Tag Archives: height map

Industry & Professional

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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[ Linux Software ], Graphic & Image

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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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Graphic & Image

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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Industry & Professional

[v2022.2, v2.7] World Creator – Photorealistic 3D terrain & landscape real-time generator

World Creator (formerly called GeoControl) is a professional and powerful procedural terrain and landscape generating software developed by BiteTheBytes from Germany. It is mainly used to create vivid and lifelike virtual 3D environment for games, movies and artworks. With the creative tools, efficiency improvement, real-time editor, random terrain generation and so on features, World Creator makes the creation of terrains and landscapes become easier, faster and more fun.

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Program & Develop

Aerialod – Interactive 3D terrain generator

Aerialod is a very easy to use, free and open-source 3D terrain generation edge tool, developed by ephtracy (the author of MagicaVoxel). It can help you easily generate various types of terrains, render real satellite data, generate synthetic height maps, use HDR rendering, output maps up to 16K, and much more. This is enough to make it easy and fast for any user who doesn’t know anything about modeling to create a 3D map.

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Industry & Professional

[v16.05] L3DT – Large, pretty 3D terrain maps and textures generator

L3DT (short for Large 3D Terrain) is a realistic and high-quality large 3D worlds (both terrain maps & textures) generator on Windows platform. It’s specially designed for game developers and digital artists, developed by Aaron Torpy (the proprietor of Bundysoft) from Australia.

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