Knald Alternatives

Knald is described as '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, Web-based and GIMP. The best Knald alternative is AwesomeBump, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Knald are Resynthesizer, Quixel Suite, Materialize - by Bounding Box Software and HandPlane Baker.

Knald iconKnald
  2
  • ...

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

More about Knald
Knald alternatives page was last updated Jul 13, 2022
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
  1. AwesomeBump icon
     23 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    AwesomeBump Features

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

    AwesomeBump VS Knald

     
    Comments about AwesomeBump as an Alternative to Knald
    Guest
    Negative Oct 25, 2018
    0

    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.

    Knald Icon
    AwesomeBump icon
    • AwesomeBump is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Knald.

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

    • AwesomeBump is Free and Open SourceKnald is Paid and Proprietary
  2.  4 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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

    Resynthesizer VS Knald

     
    • Resynthesizer is the most popular Mac alternative to Knald.

    • Resynthesizer is Free and Open SourceKnald is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Quixel Suite icon
     10 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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...

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    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

    Quixel Suite VS Knald

     
  4. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software Features

    1.  Texture Baking
    2.  Textured tiles

    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software VS Knald

     
  5. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Handplane Baker is a free baking tool for a production environment that processes extremely dense models easily.

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    HandPlane Baker Features

    1.  Texture Baking

    HandPlane Baker VS Knald

     
  6. ModLab icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

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

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    ModLab Features

    1.  Texturing

    ModLab VS Knald

     
  7. Crazybump icon
     5 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

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

    18 Crazybump alternatives

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Crazybump VS Knald

     
    • Crazybump is the most popular commercial alternative to Knald.

    • Crazybump is Paid and ProprietaryKnald is also Paid and Proprietary
  8. NVIDIA Melody icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    NVIDIA Melody VS Knald

     
  9. Njob icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Njob VS Knald

     
  10. Substance B2M icon
     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

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

    15 Substance B2M alternatives

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Substance B2M Features

    1.  Textures

    Substance B2M VS Knald

     
  11. MightyBake icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Mightybake is fast hybrid GPU / CPU accelerated baker maximizes your hardware to bake textures ultra fast.

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    MightyBake VS Knald

     
  12. MindTex icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    MindTex is a normal map generation utility for game developers and 3d professionals. Built to rival the competition in quality without the steep price, whether you want to generate a normal, height, specular, gloss, self-illumination, occlusion, or reflection map, you can easily...

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    MindTex Features

    1.  Texturing

    MindTex VS Knald

     
12 of 13 Knald alternatives