Knald Alternatives

Knald is described as 'is the world’s first GPU powered solution for generating “bake quality” textures from any 2D source texture' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Knald for Windows, Linux, Mac, Online / Web-based and GIMP. The best alternative is AwesomeBump, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Knald are Quixel Suite, Materialize - by Bounding Box Software, Resynthesizer and HandPlane Baker.

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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.

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AwesomeBump
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
20 alternatives to AwesomeBump
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.
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AwesomeBump Features
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AwesomeBump vs Knald opinions
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AwesomeBump is an old program that can do basic image manipulation to generate poor quality maps. Knald is a professional texture baker that is state of the art in its field.
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Quixel Suite
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
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Linux
27 alternatives to Quixel Suite
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...
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Quixel Suite Features
Scan library
Procedural Texturing
Royalty free assets
Materials Editor
Textures
Unreal Engine Integration
Texture painting
Materialize - by Bounding Box Software
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Free • Open Source
Windows
7 alternatives to Materialize - by Bounding Box Software
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.
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Materialize - by Bounding Box Software Features
Texture Baking
Textured tiles
Resynthesizer
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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GIMP
20 alternatives to Resynthesizer
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.'
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Resynthesizer Features
Image Processing
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HandPlane Baker
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
14 alternatives to HandPlane Baker
Handplane Baker is a free baking tool for a production environment that processes extremely dense models easily.
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HandPlane Baker Features
Texture Baking
ModLab
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
18 alternatives to ModLab
ModLab is a free tool that can generate and fine tune normal maps in a realtime rendering environment.
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ModLab Features
Texturing
NVIDIA Melody
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
14 alternatives to NVIDIA Melody
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.

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Crazybump
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
19 alternatives to Crazybump
Crazybump generates lighting maps from 2D textures. It supports ambient occlusion (AO) maps, bump maps, normal maps, and more.

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

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Substance B2M
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
16 alternatives to Substance B2M
Converts a bitmap into a seamless PBR material, including normal, AO, roughness and metallic.
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Substance B2M Features
Textures