Gaea 1.3 released

Quadspinner has announced the release of Gaea 1.3, a major update to its standalone landscape modelling and texturing tool. New features include:

• Improvements to stability and performance  in some cases up to 30% faster compared to version 1.2
• A new Rivers node that is able to create large intricate river networks. 
• Several new nodes including Canyon, Craterfield, Distance, Driftnoise, Gabo, Hill, Loop, Repeat, Rivers, Rocky, Rugged, Sea, Seamless, Slump, SoftClip, Sunlight and Wizard.
• Inset and Embed modes in the Combine node introduce new ways to merge two terrains. 
• A new “Sophia Engine” for meshing terrains that creates highly optimised meshes. In some cases reducing poly counts by up to 60%.
• A new Wizard node that offers a new way to use Gaea’s erosion simulation through an easier interface with simple choices, and built-in recipes and passes.
• Sediment Removal added to the Erosion, Wizard, and Thermal nodes that can arbitrarily remove sediments generated from the erosive process to reveal deep crevices.
• ThermalShaper that produces shapes close to a thermal erosion simulation.
• A new Seamless node that can transform any terrain into a repeatable/tileable one.
• Over 110 new quickstart files. 
• A new turntable animator.
• The ability to exceed the 8k build restriction by breaking the landscape into smaller tiles. 
• A rewritten build swarm that’s more efficient and releases unused memory faster. 
• Several altitude sensitive parameters now have a height picker for selecting a value directly from the mesh. 
• Atmospheric perspective in the skybox.
• The ability to run loops with LoopBegin and LoopEnd utility nodes. 

Read more about these features in the Gaea blog.