MightyBake Alternatives

MightyBake is described as 'Mightybake is fast hybrid GPU / CPU accelerated baker maximizes your hardware to bake textures ultra fast' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to MightyBake for Windows, Linux, Mac, Epic Games Store and GIMP. The best MightyBake alternative is Laigter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MightyBake are AwesomeBump, Quixel Suite, Resynthesizer and xNormal.

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  1. Laigter icon
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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
     
    • Laigter is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to MightyBake.

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

    • Laigter is Free and Open SourceMightyBake is Paid and Proprietary
  2. AwesomeBump icon
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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
     
  3. Quixel Suite icon
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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
     
    • Quixel Suite is the most popular Mac alternative to MightyBake.

    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryMightyBake is Paid and Proprietary
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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. xNormal icon
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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
     
  6. Sprite Lamp icon
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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
     
    • Sprite Lamp is the most popular commercial alternative to MightyBake.

    • Sprite Lamp is Paid and ProprietaryMightyBake is also Paid and Proprietary
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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
     
  8. ModLab icon
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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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    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
     
  10. Knald icon
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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
     
  11. NVIDIA Melody icon
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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
     
  12. MindTex icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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