SpriteIlluminator Alternatives

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

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SpriteIlluminator

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SpriteIlluminator lets you easily generate normal maps for your 2d game and web projects. Render dynamic lighting &...

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Laigter
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Free • Open Source
Game Development Tool
Windows
Linux
15 alternatives to Laigter
This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in 2D games.

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AwesomeBump
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
20 alternatives to AwesomeBump
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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AwesomeBump Features
Texturing
OPENGL
Realistic viewport
GLSL
Quixel Suite
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Freemium • Proprietary
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Linux
27 alternatives to Quixel Suite
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...
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Quixel Suite Features
Scan library
Procedural Texturing
Royalty free assets
Materials Editor
Textures
Unreal Engine Integration
Texture painting
Resynthesizer
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
GIMP
20 alternatives to Resynthesizer
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
Sprite Lamp
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Paid • Proprietary
Game Development Tool
Windows
15 alternatives to Sprite Lamp
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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Sprite Lamp Features
Dynamic lighting
HandPlane Baker
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
14 alternatives to HandPlane Baker
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
Unflattener
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Free • Open Source
Game Development Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
Python
4 alternatives to Unflattener
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.
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Unflattener Features
Dynamic lighting
ModLab
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
18 alternatives to ModLab
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
NVIDIA Melody
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
14 alternatives to NVIDIA Melody
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.

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Crazybump
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
19 alternatives to Crazybump
Crazybump generates lighting maps from 2D textures. It supports ambient occlusion (AO) maps, bump maps, normal maps, and more.

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