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Gaea GeoGlyph

Pioneering tools.

Gaea's leading toolsets make realism a baseline. Streamlined workflows let you easily achieve your vision and work in tandem with your team.

Superior erosion.

The industry's most advanced and flexible erosion algorithm empowers you to create unlimited unique and believable terrains.

Artist-centric experience.

Our ultra-modern interface and myriad conveniences stimulate creativity, not constrict it. Working in Gaea is fun and can help you set a new performance standard.

Realism out-of-the-box.
Always.

Even the most basic shapes you create can be naturally authentic, original, and breathtaking. Our superior erosion suite gives you multiple ways to erode your terrains. All processes were designed for maximum appeal with minimum effort.

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Primitive-based creation for instant results.

Primitives and other procedural tools let you put together an entire world fast. Choose from an arsenal of primitives, including hero mountain, mountain range, crater, and dunes - all pre-prepped for erosion.

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It's extremely easy to use, very quick and has a ton of nodes that other packages simply can't compete with.
Kem Yaralioglu
3D Environment Artist, Darewise Entertainment

Gaea replaced every terrain creator in my toolbox. I used to spend hours massaging designs, but with Gaea I get there in minutes.
Conrad Allan
MattePaint.com, Senior Matte Painter: Game of Thrones, Logan, Lost in Space

From the moment QuadSpinner first presented us with an early alpha, we knew Gaea was perfect for what we needed.
Hrvoje Čop
Polymachine

Gaea makes me feel like an alchemist! There's a bit of magic in using real world simulation to create landscapes.
Eric de Broche des Combes
Architect, Luxigon
Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design

The artist-friendly workflow and complex features was one of the many reasons for us to support Gaea right from when it was first announced.
Andras Kavalecz
CheckpointVFX

Thank you for making such a beautiful, functional product. It is a real pleasure to use!
Sergio Lissone
Architectural Concept Designer, Lissone Studios

Draw Mountains.
Sculpt Erosion.

Gaea lets you draw mountains, islands, and continents of any shape and size. Directed Erosion allows you to sculpt erosion in high resolution for fine detailing – an industry first. Even when you sculpt by hand, it remains procedural.

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Data Maps.
Color Synthesis.

Unique Data Maps and color nodes are the foundation of Gaea's color production process. By layering and combining these maps, you can create complex textures that rival actual satellite imagery. The Vegetation node lets you add delicate foliage cover, and the Synth node creates textures from an image with a single click.

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Cutting-edge
workflow.

Gaea offers three different workflows to support your task or mood. Whether prototyping, building complex terrains, or finetuning details, you can enjoy a dedicated, streamlined workflow environment that will ultimately save you time.

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Quality of life.
Always a priority.

Intuitive functionality and ease are inherent in our software. We frequently release features to make your life easier. Even small tweaks in build organization, graph management, and node facilities make a big difference!

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Industry standard
compatibility.

A true team player, Gaea delivers all the tools you expect from an industry standard application. Universal formats let you take your Gaea terrains anywhere and bring data into Gaea from anywhere.

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Command line builds.
Deep automation.

Easily inject Gaea at any point in your pipeline with smart command line automation, logic nodes, and soon a full SDK.

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No-nonsense perpetual licensing.

In the increasingly costly digital industry, licensing simplicity is paramount. Gaea's pricing and licensing model was established for accessibility and ownership, and to help reduce your overheads and frustrations.

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A living, breathing software.

As the Gaea roadmap shows, we have a far-reaching vision of what terrain design should entail. We are actively developing new features and release updates quite frequently. A significant portion of these updates come from user feedback. We take great pride in transforming your ideas into actual features in record time.

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All editions are full featured except for the few edition-based limitations.

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Community

Free Download

1024 x 1024 limit
Read-only Erosion Studio

Indie

$99 / perpetual

4096 x 4096 limit
4K Erosion Studio

Made exclusively for Windows 7 / 10

Requires minimum Intel® i7 or similar, 24GB RAM, 10GB HDD space, and modern GPU with 1GB VRAM, Shader Model 3, DirectX 11 support.

Periodic internet connection required. Enterprise edition users can ask for an offline license.^**

Professional

$199 / perpetual

No resolution limits
Unlimited Erosion Studio
Scripting + Basic Automation^*

Enterprise

$299 / perpetual

No resolution limits
Unlimited Erosion Studio
Advanced Scripting + Full Automation^*
Distributed Builds^*
Offline + Floating^*

Volume Purchases

We provide volume discounts for orders of 5 or more licenses of Professional and Enterprise licenses.

Please contact us for more information.

For Resellers

We can provide reseller discounts for purchases of 5 units or higher. If you need a volume purchase, get in touch.

Site License

$2999 / perpetual

Unlimited installations of Enterprise Edition on any number of machines in a single physical location.

Free maintenance until end-of-service.

Educational

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Special academic licensing options for both individuals and institutions directly related to CG.

^* Some features may be scheduled for future release.

^** Local TCP firewall access required for Gaea on localhost.

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Data Maps.
Color Synthesis.

Data Maps

Data Maps are key to rich color textures. They supply vital terrain information via grayscale masks – exposing hydraulic data (rainfall, wetness, flow velocity), geological details (sediment accumulation, exposed rock surfaces), and ecological data (growth areas based on access to fresh water). They can also generate important data for large scale PBR materials.

Data Maps can be used anywhere in the graph, with or without an erosion node, and can further be utilized on real world satellite scans to generate data masks.

Texture

The Texture node provides a fast and effective way to create complex texture masks for use with any color node. It creates a layered mask consisting of slope, chaotic shapes, erosive detail, and more. The output can be used by itself or combined with other Data Maps for additional complexity.

Fast Prototyping

To make a gradient from scratch, the CLUTer node has all the features of a modern gradient editor. And the SatMap node gives access to over 1000 color gradients made from real world sources and organized into topographic categories. Upholding realistic texture production, these color maps can save you hundreds of hours of manual labor.

Single-Click Textures

The Synth node creates textures from an image with a single click. After registering the color patterns from a photograph or concept art, the gradient editor provides detailed control over every aspect of the coloration process. Post-production options let you quickly alter the texture output.

Vegetation

The Vegetation node can add delicate foliage cover to any color map, eliminating the need to include it in your main gradient. You can select colors from our SatMap collection created from scans of real forests, or create your own.

Biomes

Using rainfall, altitude, and other data, Gaea intelligently crafts entire biome maps, which can serve as the base of your textures or as massive Splat Maps to power hundreds of kilometers of gameplay terrains.

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Quality of life is always a priority.

We have a strong background in user experience and apply that to our software development. Quality of life for the user is the baseline for all we do. Gaea’s intuitive functionality and sleek, modern environment are an example of our passion and commitment.

Auto Layout

Even the most complicated graphs can be automatically organized. Just press F4 in the graph.

MultiMix

Select two or more nodes, and click the MultiMix button to instantly create a sequence of Combine nodes to mix the selected nodes together. For more detailed control, you can select two at a time and MultiMix the results.

Interject Node

Drop a node on a connection and it will interject itself between those two nodes. Drop it on another node and it will be parented to that node. If another sibling node exists, the new node will be organized automatically.

Drop Create

All graph applications require you to drop the node, connect it manually, and then organize as needed. Gaea does that for you! Just drop the node on another node and they'll be connected and auto-organized.

Quick Create

Rather than needing to set up a node and connect it, you can drag a connection into empty space and use the quick create menu.

Graph Styles

We believe that software aesthetics are as important as functionality. If you are going to live in an application, it should be a pleasing experience.

Gaea comes with 3 node styles, and 4 connection routing styles, giving you a wide scope to customize how the graph looks and feels. These styles are also advantageous when presenting graphs in your project portfolio or sharing online.

Portals

Graphs are great, until they become complex. Then it's war between your sanity and the connections, which are fighting, overlapping, and routing around the graph.

Portals are the vanguard of our graph convenience initiative. They not only improve your quality of life, but also dramatically change how you think of and use graphs.

Industry standard
compatibility.

Formats + Export

You can save your terrains in universal formats – whether 16-bit OpenEXR, RAW heightmaps, or meshes and point clouds. You can even export multiple LODs and generate variations.

Automate + Extend

The Open Terrain Format (.TORX) and Gaea Scripting interface offer a flexible and easy-to-code option for automation scenarios. Simply create a terrain through the interface, save it as an Open Terrain, then modify the file directly using your own tools or automate through options within the Build Swarm. In development, Gaea Open API will allow deep manipulation of the platform.

Build Manager

Gaea’s Build Manager is a convenient, unified surface for managing your outputs. It allows you to mark nodes for export. Any node marked for export can be reviewed in the Build Manager before you build. You can toggle individual nodes and even individual outputs when multiple outputs are available.

Builds can be stored in the Build Stack folder or a path of your choosing and organized by time and other criteria. Individual files are automatically named for you.

Distributed Computing (Coming Soon)

Gaea’s Build Swarm helps you efficiently process extremely large or memory-intensive terrains. The Build Swarm can distribute the build process onto multiple computers – including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and other distributed computing services.

Like a network render, different “buckets” are processed on different machines, resulting in a fantastically efficient build. For example, if building a complex 8192 x 8192 terrain takes 45 minutes on your workstation, it could build in under 5 minutes on the cloud or a big network.

Not just for wide-spread builds, if you are creating a massive landscape that is beyond your hardware's capabilities, the Build Swarm can break down the terrain into tiles and process them one at a time.

Gaea supports PNG, TIF, OpenEXR, Wavefront OBJ, Autodesk FBX, XYZ Point Cloud, and more.

A new dawn forterrain design.

Pioneering tools.

Superior erosion.

Artist-centric experience.

Realism out-of-the-box.Always.

Primitive-based creation for instant results.

Draw Mountains.Sculpt Erosion.

Data Maps.Color Synthesis.

Cutting-edgeworkflow.

Quality of life.Always a priority.

Industry standardcompatibility.

Command line builds.Deep automation.

No-nonsense perpetual licensing.

A living, breathing software.

Ready to buy?Select an Edition

Community

Indie

Made exclusively for Windows 7 / 10

Professional

Enterprise

Volume Purchases

For Resellers

Site License

Educational

Realism out-of-the-box.Always.

Erosion

Snow

Thermal Erosion

Natural Phenomena

Primitive-based creation for instant results.

Infinite Mutations

Quickstarts

Draw Mountains.Sculpt Erosion.

Mountains

Islands

Directed Erosion

Command line builds. Deep automation.

Command Line

Automation

Gaea SDK

Interoperability

Data Maps. Color Synthesis.

Data Maps

Texture

Fast Prototyping

Single-Click Textures

Vegetation

Biomes

Quality of life is always a priority.

Auto Layout

MultiMix

Interject Node

Drop Create

Quick Create

Graph Styles

Portals

No-nonsense perpetual licensing.

A living, breathing software.

Industry standardcompatibility.

Formats + Export

Automate + Extend

Build Manager

Distributed Computing (Coming Soon)

Cutting-edgeworkflow.

Graph

Layers

Sculpt

Educational Licenses

INSTITUTIONS

INDIVIDUALS

Site License

Self-Manageable Licenses

A new dawn for
terrain design.

Realism out-of-the-box.
Always.

Draw Mountains.
Sculpt Erosion.

Data Maps.
Color Synthesis.

Cutting-edge
workflow.

Quality of life.
Always a priority.

Industry standard
compatibility.

Command line builds.
Deep automation.

Ready to buy?
Select an Edition

Realism out-of-the-box.
Always.

Primitive-based creation
for instant results.

Draw Mountains.
Sculpt Erosion.

Command line builds.
Deep automation.

Data Maps.
Color Synthesis.

Industry standard
compatibility.

Cutting-edge
workflow.