NVIDIA Melody Alternatives

NVIDIA Melody is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to NVIDIA Melody for Windows, Linux, Mac and GIMP. The best NVIDIA Melody alternative is Laigter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like NVIDIA Melody are AwesomeBump, xNormal, Quixel Suite and Sprite Lamp.

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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...

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NVIDIA Melody alternatives page was last updated Oct 27, 2024
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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.

    15 Laigter alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux

    Laigter VS NVIDIA Melody

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

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

    • Laigter is Free and Open SourceNVIDIA Melody is Free 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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    AwesomeBump Features

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

    AwesomeBump VS NVIDIA Melody

     
  3. 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

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    xNormal Features

    1.  Texture Baking

    xNormal VS NVIDIA Melody

     
  4. 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...

    25 Quixel Suite alternatives

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    • 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 NVIDIA Melody

     
    • Quixel Suite is the most popular Mac alternative to NVIDIA Melody.

    • Quixel Suite is Freemium and ProprietaryNVIDIA Melody is Free and Proprietary
  5. 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.

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    • AU flagAustralia

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Sprite Lamp Features

    1.  Dynamic lighting

    Sprite Lamp VS NVIDIA Melody

     
    • Sprite Lamp is the most popular commercial alternative to NVIDIA Melody.

    • Sprite Lamp is Paid and ProprietaryNVIDIA Melody is Free and Proprietary
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    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 NVIDIA Melody

     
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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP

    Resynthesizer Features

    1.  Remove Unwanted Objects
    2.  Image Processing

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  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.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    ModLab Features

    1.  Texturing

    ModLab VS NVIDIA Melody

     
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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.

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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  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.

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    • Windows

    Knald Features

    1.  GPU Acceleration

    Knald VS NVIDIA Melody

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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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  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...

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    • Windows

    MindTex Features

    1.  Texturing

    MindTex VS NVIDIA Melody

     
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