MindTex Alternatives

MindTex is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to MindTex for Windows, Mac, Linux, Epic Games Store and GIMP. The best MindTex alternative is InstaMAT. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try InstaMAT or Laigter. Other great apps like MindTex are AwesomeBump, Adobe Substance Designer, PixPlant and Resynthesizer.

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  1. InstaMAT icon
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    InstaMAT offers a comprehensive solution for procedural material and asset creation, scalable texturing, and data-driven asset pipelines where instead of texturing a specific asset, you're now texturing an entire class of assets using a previously established workflow.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • InstaMAT is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to MindTex.

    • InstaMAT is the most popular free alternative to MindTex.

    • InstaMAT is Free Personal and ProprietaryMindTex is Paid and Proprietary
  2. 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 Linux alternative to MindTex.

    • Laigter is the most popular Open Source alternative to MindTex.

    • Laigter is Free and Open SourceMindTex is Paid and Proprietary
  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
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Substance Designer is a node-based non-destructive application for material authoring. Edit complete texture sets fast with the non-linear workflow and see your changes apply simultaneously to all your outputs.

    17 Adobe Substance Designer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Adobe Substance Designer is the most popular commercial alternative to MindTex.

    • Adobe Substance Designer is Paid and ProprietaryMindTex is also Paid and Proprietary
  6. PixPlant icon
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    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

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7.  4 likes
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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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP
     
  8. Imogen icon
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    Imogen is a GPU-based Texture generator using dear imgui for UI. Not production ready and a bit messy but really fun to code. This is an hybrid project that can run natively or on the web (thanks to emscripten).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Substance B2M icon
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    Converts a bitmap into a seamless PBR material, including normal, AO, roughness and metallic.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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
     
  11. Crazybump icon
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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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    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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