AwesomeBump vs Filter Forge
AwesomeBump
github.comFilter Forge
filterforge.comSide by side
| Figure | AwesomeBump | Filter Forge |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $12/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 9 |
| Spec score · 3D Texturing Software | 8.0 (#11) | 8.1 (#8) |
| Spec score · Game Texture Software | 7.8 (#19) | 7.9 (#17) |
| Purpose | AwesomeBump generates normal, height, specular, ambient occlusion, metallic, and roughness textures from a single image. | Filter Forge provides photo effects, seamless textures, and an editor for creating custom filters. |
Plans
Filter Forge
- Professional Edition — 1-month subscription$12 a month
- Studio Edition — 1-month subscription$19 a month
- Professional Edition — 3-month subscription$29, paid once
- Studio Edition — 3-month subscription$49, paid once
- Basic Edition — permanent license$59, paid once
- Professional Edition — permanent license$139, paid once
- Studio Edition — permanent license$259, paid once
- Professional Edition plus lifetime upgrades$288, paid once
- Studio Edition plus lifetime upgrades$538, paid once
In their own words
AwesomeBump
AwesomeBump creates material textures from a single image, including normal, height, specular, ambient occlusion, metallic and roughness maps. It can convert normal maps to height maps and height maps to normal maps, as well as extract bump information from an image. Other tools include seamless texture creation, perspective transformation, real-time tessellation, grunge maps, material textures and bump-map mixing. The maker says 99% of image processing happens on the GPU, with parameters adjustable in real time. Images can be saved as PNG, JPG, BMP or TGA. The project is free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or later, with support for Windows, Linux and macOS. The README links Windows 5.1 binaries for Windows 7, 8 and 10, and Linux builds for Ubuntu 18 and Ubuntu 14. Build instructions require graphics hardware supporting OpenGL 4.0; an OpenGL 3.3 build is available without tessellation. The README also warns that the current CMake script does not work.
Filter Forge
Filter Forge has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.