NormalMap
Turn height maps or photos into normal maps in your browser
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Generate normal maps from height maps or photos for free. Browser-based normal map generator for Blender, Unity, Unreal and 3D printing. No upload, no sign-up.
PH · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: 3d asset and model generators · 84 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -55% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Developer Tools
- Design
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More like this: all 84 launches in 3d asset and model generators →
Could you build this?
Yes Converting height maps to tangent-space normal maps uses standard Sobel/Scharr filter math easily executed client-side via an HTML5 Canvas or WebGL fragment shader.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 397 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #317 of 398 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- spritefusion-sprite-normals · github · 2026-10-19 · 630 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Texel · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Maptilo · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PixelForge Pro v3.0 · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MountedMaps · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Contour Foundry · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- HeightComparison3D · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Globestudio · ph · 2026-10-02 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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