AwesomeBump VS laigter

- You can generate some texture maps digitally, there are both online and offline tools for that. The later group includes Materialize and AwesomeBump, among others. Have in mind that generating any of these texture maps with an automatic tool (from an albedo texture) will be less accurate than manually making it yourself, a more laborious process that involves taking pictures with different lighting setups or baking them from a higher poly mesh.

Try making it with Awesome Bump

Awesome Bump is amazing for creating supporting textures, like normal's from a single diffuse texture. It fills in a lot of gaps

AwesomeBump is another free and open-source tool to generate various maps, including the normal map.

Yes it's blender! I just painted normal maps by hand. Red for right side and green for up- It's very quick to do if you master well volume. And the good things, is that it deduce the down, and left.. So it can do cool stuff! If you don't want to paint it, there is this cool software that can do it : https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter

If you need a tool to make normal maps (The tech behind the 2D lighting you desire) I recommend laigter: https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter

Laighter: https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter

it's not even real engineering

I really like the normal maps this tool generates for 2D assets: https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter

There's also Laigter, which makes it incredibly easy to generate normal maps for textures. I've used it for wall and ground textures in the past to great effect. :)

However the march of time continues and searching around there now seems to be a free opensource alternative that you might want to investigate that got an EPIC MegaGrant: Laigter

2D Assets: Piskelapp, Pixelorama, Krita and Figma for Vector Art! Laigter for normal maps of textures.

2) open laigter its free (https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter)