Normal Strength

Normal maps often come out of a bake at the wrong intensity. Detail that looked right in the baker disappears under your game lighting, or a tiling detail map takes over the whole surface. Rebaking to fix that is slow.

This scales the tilt up or down and rebuilds the map so it stays valid. Below 1 flattens the surface, above 1 exaggerates it. Flattening is safe. Pushing it up amplifies whatever noise is already in the map, so keep an eye on the flat areas as you go.

Can I flatten a normal map completely?

Set strength to 0 and every pixel goes flat. Handy as a neutral placeholder.

Why not just use a contrast slider in Photoshop?

Contrast moves the blue channel as well, which leaves you with a map that is no longer a valid normal map. It lights subtly wrong everywhere and it is hard to spot.

All tools

Edge Padding: Bleed UV island colors outward into empty space so textures stop showing dark seams at lower mip levels. Runs in your browser.

ORM Packer: Combine ambient occlusion, roughness and metallic maps into a single packed RGBA texture, with control over which map goes in which channel.

Tiling Checker: Preview a texture tiled 3x3 with the seams highlighted, plus a half-offset view, so visible edges and obvious repetition show up before the asset ships.

Material Preview: Preview albedo, normal and ORM maps together on a lit sphere or cube, without exporting into Unreal or Unity to check how a material looks.

Height to Normal: Convert a height, bump or displacement map into a tangent space normal map, with adjustable strength and a choice of DirectX or OpenGL output.

Combine Normals: Layer a detail normal map over a base one and keep the detail from both, instead of averaging them into something flatter than either.

Levels: Set the black point, white point, midtones and inversion of a roughness, AO, height or mask texture, with a live preview.

Flip Green: Invert the green channel of a normal map to switch it between DirectX and OpenGL, which fixes normals that light inside out.

Rough ↔ Gloss: Convert a roughness map to glossiness or smoothness and back, for assets moving between engines that expect one or the other.

Renormalize: Restore a normal map after resizing, blurring or compression has weakened it, without changing which way any of it points.

Material from Photo: Generate albedo, height, normal, roughness and AO maps from a single photo, as a starting point you then tune.

Seamless Maker: Turn a photo or texture into one that repeats cleanly, by shifting it by half and blending the mismatched edges away.

AO & Curvature: Get ambient occlusion, curvature and cavity maps out of a normal map, with no high-poly mesh and no baker, for edge wear and dirt masks.

Channel Split: Split a packed ORM, RMA or mask texture back into one grayscale map per channel, exported individually or as a zip.