TODO

Check these tools.

• How easy it is to do batch exports ?
• Create batch export tools for most promising solutions.
• Move tested tools to the done section and add a small comment

(Not an exhaustive list, feel free to complete it)

GUI tools

Windows only

• xNormal
• ShaderMap
• Materialize

All platforms

• Laigter : https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter
• Photoshop 3d filter
• Blender
• Sprite Lamp

IA

• Stable Diffusion
• ControlNet : https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/sd-controlnet-normal

Done

Material Map Generator

https://github.com/joeyballentine/Material-Map-Generator
On mac :

py generate.py --cpu

Online tools

• NormalMap-Online : https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/
  Grayscal technique -> lame
• SmartNormal : https://www.smart-page.net/smartnormal/
  Grayscal technique -> better but still meh

Imaginairy normal map

https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginairy-normal-map

Blender

Run blender.sh

Blender DeepBump :

https://github.com/HugoTini/DeepBump

Run this script to generate normalmap by deepbump

python3 dev-version/deepbump/batch_generate.py Inputs Outputs/NormalMaps color_to_normals --color_to_normals-overlap LARGE --verbose

NormalMap Online

Occlusion Map Generator

cd dev-version/normalmap-online
npm install
node javascripts/main.js //the input and output paths are set at main.js file