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Laigter generates lighting maps for 2D game art

Laigter is a tool designed to generate various lighting maps for 2D game artwork. It can create normal, parallax, specular, and occlusion maps from existing 2D images. The software offers real-time lighting previews, presets, and command-line interface support for batch processing. AI

IMPACT Niche tooling improvement for 2D game artists.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a software tool for game development, not a core AI release or significant industry event.

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Laigter generates lighting maps for 2D game art

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    🐧 Laigter – generate lighting maps for 2D game artwork Laigter generates normal, parallax, specular and occlusion maps from 2D artwork, with real-time lighting

    🐧 Laigter – generate lighting maps for 2D game artwork Laigter generates normal, parallax, specular and occlusion maps from 2D artwork, with real-time lighting previews, presets and batchable CLI use. The post Laigter – generate lighting maps for 2D ga... 📰 Source: LinuxLinks 🔗 L…