriteIlluminator alternatives
    SpriteIlluminator screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    SpriteIlluminator iconCrazybump Icon

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  11. Substance B2M icon
     3 likes

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

    15 Substance B2M alternatives
    Substance B2M screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Substance B2M Features

    1.  Textures
    Substance B2M iconCrazybump Icon

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    richardtongeman

    Modern with latest features

    Positive commentOct 25, 2017
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    • Substance B2M is Paid and ProprietaryCrazybump is also Paid and Proprietary
  12. Njob icon
     2 likes

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

    14 Njob alternatives
    Njob screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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