[FREE] 2D Chess Sets Pack 1

48 chess pieces as sprite sheets. Four complete sets, each with king, queen, bishop, knight, rook and pawn in a light and a dark version, the same sets as the 3D Chess Sets Pack 1. 30 rotations, 3 sizes, with albedo, normal and height maps.

The four sets:

• Bauhaus. Stacked geometric primitives in matte lacquered wood. Cream with a cobalt band, charcoal with a mustard band.
• Art Deco. Stepped, fluted columns with brass trim. Ivory marble and black onyx.
• Sci-fi. Capsule shells on hexagonal bases with one light line. White with cyan, gunmetal with orange.
• Egyptian. Carved stone with gold bands. Sandstone with a lapis inlay, basalt with a turquoise inlay. Double crown king, lotus queen, obelisk bishop, Anubis knight, pylon rook, scarab pawn.

Bauhaus	Art Deco
Sci-fi	Egyptian

What's in the box:

• 48 pieces. Four sets of twelve, light and dark of each.
• 30 angles each. 12 degree steps on 8 by 4 sheets.
• 3 sizes. 48, 64 and 96 px tall, at 25 degrees of elevation.
• 2 lightings. Studio, and a sun that casts a shadow.
• 5 colorings. Full color, 16 color, 16 color dithered, custom palette, custom palette dithered.
• Normal and height maps per angle, per size.
• PNG. 1,728 transparent sprite sheets, 36 per piece.
• CC0 license. Commercial use, modify, remix. No attribution required.

Sprite sheets

One sheet per piece, size, lighting and coloring: 30 rotation frames in an 8 by 4 grid. Files are named sprite/{size}_{lighting}/{set}_{piece}_{palette}.png, with normals/{size}/{set}_{piece}.png and heightmaps/{size}/{set}_{piece}.png alongside, so the albedo, normal and height frames of a piece line up cell for cell.

Normal and height maps

Each map ships per angle, per size, for relighting, parallax, depth fog and silhouette effects in a 2D pipeline.

Albedo .png, 8-bit RGBA

Normal .png, OpenGL Y+

Height .png, 8-bit gray

Map	Format	What it drives
Albedo	PNG, 8-bit RGBA	Diffuse color. The classic sprite.
Normal	PNG, OpenGL Y+	Per-pixel surface direction. Dot with a light direction for relighting.
Height	PNG, 8-bit gray	0 to 1 depth. Parallax, fog, water lines, dissolves, ambient occlusion.

• Per-pixel shading: color = albedo * dot(N, L)
• Parallax depth: uv += offset * (h - 0.5)
• Fog by depth: mix(color, fog, depth * fbm)
• Snow on upward faces: tint where dot(N, up) > k

One sprite, many scenes

Every clip uses the same Egyptian knight: the 96 px albedo, its normal map, its height map and a small sprite shader.

Relief and shadow normal, directional light	Point lights normal, 3 RGB	Materialize height reveal
Day and night sun, moon, lantern	Material swap	Dropped item

License: CC0 1.0 Universal

Public-domain dedication.

• ✓ Use commercially. Paid games, free games, prototypes, jams, asset compilations. No royalties, no reporting.
• ✓ Modify and remix. Recolor, re-dither, cut the sheets apart, mix them into your own packs.
• ✗ Don't resell unmodified. Packaging the raw files and selling them on as your own pack is not allowed. Remix work is fine.