Release Notes

What's new in Gaea 1.3.2.5?

This is an important maintenance update and we recommend updating.

For more details see the blog post Gaea 1.3.2.

Changelog

Changes in 1.3.2.5

• Gaea could throw an error or crash on startup in some situations.
• File node minor speed improvement for raw files.
• Watson failed to start because of a missing dependency.

Changes in 1.3.2.4

• Rocky's new Fast mode makes it up to 10x faster.
• FIX: Shaper could crash Gaea in a few outlier cases.
• FIX: IceFloe did not render shapes correctly.
• FIX: Repeat has a new Height parameter.
• FIX: Height Picker shortcut would not return data.
• FIX: Erosion Studio was broken. (Sorry it took us so long!)
• FIX: Erosion Studio presets were missing.
• Several minor improvements and efficiencies.

Changes in 1.3.2.3

• 24 new Quickstarts, including extremely complex scenes.
• Build-in Tilt controls for FractalTerraces.
• Prevent flattening in FractalTerraces when modulated.
• Occlusion now has multiple passes.
• Warn about broken nodes before executing build.
• UHJK orbit and incline navigation to augment WASD navigation.
• Aerial Perspective improved.
• Help Shortcuts guide updated.
• Markdown Editor instructions updated.
• Fx now automatically converts color maps to grayscale.
• Maximum size for autosaves in Preferences.
• FIX: Warp would crash if scale was set to 0.
• FIX: Bomber would not honor all inputs.
• FIX: Origami was not determinstic.
• FIX: Unnecessary recovery file for Start.tor
• FIX: RGBSplit would not show output correctly.
• FIX: Connecting FX to Color node would throw an error.
• FIX: Antialiasing was missing in the viewport.
• FIX: Search menu could show up on wrong screen.
• FIX: Some dialogs could crash when closed.

Changes in 1.3.2.2

• CLI to bake TileGates. Run Gaea.Build.exe for help.
• Minor improvements to the Start Screen.
• Gaea will create an untouched backup of a file before opening.
• FIX: Arboreal node would not honor custom input during build.
• FIX: Mask resources would fail to load.
• FIX: Some important internal bugs were fixed.

Changes in 1.3.2.1

• Automatic Underlay selection.
• FIX: Build Manager could unnecessarily reprocess the graph when changing settings.
• FIX: Chokepoint can work with color maps as well as heightfields.
• FIX: Replace Node could work incorrectly in some scenarios.
• FIX: Color space of EXR color maps could be incorrect.
• FIX: Warning when Nahimic tools can interfere with Gaea.
• Additional internal fixes.

Changes in 1.3.2.0

• RockNoise: a new tool for making rocks.
• Obj2Heightfield: Import OBJ files and capture them as heightfields.
• Screenshots: transparent backgrounds, 4x supersampling.
• Screenshots: save quickly to Screenshots folder with automatic filenames.
• Screenshots: new dedicated button in Status Bar.
• Rocky: new mode to make stratified rocks.
• TOR File thumbnails now smaller JPEGs instead of uncompressed PNGs.
• Route node revised.
• More detailed build logs when using automation or Houdini Bridge.
• Outcrops: defaults tweaked.
• Show cumulative build time of select nodes in Status Bar.
• New license management UI in main menu.
• File node: Gaea EXR checkbox renamed to 32-bit EXR to better describe the function.
• Added safety warning to Mesher when using Optimized structure.
• FIX: Optimized mesh output could fail in rare scenarios.
• FIX: Optimized mesh output could crash in Build Swarm.
• FIX: Mesh could incorrectly save during design-time.
• FIX: Mountain could crash if scale was set to 0.
• FIX: Crumble would cause errors when some values were too low.
• FIX: Thumbnail files accessed in Start screen would remain locked during session.
• FIX: Auto Apply in blank file could crash Gaea.
• FIX: Statistics dialog could display cache size incorrectly.
• FIX: Several internal bug fixes and memory improvements.