AwesomeBump vs MechaPaint
AwesomeBump
github.comMechaPaint
mechapaint.comSide by side
| Figure | AwesomeBump | MechaPaint |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · 3D Texturing Software | 8.0 (#11) | 7.4 (#23) |
| License | The project states it is free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or later. | The paid license is perpetual and includes one year of free upgrades; versions received during that year remain usable forever. |
| Purpose | AwesomeBump generates normal, height, specular, ambient occlusion, metallic, and roughness textures from a single image. | MechaPaint is a standalone 3D art application for painting and texturing 3D models. |
Plans
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.
MechaPaint
MechaPaint has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.