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.
AwesomeBump is powerful but easy to use, and provides a lot of flexibility in terms of creating realistic textures for a variety of programs (such as game engines, 3DCG software, 3D printing, and other graphics applications). It runs very fast and all the parameters can be changed in real time, because most of the image processing is done on GPU. Additional features like material textures or grunge maps are available. 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.
AwesomeBump comes with friendly user interface, supports a wide range of image formats, allows to make adjustments to the generated maps, such as brightness, contrast, and saturation, builds in a variety of preset materials that users can customize to their liking, and more. Overall, this is a great tool for anyone who needs to quickly create realistic textures and materials for their projects, whether you are game developer, 3D artist, or graphic designer.
Key Features
- Convert from normal map to height map
- Convert from height map (bump map) to normal map
- Extract the bump from the arbitrary image
- Calculate ambient occlusion and specularity of image
- Perspective transformation of the image
- Creating seamless texture (simple linear filter, random mode, or mirror filter)
- Generate roughness and metallic textures (different types of surface analysis are available)
- Real time tessellation is available
- Saving images to following formats: PNG, JPG,BMP,TGA
- Edit one texture which contains different materials
- Add some grunge to your map with grunge texture
- Mix two bump maps together with normal map mixer
- And many others
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