xNormal Alternatives

xNormal is described as '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 )' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are nine alternatives to xNormal for Windows, Linux, Mac, Epic Games Store and GIMP. The best xNormal alternative is Quixel Suite, which is free. Other great apps like xNormal are AwesomeBump, Resynthesizer, Crazybump and HandPlane Baker.

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  1. 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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    Quixel suite was made to texture 3D objects, while XNormal was made to bake High Poly models into lowpoly textures. While Quixel has recently added certain baking it doesn't do it for highpoly to lowpoly and as such the major use of the two programs are far from similar.

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    • Quixel Suite is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to xNormal.

    • Quixel Suite is the most popular free alternative to xNormal.

    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryxNormal is also Free and Proprietary
  2. 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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    xNormal is a program to bake normal maps from high to low resolution meshes, and AwesomeBump doesn't perform that main function at all.

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    awesome bump does not transfer texture info from a high poly mesh to a low poly mesh

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think AwesomeBump is a great xNormal alternative.

    • AwesomeBump is the most popular Open Source alternative to xNormal.

    • AwesomeBump is Free and Open SourcexNormal is Free and Proprietary

  4. 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
     
  5. 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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    Its just image to material, you cant use a model to bake normals, models are only used just to see the material you created on that model. You cant bake.

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    • Crazybump is the most popular commercial alternative to xNormal.

    • Crazybump is Paid and ProprietaryxNormal is Free and Proprietary
  6. HandPlane Baker icon

    HandPlane Baker

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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
    PSD MATERIAL OUTPUT You can create, save, and share libraries of material base colors. Assign them to pieces of your models and they are baked into an organized PSD set up with layer masks, ready for you to paint on. I am really hoping people post and share their material libraries so we can build a central repository for everyone to work from. You can name and edit colors for 3 material properties in the editor like this:
     
  7. NVIDIA Melody icon

    NVIDIA Melody

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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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    It doesnt work on newer software unlike Xnormal. Also, works bad on non Nvidia GPUs

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    • NVIDIA Melody is Free and ProprietaryxNormal is also Free and Proprietary
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    MindTex

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    MightyBake

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    Mightybake is fast hybrid GPU / CPU accelerated baker maximizes your hardware to bake textures ultra fast.

    14 MightyBake alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    It's not similar enough!

    Assossiated with AutoDesk Maya Corporation

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    • MightyBake is Paid and ProprietaryxNormal is Free and Proprietary
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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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