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, Quixel Suite, xNormal 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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Laigter
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Free • Open Source
Game Development Tool
Windows
Linux
15 Laigter alternatives
This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in 2D games.
- - Laigter is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to NVIDIA Melody.
- - Laigter is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NVIDIA Melody.
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AwesomeBump
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
19 AwesomeBump alternatives
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.
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Texturing
OPENGL
Realistic viewport
GLSL
Quixel Suite
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
27 Quixel Suite alternatives
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...
- - Quixel Suite is the most popular Mac alternative to NVIDIA Melody.
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Quixel Suite Features
Scan library
Procedural Texturing
Royalty free assets
Materials Editor
Textures
Unreal Engine Integration
Texture painting
xNormal
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
10 xNormal alternatives
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 ).
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xNormal Features
Texture Baking
Sprite Lamp
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Paid • Proprietary
Game Development Tool
Windows
15 Sprite Lamp alternatives
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.
- - Sprite Lamp is the most popular commercial alternative to NVIDIA Melody.
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Sprite Lamp Features
Dynamic lighting
HandPlane Baker
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
14 HandPlane Baker alternatives
Handplane Baker is a free baking tool for a production environment that processes extremely dense models easily.
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HandPlane Baker Features
Texture Baking
Resynthesizer
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
GIMP
19 Resynthesizer alternatives
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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Resynthesizer Features
Image Processing
Add a screenshot
ModLab
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
18 ModLab alternatives
ModLab is a free tool that can generate and fine tune normal maps in a realtime rendering environment.
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ModLab Features
Texturing
SpriteIlluminator
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
15 SpriteIlluminator alternatives
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.
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Knald
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
13 Knald alternatives
Knald is the world’s first GPU powered solution for generating “bake quality” textures from any 2D source texture.
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Knald Features
GPU Acceleration
MightyBake
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
14 MightyBake alternatives
Mightybake is fast hybrid GPU / CPU accelerated baker maximizes your hardware to bake textures ultra fast.
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MindTex
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
21 MindTex alternatives
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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MindTex Features
Texturing