Gaea 2 Beginner Tutorial - Episode 1 - The Basics

This is the first episode of my Gaea 2 beginner tutorial series. In this episode I’m explaining what Gaea is and how to use it to create and texture a basic landscape.

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Project File:

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - What is Gaea?
00:33 - Downloading Gaea
01:10 - The UI
02:22 - What is a Heightmap?
03:29 - Nodes
05:25 - Effects
06:23 - Modifiers
07:24 - Erosion
08:14 - Output Types
09:18 - Snow
09:51 - Texturing
11:21 - Portals
12:17 - Masks
14:40 - Texturing The Snow
15:35 - Procedural Changes
17:37 - Exporting
19:16 - Outro

Music (in order):

[Wernaert]

If you pick the "Industry standard" navigation style in the "Welcome to Gaea 2" window you need to hold ALT to rotate the viewport.
To change this go to Tools -> Options -> Navigation and disable the 3 hold ALT options.

[cooper]

This was so incredibly helpful! I was so sad to see there wasn't a part 2 posted yet, I'm excited to see more!

[paulclavette]

Excellent tutorial to help transitioning to Gaea 2 ! Hope you continue doing more. Sincerely appreciated.... thanks !

[marklavania]

OMG....the expert has spoken. Thanks for this tutorial. Looking forward to more

[angelillomadness]

Just for the fact that you use Enderal soundtrack you earned a subscriber. Such a nice memories come to mind with these songs...Nice video btw but the soundtrack...stunning.

[occristian]

Hey, thanks for sharing this, man. I'm just getting into gaea and this is immensely helpful. Cheers !

[王诩-kv]

I really like your Weekly series! I'm so happy to see you launching tutorials! I hope to keep updating it! This is very cool.

[WalidDingsdale]

an amazing tutorial finally comes after so many Weekly Gaea Terrains demonstrations, thanks for sharing your insight and personal logical summarization of these GAEA nodes.

[AlphaSutoraiku]

I love that you used Endereal Soundtrack, i just recently started playing this amazing mod.

Thanks for the great Tutorial!

[jameskelly]

great tutorial brother!!! very informative cant wait to finally start making landscapes

[rght_]

yay thanks david I'll be looking into the new gaea after finishing your video - a fellow Worldpainter

[TimSandman-lwjf]

Amazing! Already learned a lot and look forward for the next episodes!

[KilroysKartography]

Outstanding tutorial! Really clear. Looking forward to your future videos 😊

[Creativo]

Excellent Tutorial for the 2.0 version! I'm two week in with learning this program so I really appreciated your easy to follow tutorial, as well as the use of portals. With your exporting into Blender, I've only done a little with that. I felt more comfortable with Unreal. I've also done a bit of practice with Houdini and their terrain mode.

[yashwanthpatcha]

The stuff that I was desperately waiting for!

[stevedoetsch]

Absolutely wonderful tutorial for beginners. Can you do a tutorial on setting up the terrain size, vertical height, and sea level?

[xTTANx]

You just saved my day. Thanks so much for this fantastic tutorial!

[r.o.g.e.r.m.a.c]

Amazing tutorial Thanks for sharing it!

[Umochi]

Looking forward to the episode 2 nice video

[chupapimunano]

right now this is the only video that covers a look into gaea 2 that is both informative and engaging, thank you for the video, would have been nice if you could show how you imported it into blender. still tricky for me and isnt appearing