Substance B2M Alternatives

Substance B2M is described as 'Converts a bitmap into a seamless PBR material, including normal, AO, roughness and metallic' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Substance B2M for Windows, Mac, Linux, Epic Games Store and GIMP. The best Substance B2M alternative is Materialize - by Bounding Box Software, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Substance B2M are Laigter, AwesomeBump, PixPlant and Quixel Suite.

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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
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    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is the most popular Windows alternative to Substance B2M.

    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Substance B2M.

    • Materialize - by Bounding Box Software is Free and Open SourceSubstance B2M is Paid 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 Substance B2M.

    • Laigter is Free and Open SourceSubstance B2M is Paid 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. PixPlant icon

    PixPlant

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    PixPlant is a smart texturing app with the best tools to quickly transform a photo into seamless repeating textures and 3D maps.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • PixPlant is the most popular Mac alternative to Substance B2M.

    • PixPlant is the most popular commercial alternative to Substance B2M.

    • PixPlant is Paid and ProprietarySubstance B2M is also Paid and Proprietary
  6. 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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  7. 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
     
  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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    ModLab

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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
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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Njob icon

    Njob

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    Njob is a simple tool that supports a number of filters related to normalmapping and texture creation. I’ts key design philosophies are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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