Knald

What Knald is

Knald is a standalone Windows application that generates textures from high-to-low polygon meshes and 2D sources such as photographs and heightmaps. Its Baker creates textures from polygon meshes, while Color To Normals produces normal maps from images or heightmaps for further processing in the Integrator. Outputs include normal, derivative, displacement or height, ambient occlusion, transmission, concavity, and convexity maps. Knald supports texture baking and physically based rendering workflows. Processing uses single- and double-precision floating point and supports 8-, 16-, and 32-bit image data. The company describes it as suited to physically based pipelines in interactive work, visual arts, and product design. Downloading it requires a supported OpenCL-compatible GPU, and listed compatibility is 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. The 30-day demo costs nothing (30-day demo). The Freelancer License is $100, paid once; it covers individuals or businesses with no more than one director, officer, manager, member, or employee, and allows installation on up to two devices owned by the licensee. The Studio License is $200, paid once.