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Gaia Pro 2023 – Terrain & Scene Generator v4.0.5 (Latest version)
Create stunning game environments in minutes with the award-winning Gaia! Generate detailed terrains for any device rapidly without days and weeks of manual work.
Craft Stunning 3D Worlds in Minutes with Gaia Pro 2023!
Gaia makes it easy and fast to create beautiful worlds for console, desktop, mobile & VR. The 2023 release offers more control, flexibility, and support for the latest Unity features, along with a new and streamlined install.
Winner of Unity’s “Best Artistic Tool” award, the wizard-based Gaia simplifies terraforming, texturing, and placement for stylized to photorealistic worlds. Gaia makes generating detailed scenes and levels easy and fast, eliminating weeks of manual work.
The new modular 2023 version lets you choose which components to install to save space in your project. New features include GPU terrain rendering, touch controls, streamlined pipelines, and support from Unity 2022.3 onwards. Backed by the Canopy Community’s forums, tutorials, and active user base, Gaia saves you weeks of work by automating environment creation from start to finish.
New and updated features in Gaia Pro 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 practice.
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!
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! Gaia has consistently been among the most popular tools on the asset store and was awarded “Best Artistic Tool” in the 2020 Unity Awards. Gaia Pro 2023 further evolves the platinum standard for world generation.
Gaia turns weeks and months of effort into hours and days, and with your beautiful worlds sorted, you can focus on creating the gameplay that matters.
Sample Assets:
In addition to the assets that come with Gaia, we are pleased to include sample assets from Synty Studios and 3D Forge. Please go check them out!
Supported Unity Versions & Pipelines:
Gaia Pro 2023 is fully supported and compatible with Unity 2022.3 LTS and upwards and supports all render pipelines.
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.
Video Montage Notes:
The introductory video montage shows a range of scenes created with Gaia and other assets and tools from the Asset Store. The intention 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.
GPU accelerated stamping & spawning
Multi-terrain support for larger environments
Wizard-driven setup optimized for the target platform
Modular design, use as much or as little as you want
Gaia Water System with water shaders & underwater effects
Standard Unity approach to maximize compatibility with other tools
Integration of Unity’s First and Third Person Controller (with touch controls)
Powerful Masking system: Control where assets appear by height, slope, etc.
Use our content or bring your own to customize your look with our powerful and extensible biome system
Design your world by mixing and matching stamps with real-time previews
Includes mesh and vegetation shaders with weather support
World Designer – fully procedural world generator
Integration of Unity’s HDRP Water system
Mesh conversion – terrain to mesh
Builtin, URP, and HDRP support
Lighting, Post FX, Sound FX
Gaia Pro 2023 – Gaia 2023 PLUS:
Multiple pre-configured biomes
Massive world support with streaming
Additional stamping, erosion & masking operations
Low-poly-style & impostor mesh terrain conversion
Modular design, use as much or as little as you want
HQ photogrammetry enhanced biome assets & presets
Terrain addition / deletion support – dynamically grow your world
Biome-Based Stamping – shape your terrain as part of your biome
Multiple skies, lighting (including time of day), VFX & sound fx systems
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)
GAIA API – call Gaia functions within the editor
Gaia Pro 2023 assets and biomes:
9 mesh-based flowers
20 matched PBR terrain texture sets
45 photogrammetry-enhanced trees
11 photogrammetry-enhanced rocks and stones
30 plants and ground covers including mushrooms, flowers, berries & bushes
5 particle systems including birds, butterflies, dust embers, leaves and pollen
5 audio zones, and multiple music tracks and sound fx
Multiple skies and matched lighting and post-fx
GPU instanced terrain details