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Craft Stunning 3D Worlds in Minutes with Gaia 2023!

Gaia makes creating beautiful worlds for console, desktop, mobile & VR easy and fast.

Gaia has been under constant development since it launched in 2015, and this new version includes a new modular installation system, support for the latest Unity terrain rendering updates, touch controls, and support for Unity 2022.3 LTS, Unity 6, and above.

Gaia saves you weeks of work so that you can focus on the gameplay that matters.

Why we think you'll like Gaia:

Gaia gives you the workflow you prefer, from artist-driven to fully procedural, to deliver simple, fast, and pretty terra-forming, texturing, planting, and placement for everything from low poly stylized through to high-end photo-realistic environments.

Gaia saves time, money, and frustration, by integrating what would typically be many expensive and complicated systems into one simple wizard-based system that automates the majority of the effort needed to make playable levels.

Gaia is backed by our Canopy Community, with forums, a library with video and written articles that go over and above to teach you not only about Gaia but also things like level design, lighting, optimization, and more, and you can share your journey with our thriving and helpful community.

Gaia is extensible. We have created Game Ready Levels, Procedural Spawner Packs, Stamp Packs, and Micro Biomes that make creating new and exciting variations on your levels easy. With GeNa Pro, you can further dress your levels to add roads, rivers, lakes, spline-based extrusions, and even sophisticated procedural structures and villages to make your scenes more interesting.

Gaia is used in education, defense, simulations, and games such as Zenith, Last Epoch, and Crowfall. Even NASA uses Gaia!

Typical Workflow:

With Gaia you will:

Select your world size, biome, and target platform
Procedurally (or manually) generate your base terrain
Procedurally texture, plant, and populate based on the biome you choose
Optionally export versions of your world optimized for mobile or MMO's
Set your lighting, wind, water, controllers, culling, and post fx with a click
Press play and explore your world.

Sample Biomes & Assets:

Gaia 2023 comes with a minimal set of sample assets to give you a sense of what Gaia does, and to help you to learn how to use them. This helps to keep the price and installation size down.

You can then choose your assets and customize the look and feel of your world to your taste, or you can upgrade to Gaia Pro for a much larger set of photogrametry-based assets and biomes.

In addition to the assets that come with Gaia, we are pleased to include sample assets from Synty Studios and 3D Forge.

New and updated features in Gaia 2023:

Removed legacy content and systems
Improved runtime system: Decoupled components, simplified
Modular installation saves space reduces import time and build size
Project settings panel lists issues with the project and offers automatic fixes
Support for Unity’s new first-person and third-person character controllers
Support and continued development for Unity version 2022.3 and upwards
Support for Unity’s GPU instanced terrain detail (grass) rendering
Support for Assembly definition files for faster compile times
Reorganized folder structure to align with best practices
Removed dependency on Unity’s old input system
Integration of Unity's new HDRP Water system
Improved render pipeline setup process
New HDRP lighting presets.

These new features provide a more refined world-building experience that allows you to bring your creative ideas to life faster and with higher production value. Gaia supports Mobile and VR too!

Should I get Gaia 2023 or Gaia Pro 2023?

Gaia is largely the same code base as Gaia Pro, so this means that the main functionality is the same in both products.

There is no risk to you, as the cost of Gaia is discounted from the cost of the Gaia Pro upgrade, so you should purchase Gaia if you are on a budget, or just want to get a sense of the key workflows.

The things that Gaia Pro adds to Gaia include:

Massive world support with streaming
Additional stamping, erosion & masking operations
Low-poly-style & impostor mesh terrain conversion
Multiple photogrammetry enhanced biomes, assets & presets
Terrain addition/deletion support - dynamically grow your world
Biome-based stamping - shape your terrain as part of your biome
MMO-friendly export for client/server (colliders / addressables)
Terrain stitching - dynamically connect terrains to remove gaps
Weather system with rain and snow support (Built-In and URP)
Multiple skies, lighting, VFX & sound fx systems
GAIA API - call Gaia functions within the editor.

Supported Unity Versions & Pipelines:

Gaia 2023 is fully supported and compatible with Unity 2022.3 LTS, Unity 6 and upwards and supports all render pipelines.

Video Montage Notes:

The introductory video montage shows a range of scenes created with Gaia Pro and other assets and tools from the Asset Store. The workflow for Gaia and Gaia Pro is largely identical, as the two products share 95% of the same code base.

The intention here is to show that magic can happen when you combine tools with art and add a dash of creativity and effort. The video flythroughs were created using Pegasus and recorded with Unity Recorder.

Credits:

Big Environment Pack Reforged, Cartoon Insect Characters, Crest Ocean System HDRP, Fish School Bundle, GeNa Pro, HDRP Time of Day, Jungle - Tropical Vegetation, L.V.E. - Lava & Volcano Environment, Massive Clouds Atmos, SoulLink Spawner, Ultimate Medieval Constructor, Village Exteriors Kit, & Beech Forest Ecosystem (deprecated).

Gaia 2023 - Terrain & Scene Generator