# kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump

AwesomeBump is a free program written using Qt library designed to generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image. Since the image processing is done in 99% on GPU  the program runs very fast and all the parameters can be changed in real time. AB was made to be a new alternative to known gimp plugin called Insane Bump.

Repository: https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesomebump
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2023-01-11T05:36:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4284, "days_push": 1330, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1771, forks 179 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:34.026385+00:00)

## What it is
AwesomeBump is a free open-source desktop application built with Qt that generates normal, height, specular, ambient occlusion, metallic, and roughness textures from a single image. Image processing runs almost entirely on the GPU, enabling real-time parameter adjustments, and it serves as an alternative to Insane Bump and Crazy Bump.

## Use cases
- generate normal maps from a single image
- convert height maps to normal maps and vice versa
- create PBR textures like roughness and metallic maps
- make seamless tiling textures
- extract ambient occlusion from an image
- free alternative to Crazy Bump for texture generation

## When to choose
- you need to derive normal/height/AO/roughness maps from existing images for game or 3D art
- you want real-time GPU-accelerated texture processing
- you want a free alternative to Crazy Bump or Insane Bump

## When to avoid
- you need a plugin inside GIMP or Photoshop rather than a standalone app
- you require actively maintained software with recent updates
- you need batch/CLI texture processing rather than an interactive GUI

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, gpu-computing, gui
- domain: graphics, image-processing
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cpp
- tags: texture-generation, normal-map, height-map, ambient-occlusion, pbr-textures, qt, opengl, 3d-asset-pipeline, game-development, linux, gpu

## Member repositories
- kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.026385+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:26:00.494787+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.026385+00:00, sha 79311ad073bf)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.