Laigter Alternatives

Laigter is described as 'This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in 2D games' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Laigter for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Epic Games Store and Python apps. The best Laigter alternative is AwesomeBump, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Laigter are Quixel Suite, Resynthesizer, Unflattener and Sprite Lamp.

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

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

    • AwesomeBump is Free and Open SourceLaigter is also Free and Open Source
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    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...

    25 Quixel Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
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    • Quixel Suite is the most popular Mac alternative to Laigter.

    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryLaigter is Free and Open Source

  4. 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
    • GIMP
     
  5. Unflattener icon

    Unflattener

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    Unflattener is a free and open source Python module and a command line tool (unflatten.py) that helps you make normal maps for 2D sprites and other graphics. You can use the normal maps it generates to implement dynamic lighting in video games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  6. 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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    • Sprite Lamp is the most popular commercial alternative to Laigter.

    • Sprite Lamp is Paid and ProprietaryLaigter is Free and Open Source
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    ModLab

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. HandPlane Baker icon

    HandPlane Baker

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

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PSD MATERIAL OUTPUT You can create, save, and share libraries of material base colors. Assign them to pieces of your models and they are baked into an organized PSD set up with layer masks, ready for you to paint on. I am really hoping people post and share their material libraries so we can build a central repository for everyone to work from. You can name and edit colors for 3 material properties in the editor like this:
     
  11. Crazybump icon

    Crazybump

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

    18 Crazybump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  12. 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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  13. NVIDIA Melody icon

    NVIDIA Melody

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. Njob icon

    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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