Gaea 2 - Beginners Tutorial - Getting Started

A Concise Introductory Tutorial for Gaea 2. Whether you're completely new to Gaea or just getting started, this tutorial covers the essential basics to help you get up and running. I’ll walk you through the key features needed to begin creating landscape heightmaps and diffuse textures. For your convenience, the tutorial is divided into clear chapters, so you can easily skip to the topics that interest you most. Gaea is a powerful and intuitive tool for procedural terrain generation, making it both enjoyable and rewarding to use. While this guide provides a solid foundation, it only scratches the surface of Gaea’s full capabilities. If you have any questions, feel free to ask—and stay tuned for more in-depth tutorials as I expand this series! Chapters: 00:00 Intro and short Overview of User Interface. 00:52 Moving the Landscape Preview. 01:20 Primitives and Terrain Nodes. 02:30 Adding Nodes. 04:45 Node properties panel. 06:10 Forcing a preview at a specific point in a node chain. 07:25 Preview Resolution. 08:40 Modifier Stack. 09:39 Short Overview of the remaining toolbox categories. 13:20 Adding a portal. 13:45 Texturing. 15:50 Combining nodes. 19:45 Exporting out height and diffuse maps. This tutorial only touches the service of Gaea and its many functions. For further details please ask a question or my plan is to upload a series of tutorials for Gaea. Further Links: Gaea Documentation: https://docs.gaea.app/ Discord: / discord Website: https://www.motionforgepictures.com Support: https://www.ko-fi.com/motionforge