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 and GIMP. The best Substance B2M alternative is PixPlant. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Laigter or AwesomeBump. Other great apps like Substance B2M are Resynthesizer, Quixel Suite, Materialize - by Bounding Box Software and Sprite Lamp.

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Converts a bitmap into a seamless PBR material, including normal, AO, roughness and metallic.

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Substance B2M alternatives page was last updated Jul 13, 2022
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  1. 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.

    20 PixPlant alternatives

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • PT flagPortugal
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    PixPlant screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The latest version (5.0.49) is from October 2023.

    PixPlant Features

    1.  Texturing
    2.  Textures

    PixPlant VS Substance B2M

     

    • PixPlant is the most popular Windows & 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
  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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Laigter VS Substance B2M

     

    • Laigter is the most popular Linux alternative to Substance B2M.

    • Laigter is the most popular Open Source & free 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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    AwesomeBump screenshot 1

    AwesomeBump Features

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

    AwesomeBump VS Substance B2M

     

  5. 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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP

    Resynthesizer Features

    1.  Remove Unwanted Objects
    2.  Image Processing

    Resynthesizer VS Substance B2M

     
  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

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Quixel Suite screenshot 1

    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 Substance B2M

     
  7. 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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software screenshot 1

    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software Features

    1.  Texture Baking
    2.  Textured tiles

    Materialize - by Bounding Box Software VS Substance B2M

     
  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.

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    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • AU flagAustralia

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Sprite Lamp screenshot 1

    Sprite Lamp Features

    1.  Dynamic lighting

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  10. ModLab icon

    ModLab

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    ModLab is a free tool that can generate and fine tune normal maps in a realtime rendering environment.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    ModLab screenshot 1

    ModLab Features

    1.  Texturing

    ModLab VS Substance B2M

     
  11. 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.

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    SpriteIlluminator VS Substance B2M

     
  12. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Crazybump VS Substance B2M

     
  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.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Knald Features

    1.  GPU Acceleration

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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:

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Njob VS Substance B2M

     
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