Blender Skills for Codex

Skills (28)

• blender-addon-development — Write Blender 5.2 add-ons as extensions - blender_manifest.toml, operators/panels/menus/property groups/preferences, bpy.props rules after 5.0, undo/redo, modal and timer patterns, gpu drawing (no bgl), bundling Python wheels, CLI validate/build/install…
• blender-animation — Animation in Blender 5.2 - slotted/layered actions and the channelbag API, Python keyframing, F-curves, game loops with pop/hitch checks, NLA clips, pose library, mocap/BVH/Mixamo retargeting with auto bone maps, baking control rigs to export skeletons, root…
• blender-asset-qa — Mandatory review gate for any mesh or asset created or edited in Blender. Detects z-fighting, floating/detached parts, inverted or inconsistent normals, non-manifold/open geometry, degenerate faces, duplicate verts, n-gons, unapplied scale, UV problems, bad…
• blender-character-rigging — Character rigging in Blender 5.2 - Rigify metarig fit/generate, bone naming/roll/collections, DEF/MCH/control layers, IK/FK, robust skinning (heat + proxy fallback), weight-painting rules, correctives, engine game skeletons (Unity, Unreal, Roblox R15), rig…
• blender-clothing — Game clothing in Blender 5.2 - garments from body regions (ease offset, thickness), skin-weight transfer, hiding covered body faces, cloth-sim draping for folds, body-morph shape keys on garments, layered clothing, pose-aware poke-through checks…
• blender-core — Foundation for any Blender 5.2+ task an agent drives - running bpy via MCP (live) or headless CLI, context overrides, locale-safe node lookup, enum discovery, 5.x API changes, verification. Use first for any Blender, bpy, .blend or 3D-asset request; routes…
• blender-environment-kits — Game environments in Blender 5.2 - terrain from noise or heightmaps (erosion, terraces, play areas, slope/height materials, 16-bit heightmaps + splat maps for UE/Unity), biome scatter by slope/height/mask with Poisson spacing, modular kit metrics and…
• blender-export-pipelines — Export from Blender 5.2 with verified presets - Roblox (FBX/glTF, cages, R15, SurfaceAppearance), Unity (FBX, Humanoid), Unreal (FBX skeletal, Nanite, UCX), Godot/web (GLB, meshopt/Draco, WebP), USD. Scale/axes, smoothing, tangents, leaf bones, clips, batch…
• blender-facial-shapekeys — Facial rigs and shape keys in Blender 5.2 - ARKit 52 blendshapes, visemes for lip-sync, sculpting expressions, splitting symmetric shapes into Left/Right, mirroring, corrective and combination shapes, drivers and control rigs, bone+blendshape hybrids, export…
• blender-game-optimization — Optimize Blender assets for real-time engines - triangle/material/texture/bone budgets per platform (mobile, Roblox, web, VR, console, PC), LOD chains, decimation modes, mesh cleanup, draw-call reduction (material merging, atlases, trim sheets), instancing…
• blender-geometry-nodes — Geometry Nodes in Blender 5.2 - fields, domains, attributes, instancing, zones (simulation/repeat/for-each), closures/bundles, lists, SDF grids, node tools, baking, plus a JSON-to-node-tree builder and socket inspector. Use for scattering, procedural…
• blender-hair-grooming — Hair and fur in Blender 5.2 - hair curves on a surface, guides + interpolated children with the bundled hair node assets (clump, curl, noise, droop), density masks, Principled Hair BSDF (melanin), Curves Sculpt combing, 5.2 node Hair Dynamics, game hair…
• blender-hardsurface-modeling — Hard-surface and prop modeling in Blender 5.2 - blockout-to-detail flow, non-destructive modifier stacks (Mirror, Boolean Exact/Manifold, Bevel, Weighted Normal, Smooth by Angle), mid-poly vs subdivision vs high-to-low workflows, shading/custom normals…
• blender-lighting-lookdev — Lighting, cameras and look-dev in Blender 5.2 - studio 3-point and product lighting, HDRI environments, sun/sky exteriors, interiors, light linking, physically based light units, camera focal lengths/composition/DOF, cyclorama backdrops, looping turntables…
• blender-pbr-materials — Physically based materials in Blender 5.2 - metal/roughness rules, Principled BSDF inputs, color spaces (sRGB vs Non-Color), measured albedo/F0 values, texture-set auto-wiring, ORM channel packing, DirectX vs OpenGL normals, alpha modes, displacement, view…
• blender-pipeline-automation — Automate Blender 5.2 at scale - headless CLI flags, batch convert/inventory/run-any-skill-script over folders of .blend/.fbx/.glb/.obj/.usd, sharding, bpy pip module, library linking, path management, render-farm and CI patterns. Use for batch jobs, format…
• blender-rendering — Render with Blender 5.2 Cycles/EEVEE/Workbench - quality presets, GPU setup, adaptive sampling, denoising, light paths, color management (AgX, Khronos PBR Neutral, ACES), PNG/EXR/MP4 output, passes, the 5.0 compositor API, CLI and multi-camera batch…
• blender-retopology-uv — Retopology and UVs in Blender 5.2 - auto retopo (Quadriflow, Decimate, planar), deformation edge flow, seams, unwrap (Angle Based, Minimum Stretch, Smart), pixel-margin packing, texel density measure/set, lightmap UV2, UDIMs, mirrored UVs. Use to turn…
• blender-scene-setup — Set up and audit Blender scenes the way studios do - units and real-world scale, collection layout, naming conventions (SM_/SK_/T_/M_), origins, linking vs appending, library overrides, asset libraries and catalogs, collection exporters, orphan/path cleanup…
• blender-sculpting — Sculpting in Blender 5.2 - base-to-detail workflow, voxel remesh, dyntopo, multires, 5.x brush types, masks/face sets, symmetry, plus headless-safe procedural ops for agents (remesh, symmetrize, multires, inflate, noise detail, smooth) and the sculpt-to-game…
• blender-simulation — Physics in Blender 5.2 - rigid bodies (density mass, shapes, bake to keys), classic cloth presets and pinning, new node-based Cloth/Hair Dynamics (XPBD, Collider, effectors), Mantaflow fluids, hair curves, GN simulation zones, headless baking. Use for…
• blender-stylized-npr — Stylized / NPR looks in Blender 5.2 - toon and cel shading (bands, shadow tint, rim, hard specular), anime faces with custom normals, inverted-hull outlines with smoothed outline normals for game engines, Line Art and Freestyle lines, Grease Pencil drawing…
• blender-texture-baking — Bake texture maps in Blender 5.2 Cycles - high-to-low normal maps with cage/extrusion, AO, curvature, ID, thickness, base color/roughness/metallic from procedurals, ORM packing, OpenGL vs DirectX, margins, GPU baking, fixing skewing/waviness/seams. Use when…
• blender-texturing — Texture authoring in Blender 5.2 - smart-material layers (edge wear, cavity grime, dust, rust, roughness breakup) from curvature/AO masks, z-fight-safe decal and sticker placement, trim sheets, tiling + vertex-color blends, texture painting, baking the look…
• blender-time-of-day — Time of day and atmosphere in Blender 5.2 - measured sky + sun for dawn, morning, noon, golden hour, sunset, blue hour, overcast, night/moonlight with stars and city glow, exposure balance, height fog from visibility, god rays, Cycles vs EEVEE volumes…
• blender-video-editing
• blender-weather-fx
• blender-workflow-recipes