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Normal Maps

Lights in your scene, and sprites that still look flat? Make normal, height, specular and occlusion maps for any sprite, sheet or tile, and watch a light move across them.

Normal maps for 2D lighting, in your browser.

Use it: 3 days for $1 Included in Gridwright with all 31 tools and every pack, $17 a month.

In your browserNothing to installYour work saved to your accountOpens on any device you sign in on

Normal Maps at work
Normal Maps at work in your browser.

What Normal Maps does

2D lights in Godot and Unity only show depth when a sprite has a normal map, and painting one by hand is slow. Normal Maps makes normal, height, specular and occlusion maps for sprites, sprite sheets and tiles.

It is built for pixel art: every pixel snaps to clean light directions, so the light falls in crisp bands and never in a blurry gradient. A light follows your mouse while you set the bevel and the detail, you pick OpenGL or DirectX normals, and a lit GIF for your devlog saves with the maps.

How it works

  1. Open a sprite, a sprite sheet or a tileset and set the frame size.
  2. Set the bevel and the detail; watch the live light.
  3. Pick OpenGL or DirectX normals.
  4. Save the maps (and a lit GIF for your devlog).

What you get out

  • Normal, height, specular, AO maps
  • Lit GIF
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Packs to use it with

2D Lights & GlowEffectsScreen TransitionsEffectsExplosionsEffectsHorror VFXEffects

More tools to effects and light

Particle FX BakerLooping pixel-art effectsCRT FilterRetro screen looks for screenshots and trailers

FAQ

Is Normal Maps free?

Normal Maps is part of Gridwright: every tool and every asset pack for $17 a month, and you can start with 3 days for $1. It runs in your browser, with nothing to install.

Can I download Normal Maps?

No. Normal Maps runs inside Gridwright, in your browser, and what you make there is saved to your account, so it is on every device you sign in on. What it exports (your sprites, maps, sounds and engine files) downloads to your computer and stays yours.

What does Normal Maps export?

Normal Maps exports Normal, height, specular, AO maps, Lit GIF.

Does Normal Maps work with Godot?

Yes. Everything it makes is a standard file (PNG and friends) that Godot, Unity and every other engine opens.

Can I use what I make in a commercial game?

Yes. What you make with the Gridwright tools goes into free and commercial games on any platform.

Your game, looking finished

Every Gridwright asset pack, made to fit together, and all 31 tools for the fiddly work, with every new release, for $17 a month. Try it in your own game first: 3 days for $1, cancel any time.

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