3D Fantasy Maps with Gaea2 (Part 2: Erosion and texturing)

Here’s part 2 of our tutorial series for creating realistic 3D versions of your fantasy maps. This part will focus on eroding the terrain, adding rivers, lakes, the sea and trees, and then texturing the landscape to make it really pop.

0:00 Introduction
0:48 Erosion
5:45 Rivers
7:40 Lakes and Sea
10:20 Trees
13:38 Texturing Land
24:57 Texturing Sea and Rivers
33:21 Texturing Lakes
36:32 Texturing Trees
37:58 Marking Output Nodes
39:51 Exploring the 4k output
41:16 Build options and wrap up


If you don’t want to do this yourself, or pay for the premium versions of Gaea2 to get the higher quality heightmaps or tiled builds, reach out to us through our Etsy store to organise a commission: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KilroysK...

You can also check out examples of our unofficial fan art interpretations of campaign maps for places like Barovia and Icewind Dale, which are free to download here https://www.myminifactory.com/users/K...

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