Gaia 2021 v 3.4.1

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.4.0

Fixed a bug in Unity versions 2022.2 and lower caused by missing Unity API functions

Gaia 2021 v 3.4.0

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.9

Added compatibility with Unity 2023.1
While creation of this update we found a bug with the terrain detail system in HDRP: If you add terrain details to a terrain in HDRP Unity 2023.1 and the terrain is not positioned at 0,0,0 in the scene, the motion vectors for the details will not be calculated correctly and the vegetation will appear blurry. This seems to be a bug in Unity that appears in projects without Gaia as well.

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.9

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.8

Fixed a bug where spawn areas could be left empty after spawning across multiple terrains

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.8

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.7

Greatly Extended the Quickstart Guide with a lot of additional information
The maintenance popup now points to a new Gaia Tutorial page on Canopy
Gaia will only ask to update terrain shaders to the new render pipeline if terrains are present in the current scene
Gaia will now display materials with updateable shaders in the Render Pipeline settings under the setup tab rather than in the console
Fixed a bug in the spawner where local spawn would bleed beyond the spawner range
Fixed a bug where instanced terrain details would not update correctly when the "update prototype button" was pressed
Fixed a bug where the spawner range was cut short on world spawns when using non "power of two" sized terrains
Fixed outdated links in Window menu

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.7

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.6

Fixed issues with the new Unity 2022.3 LTS release
Added a tool to "Mass Edit" Terrains - this allows you to set all terrains to a specific height or copy settings from one terrain to all other terrains in the scene
Fixed an issue with the Addressable Demo Client when targeting WebGL
Improved handling of Nature Renderer terrain detail prototypes that use multiple LODs

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.6

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.5

Fixed an issue when choosing to delete the original terrains while using the mesh converter
Reviewed outdated links in the UI

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.5

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.4

Fixes the stamper not working correctly in Unity version 2022.2

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.4

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.3

Improved water shader in URP (shadows on the water surface)
Added alternative water shader for VR in URP that is compatible with single pass rendering
Fixed a crash in Unity 2022.2 when adding additional textures to the terrain after the initial world creation
Fixed HDRP Wizard displaying a missing Lookdev Volume profile after switching to HDRP.

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.3

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.2

Added better support for the new terrain detail features added in Unity 2022.2.
New Terrains will now be created with the "Detail Scatter Mode" set to "Instance Count Mode" as this delivers the same results as in previous Gaia versions.
Added all new Terrain Detail Features such as "Align to Ground" in the Detail Prototype Settings in the spawner when running Unity 2022.2.

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.2

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.1

Please note: There is a new option in the Unity Terrain settings called "Detail Scatter Mode". If you are spawning regular terrain details with Gaia, please set this setting to "Instance Count Mode" before spawning; otherwise the details will be very sparse on the terrain. We will release an update shortly to adjust this setting by default on newly created terrains.

Reviewed compatibility with Unity 2022.2 and fixed issues in this new Unity version; Gaia is compatible with Unity 2022.2 now.
Fixed outdated links in the Gaia Manager
Improved Wording in some UI texts

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.2

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.1

Reviewed compatibility with Unity 2022.2 beta and fixed issues stemming from the new Unity version
Fixed outdated links in the Gaia Manager
Improved Wording in some UI texts

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.1

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.3.0

Fixed a bug where the changed behavior of the Unity API lead to errors during the maintenance process
Fixed a bug where certain tools (e.g. World Designer) would not display their UI on the first selection of the tool
Changed absolute path for a shader include file to a relative path so the Gaia installation folder can be changed without having to re-import the shaders.
Improved maintenance process & world creation speed
Gaia will re-assign an already existing HDRP default volume profile during the HDRP setup to prevent the HDRP wizard showing a missing default profile

Gaia 2021 v 3.3.0

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.2.6

Complete overhaul of the Terrain Mesh Exporter - this tool now has improved UI and runs in a coroutine instead of a continuous process. This greatly increases stability when doing exports of larger worlds. It is now also possible to process only a certain selection of terrains.
Added better support for Nature Renderer terrain details with multiple LODs
Added linux code fixes from user feedback
Improved the layer setup for the synty sample assets
Various smaller fixes

Gaia 2021 v 3.2.6

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.2.5

Fixed a bug in the Gaia API with the "Time Of Day enabled" check
Fixed outdated link to the XR controller setup information
Fixed nullref errors when the session is removed from the session manager
Allowed underwater effects UI in gaia water to be visible in HDRP
Fix for setting up GPU instanced detail meshes upon terrain creation

Gaia 2021 v 3.2.5

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.2.4

When saving a biome preset, the settings from the current biome controller will now be saved as well (especially the masks used on the biome controller)
Fixed a bug with spawning gameobjects under a custom transform
Fixed a bug where Gaia would offer the "Install Shaders" button when the shader install was performed already.

Gaia 2021 v 3.2.4a

Hotfix release with additional fixes for compilation errors in v3.2.4

Gaia 2021 v 3.2.4 - Minimum Unity Version: 2020.3

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.2.3

Fixed issues with compilation Errors in HDRP in certain Unity Versions
Removed warnings / smaller issues specific to Unity 2022.1

Gaia 2021 v 3.2.2 - Minimum Unity Version: 2020.3

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.2.1

Improved post processing profile spawning from the Biome Controller
Fixed a bug in the Gaia Manager where switching between the world size presets could lead to a wrong tile height being selected
Fixed a bug with Gaia => GeNa spawn extension with deletion of spawned objects
Fixed smaller issues with player / camera setup in edge cases
Fixed Synty Biome grass spawning into GeNa roads
Fixed issues with upper / lowercase file paths in shaders in linux

Gaia 2021 v 3.2.1 - Minimum Unity Version: 2020.3

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.2.0

Reviewed HDRP pipeline asset for HDRP 12.1 and aligned the settings closer to the Unity defaults
Better handling for diffusion profiles in HDRP on pipeline switch
Improved handling for collision detection when using spawn extensions
Added information about Timeout detection and recovery (TDR) in Windows
Fixed a bug where you would not be able to select the terrain tile height anymore
Adjusted case-sensitive paths in a shader that would cause errors on Linux
Fixed various smaller bugs

Gaia 2021 v 3.2.0 - Minimum Unity Version: 2020.3

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.1.4

Added support for the Intel AI Game Development Toolkit - More info on the Canopy Library and the Intel Project Page
Added start offset setting for Game Object spawns
Added Ellipsis <...> when hiding buttons in the spawner
Added "Always Full Preview" setting for the World Designer
Fixed an issue with the "Build and Deploy" tab where it was not possible to add new scenes to the scene list

Gaia 2021 v 3.1.4 - Minimum Unity Version: 2020.3

This version can be installed directly over the previous Gaia version 3.1.3

Fixed issues with the player setup - Gaia will now leave custom user cameras alone when switching player types or setting up "None" as player type. It will still deactivate the default camera of unity when first setting up a player, since this would lead to a lot of conflicts otherwise when creating a new scene from scratch.
Fixed an issue where Gaia would accumulate a lot of memory at the end of the world generation process for large worlds
Fixed an issue where duplicating terrain texture / layer resources would lead to additional copies of that layer being added
Fixed a compilation error when the XR controller type was used
Changed all help links to point to Canopy library entries instead.
Smaller optimizations when creating a new scene / new terrain

Gaia for Unity 2021