ModLab Alternatives

ModLab is described as 'Free tool that can generate and fine tune normal maps in a realtime rendering environment' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to ModLab for Windows, Linux, Mac, Epic Games Store and GIMP. The best ModLab alternative is Materialize - by Bounding Box Software, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ModLab are Laigter, AwesomeBump, Quixel Suite and Resynthesizer.

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  1. Materialize - by Bounding Box Software icon

    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software

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    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software screenshot 1
     

    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is the most popular Windows alternative to ModLab.

    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ModLab.

    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is Free and Open SourceModLab is Free and Proprietary
  2. Laigter icon

    Laigter

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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
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    • Laigter is the most popular Linux alternative to ModLab.

    • Laigter is Free and Open SourceModLab is Free and Proprietary
  4. 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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  5. Quixel Suite icon

    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 ModLab.

    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryModLab is also Free and Proprietary

  6. 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
     
  7. xNormal icon

    xNormal

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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
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  9. 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 ModLab.

    • Sprite Lamp is Paid and ProprietaryModLab is Free and Proprietary
  11. 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:
     
  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Knald icon

    Knald

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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
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