Thanks for your review. World building is difficult. To invent and make a process that "just works" is a massive task, and we have been refining it for over 10 years now. The vast majority is hidden from you, and most of the work flows are pretty trivial to use. The complexity comes when you dig down into the tooling more deeply, but even then we give you the ability to visualize what the rule does, and what it affects in real time, and there are video tutorials on how to do this. That's not the sort of thing you put in a quick start guide without overwhelming people. To address your concerns about our tutorials, I agree that it is time to do a new pass on them. The core work flows have not changed as they just work, however some of the details have, and there is a whole bunch of cool stuff that we have added over the past 4 years. We will update them over the coming month or so. Its a massive and very time consuming task as Gaia is a large and deep product. I don't agree with your comment on support. We have a dedicated full time support person, we track the emails, and we have a forum called canopy that has a large and searchable set of forums, where our support can easily be seen. Some things do slip through the cracks, and perhaps your message got missed. To provide some perspective, try and get to a human and get support from Google :/ I am deep into AI at moment, and have been for the past several years, and simplifying, streamlining and improving our entire process and the way we operate, including support, is something I am actively investigating. AI has significant and real challenges that have to be overcome as well.

Thanks for the positive feedback! Building test environments is indeed an underrated use case for Gaia - it can be useful for quickly generating different types of terrains to test a certain game mechanic, character movement, etc. against to see how they behave on different terrain shapes and environments.

Thanks for your review. Gaia has been actively developed and supported since 2012, and as Unity versions evolve, so does Gaia. We offer a range of versions to cater to different needs and skill levels. In our latest release during the 2025 Black Friday sale, which we gave to all of our Gaia Pro VS customers for FREE, we added a very cool Book of the Dead biome pack, new lighting profiles to go with it, and 140 high-quality themed stamps. We also threw in our GTS terrain shader, and our intention by adding so much more capability is to make Gaia the best value terrain generation tool on the asset store. Gaia Pro VS does not seek to be a lighting tool. It's a terrain generation and streaming tool with many value-adds. Why do we do this? Because we want people to get the best experience we can, and because it's convenient to click a button in a wizard to have things set up for you automatically. Gaia offers these systems, but they are 100% optional, so that you can swap in your own preferred system or workflow. We understand your point that this can be confusing, but we hope this is a strength, as you now have a wide range of content and capabilities at your disposal, not just from us but from the community as a whole. In terms of documentation, because it is so deep after 10 years of development, it's impossible to detail everything. It comes with a 100-page guide, and all the systems are self-documenting via the ? icon in the interface. There are also many videos. We focus on documenting core features rather than addons. From a developer's perspective, we hear you about the API documentation and will add it to our guide in a future release. We have an active support team. We respond to all enquiries and do our best to provide our customers with what they need to be successful. If there is something we can do for you, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us.

Thank you for your support over the years! We have a big thanks coming your way in the next few weeks! We are making our stamp mega pack available FREE for all Gaia Pro VS users, AND.... We are repackaging and updating the content from the Book of the Dead, and adding in a few surprises of our own, with another FREE upgrade. Watch this space :)

Thanks very much for your kind review - we really appreciate it! Interestingly, Gaia Pro VS is also used by large teams, and I just spent a year working on a project with one for a very large environment. We have a new product Storm which you can get directly from us, and this takes both the performance, and visuals to an entirely new level. Our goal with Storm is to deliver both the natural, and the built world, at up to 10x the framerates possible with Unity, and AAA levels of quality.

Thanks for your review. Your talent speaks for itself. Super proud to have you as a customer.

Thanks for your review. It's funny, but the thing that drove me to create Gaia in the first place was making my worlds in Unity by hand, and I know that Gaia does a far better job, and faster, than I ever could. It appears that your primary concern is the culling distance of your trees. Gaia provides defaults in the trees themselves and also features a culling system to help balance performance against the amount of content being rendered, which is easily adjustable. You are welcome to contact support@procedural-worlds.com if you need assistance with adjusting this.

Thanks for your review! Glad you are enjoying Gaia. We have some cool new features coming soon that make it even easier to create larger worlds!

Thanks for the review! Glad you are enjoying Gaia. We put a lot of effort into our tools, and we have even more cool features coming in the next month or so.

Thanks so much for the review. Glad you like the tools, and I am very appreciative of the kind words!