Gaea - Lush Valleys & Waterfalls Tutorial 

Agreed

@@TomMAF4 x2 !!

😂 I was sick prior to recording this so it's not the best, but glad you learned something!

They can be used as backgrounds or also Heightmaps can be a starting point for a detailed terrain, almost like a skeleton that you add more things onto. You can load them into Unreal as well and then set dress them (scatter foliage and geometry onto them). For water if I'm going to do the creation of those waterways or rivers in Unreal, there's a great tool for that which will cut into the terrain so usually just a bit of a dip as a guideline in Gaea will do it. If your going to other softwares you can just place a giant plane (water surface) crashing into your terrain so it's revealed by the areas that drop below water level (0 on world axis). Or you can just model a water surface Geometry that sits in those dips. It's really all the same way, cut depth (a dip into your terrain for rivers and lakes) and then go place a water surface (flat plane) to act as the water level. And on that plane you have some sort of animated normal map for water waves/movement. Of course there's more complex setups as well for shorelines and stuff. But that's the basics of it.

just ask gpt

You can find a video of getting the Terrain into Unreal here, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CtoeG4NxgUE.html

You can find the PDF and resources on the Patreon.

For the 3D Shaping Very last node in the 3D Graph. You want to export the node that gives a heightmap, or the last node that modifies the positions of the surface. You can also export to geometry if needed with a Mesher node.

Sometimes, Ill use them to Tint my Detail Maps (Greyscale Textures) in Unreal. But usually the Masks of the Terrain and Details I find more important to use to mask out which details/types of ground go in which places. We can also make blend modes in Unreal that blend textures based on Slope/Angle.etc

​@@renderbucket yeah, i also do that.. but the satmaps colors in gaea mix so good i've been wondering if there is a better way to use them

nevermind, i had mask display reversed in the viewport settings

Aaaaaaand I guess I encountered my first Gaea bug. I had to go through and combine everything without the Fx node. Make sure it's subtract, THEN add the Fx node in between. Interesting way to do things.

Pin as underlay on the last node that shapes the terrain in some way. And pin your color or last node that textures/colors your terrain.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CtoeG4NxgUE.htmlfeature=shared

You can find it on the Patreon along with the PDF and other resources.

Idk bro im asking the same thing

Understood, will do that next time!. You can also download the project files from the Patreon.

I would say otherwise, this way i know what node u are using when u need something. Or which node is needed to sort out something.

50shades is an idiot, ignore them. I found it SO MUCH easier to follow when you brought in each node one by one. I got SO LOST when you were just glossing over the nodes already placed and connected. I loved this so much, I actually made my first decent terrain