Sprite Bump Alternatives

Sprite Bump is described as 'Advanced 2D Normal Map Generation Tool. It takes in a single 2D image and generates a normal map and optional ambient occlusion map for use in 3D Lighting for realtime Game Engines ( Unreal Engine, Unity etc' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Sprite Bump for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Epic Games Store and Python apps. The best Sprite Bump alternative is Laigter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sprite Bump are AwesomeBump, Quixel Suite, Resynthesizer and Unflattener.

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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 Sprite Bump.

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

    • Laigter is Free and Open SourceSprite Bump 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.

    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...

    25 Quixel Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
     
    • Quixel Suite is the most popular Mac alternative to Sprite Bump.

    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietarySprite Bump 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. Unflattener icon
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    Unflattener is a free and open source Python module and a command line tool (unflatten.py) that helps you make normal maps for 2D sprites and other graphics. You can use the normal maps it generates to implement dynamic lighting in video games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  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 Sprite Bump.

    • Sprite Lamp is Paid and ProprietarySprite Bump 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
     
  9. 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
     
  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
     
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