# NormalMapAI: Browser-Based AI Normal Map & PBR Texture Map Generator
[NormalMapAI Online 3D Normal Map & PBR Texture Studio](https://normalmapai.com/) is a free browser-based 3D material utility that converts 2D images, photos, AI-generated textures, and height maps into production-ready tangent-space normal maps and complete PBR texture packs in seconds.
## Dual Generation Engines
1. **Instant Client-Side Generator**: Generates Normal, Displacement (Height), Ambient Occlusion (AO), Roughness, and Specular maps locally in your browser with zero server uploads and full privacy. Learn the fundamentals in [What Is a Normal Map in 3D Rendering & Game Engines](https://normalmapai.com/blog/what-is-a-normal-map).
2. **Depth Anything V2 AI Engine**: Reconstructs true 3D surface geometry from single photographs without baked directional lighting artifacts, paired with Seamless Tile synthesis and 4x AI Upscaling.
## Live Three.js 3D Preview & Engine Workflows
Preview materials in real time on a sphere, cube, plane, cylinder, or torus with interactive point lighting and HDRI reflections. Toggle Y-channel direction with one click using the [DirectX vs OpenGL Normal Map Green-Channel Handedness Guide](https://normalmapai.com/blog/directx-vs-opengl-normal-map), or follow step-by-step setup tutorials in the [Blender Shader Editor Normal Map & PBR Setup Guide](https://normalmapai.com/blog/how-to-create-normal-map-in-blender), [Unity URP & HDRP Normal Map Import & Material Guide](https://normalmapai.com/blog/normal-map-in-unity), and [Unreal Engine 5 Normal Map & Nanite Displacement Workflow](https://normalmapai.com/blog/normal-map-in-unreal-engine).