# blender

Quick reference for Blender workflows, shortcuts, rigging setups, and 3D export pipelines into Unity and Unreal Engine.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 531 installs · ★ 34
- Author: MonumentalSystems
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams/tree/HEAD/teams/3d-design/skills/blender/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-08-11
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/monumentalsystems-blender

## What it does

This skill provides your coding agent with foundational guidance on Blender's interface and 3D production pipeline. It details editor navigation, mesh editing shortcuts like `Ctrl+B` for beveling or `Ctrl+R` for loop cuts, primitive types, and geometry modifiers.

The reference also covers sculpting tools, bone management for Blender 4.0+, and weight painting. Separate guides detail engine export settings. Forgetting to apply transforms with `Ctrl+A` before exporting breaks model alignment. The skill specifies a 1.00 scale with -Z forward for Unity, compared to a 0.01 scale with -X forward for Unreal Engine.

## Requirements
- Works with: Blender

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams --skill blender -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/blender/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/blender/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams --skill blender -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/blender/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams --skill blender -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/blender/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams blender
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/blender/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams --skill blender -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams --path teams/3d-design/skills/blender
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/blender/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams --skill blender -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/MonumentalSystems/Atlas-Agent-Teams/tree/HEAD/teams/3d-design/skills/blender/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- configure FBX export settings for Unreal Engine with 0.01 scale and -X forward axis
- set up character skeletons and constraints using Rigify or human meta-rig templates
- look up modeling shortcuts for mesh operations like bevels, insets, and edge loops
- resolve rotation and scale mismatches when moving assets into Unity

## Example prompts
- What FBX settings should I use to export an animated asset into Unity?
- Show the shortcut keys for switching viewport projection and numpad views in Blender.
- How do I organize bone collections for an armature in Blender 4.0?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: blender
description: Blender interface, workflows, and 3D production pipeline
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# Blender

## Blender Interface and Workflows

### Workspace Layout
- **3D Viewport**: Main viewport for modeling and scene manipulation
- **Outliner**: Hierarchical view of scene objects
- **Properties Panel**: Object, modifier, and material properties
- **Timeline**: Animation timeline and playback controls
- **Graph Editor**: Animation curve editing
- **UV Editor**: UV mapping and texture editing
- **Shader Editor**: Node-based material and shader creation

### Navigation
- **Orbit**: Middle mouse button
- **Pan**: Shift + Middle mouse button
- **Zoom**: Scroll wheel
- **Numpad Views**: 1 (front), 3 (right), 7 (top), 5 (orthographic/perspective)
- **Frame Selected**: Period (.)
- **Frame All**: Home

### Object Modes
- **Object Mode**: Manipulate entire objects
- **Edit Mode**: Edit mesh geometry
- **Sculpt Mode**: Digital sculpting
- **Vertex Paint**: Paint vertex colors
- **Weight Paint**: Paint vertex weights for rigging
- **Texture Paint**: Paint textures directly on model
- **Pose Mode**: Animate rigged characters

## Modeling Tools and Techniques

### Primitives
- **Mesh Primitives**: Cube, Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Torus, Plane, Monkey
- **Curve Primitives**: Bezier, NURBS curves
- **Surface Primitives**: NURBS surfaces
- **Metaballs**: Organic blobby shapes

### Edit Mode Tools
- **Extrude (E)**: Extrude faces, edges, or vertices
- **Inset (I)**: Create inset faces
- **Bevel (Ctrl+B)**: Bevel edges
- **Loop Cut (Ctrl+R)**: Add edge loops
- **Knife Tool (K)**: Cut custom geometry
- **Bridge Edge Loops**: Connect edge loops
- **Merge (Alt+M)**: Merge vertices
- **Dissolve (X)**: Remove geometry while maintaining shape

### Modifiers
- **Subdivision Surface**: Smooth subdivision
- **Mirror**: Mirror geometry across axis
- **Array**: Duplicate geometry in patterns
- **Boolean**: Combine, subtract, or intersect meshes
- **Decimate**: Reduce polygon count
- **Remesh**: Retopologize mesh
- **Shrinkwrap**: Project mesh onto target surface
- **Solidify**: Add thickness to surfaces

## Sculpting and Retopology

### Sculpt Mode
- **Brushes**: Draw, Clay Strips, Crease, Smooth, Inflate
- **Dyntopo**: Dynamic topology for sculpting
- **Multiresolution**: Subdivision sculpting
- **Masking**: Protect areas from sculpting
- **Falloff**: Control brush influence
- **Stroke Settings**: Spacing, jitter, smoothing

### Retopology
- **Shrinkwrap Modifier**: Project new topology onto sculpt
- **Snap to Face**: Snap vertices to surface
- **Poly Build**: Manual retopology tool
- **Bsurface**: Automatic retopology add-on
- **Quad Remesher**: Automatic quad-based retopology

## Blender Rigging and Weight Painting

### Armature
- **Bone Creation**: Add bones to create skeleton
- **Bone Editing**: Edit bone position, rotation, scale
- **Bone Layers**: Organize bones into layers
- **Bone Groups**: Group bones for organization
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