Crazy Bump Alternative (Texture maps from a single image)

[Tutorial Doctor]

I haven't been on this site for a long while (was getting more into the programming side of games), but now I need to get back into the art side. 

 

Recently I discovered a Crazy Bump alternative while browsing a forum post on another Crazy Bump alternative.

 

Awesome Bump is a very good free and open sourced alternative to Crazy Bump:

 

Edited January 3, 2015 by Tutorial Doctor

[D3ads]

That is pretty impressive stuff, I love how it renders so easily and you have much more control than you do in Crazybump (at least in the versions I used). Thanks for sharing!

[AyzOn]

Does anyone know why it doesnt want to load my .tga(24bit, compressed) files?

[Squeebo]

That's amazing! Cheers man, thanks for sharing

[Tutorial Doctor]

No problem. I have also found a free and open source alternative to the Unity3D game Engine, I am testing both of these, along with Blender to see if I can get a solid workflow going.

 

It is called Godot:

http://www.godotengine.org/wp/

 

I was there from the beginning when both Game Maker and Unity3D were still not so known. I see the same potential already in Godot (which they say has only been out for a few months.

[Tutorial Doctor]

Version 3 is out with many improvements: