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xNormal – Free and classic tool to bake texture maps

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Texture baking can be an important step in the 3D model production pipeline, as it allows for the transfer of high-resolution surface details onto low-polygon models, so as to improve their visual quality without impacting performance. xNormal simplifies this process and empowers artists and game developers to create realistic textures for their projects.

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AwesomeBump – Generate all texture maps from a single image

AwesomeBump (AKA: Awesome Bump) is a free and open-source alternative of CrazyBump or the Insane Bump plugin for GIMP, developed by Krzysztof Kolasinski from Poland, using Qt library. It is used to generate high-quality normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion, metallic, roughness and other textures from a single image.

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JSplacement – Procedurally generating Sci-Fi style displacement maps

JSplacement is a powerful, easy-to-use and free pseudo-random HD 3D displacement maps generator for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, developed by Windmill (Grigori Shevtsov) from Finland, using JavaScript and based on Electron. With it, we can quickly create a variety of very complex, electronics-like, Sci-Fi style texture maps for use in various 3D software.

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Sculptris – Do advanced digital sculpting like playing with mud

Pixologic claims to be the maker of Sculptris, but actually it had no choice but acquired it in 2010 due to the huge threats from Sculptris, and applied Sculptris’ advantages to ZBrush, so as to maintain the market and position of ZBrush. Otherwise, if Sculptris’ inventor Tomas Pettersson had chosen to stick to go his own way (although that would have been tough) rather than join into the Pixologic team, then this revolutionary software could have quickly eliminated ZBrush. In other words, it was his own shortcomings that killed his invention, not the competition from Pixologic.

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[v1.22] CrazyBump – Create high-quality textured maps from images

CrazyBump is simple, easy-to-use yet professional 2D photo-to-3D map generation application. It doesn’t offer many adjustable parameters, but still has a lot more details than the functionally similar Photoshop plugins, and is much easier to operate. Plus, it supports exporting normals, displacement, occlusion, specularity, and diffuse these five types of maps at the same time (i.e.: importing one image will result in five effects of maps simultaneously), as well as real-time preview.

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