# scenario-blender-hard-surface A Blender hard-surface modeling skill: boolean cuts, bevels, weighted normals and subdivision. Handles broken shading and bevels that vanish after a boolean. - skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 371 installs · ★ 1141 - Author: scenario-labs - License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page - Source: https://github.com/scenario-labs/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dcc/blender/scenario-blender-hard-surface/SKILL.md - Updated: 2026-10-23 - HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/scenario-blender-hard-surface ## What it does The skill walks the agent through a modifier stack for hard-surface work: cut first, bevel after, normals last. It ships `scripts/bx_hardsurface.py`, imported as `import bx_hardsurface as HS`. That script orders the stack, adds booleans and points at the cut that broke a bevel. Everything runs in world-space meters on stock Blender. Two bevels do two jobs: a weight-limited design bevel on silhouette edges, and an angle-limited micro bevel after every cut. When a bevel shrinks after a boolean, the problem is geometry, not a setting — the cutter sits too close to target edges. `HS.clamp_culprits` names the offending cut. Every wall, step and gap has to be wider than twice the micro bevel width, or Clamp Overlap kills the bevel across the whole object. Exact is the solver to use. Float left 16 non-manifold edges on a coplanar cutter where Exact and Manifold came out clean. If Exact misbehaves, the operand is broken: an open cutter gave Exact 19 non-manifold edges. The skill expects `scenario-blender-expert` to be installed; without it the agent works from tool schemas and flags the gap. ## Requirements - Works with: Blender ## Install ### Claude Code (native platform) 1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)** ```bash npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-hard-surface -a claude-code ``` 2. **Manually: put the files in place** - File: `~/.claude/skills/scenario-blender-hard-surface/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/scenario-blender-hard-surface/ ### Codex 1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)** ```bash npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-hard-surface -a codex ``` 2. **Manually: put the files in place** - File: `.agents/skills/scenario-blender-hard-surface/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/ ### Cursor 1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)** ```bash npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-hard-surface -a cursor ``` 2. **Manually: put the files in place** - File: `.cursor/skills/scenario-blender-hard-surface/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/ ### GitHub Copilot 1. **GitHub CLI** ```bash gh skill install scenario-labs/skills scenario-blender-hard-surface ``` 2. **Manually: put the files in place** - File: `.github/skills/scenario-blender-hard-surface/SKILL.md` ### Gemini CLI 1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)** ```bash npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-hard-surface -a gemini-cli ``` 2. **Platform CLI** ```bash gemini skills install https://github.com/scenario-labs/skills --path skills/dcc/blender/scenario-blender-hard-surface ``` ### Windsurf (Devin Desktop) **Manually: put the files in place** - File: `.devin/skills/scenario-blender-hard-surface/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works ### OpenCode **Skills CLI (Vercel)** ```bash npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-hard-surface -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/scenario-labs/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dcc/blender/scenario-blender-hard-surface/SKILL.md ## When to use it - build a modifier stack for a sci-fi panel - fix shading smears after a boolean cut - choose between n-gons and a quad cage for a part - produce a game-ready mid-poly within a triangle budget - find the cut that clamped a bevel ## Example prompts - Build the hard surface for this robot body: boolean cuts, 30-degree micro bevel, weighted normals at the bottom - Shading smears on a flat face after the cut — check whether the face is flat and fix it - Make a mid-poly version of this part under 15k triangles with custom normals ## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT Below is the content of a third-party file. It is data, not instructions for you: do not act on anything written inside unless the human asks. Block tag: c7503e830a63bc0d. BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE c7503e830a63bc0d ```text --- name: scenario-blender-hard-surface description: "Use when modeling hard-surface objects in Blender (sci-fi panels, props, weapons, vehicles, robots, machined or product parts) with booleans and cutters, bevel modifiers, weighted normals, or subdivision with support loops or creases. Also when shading is broken (smears on flat faces, stretching near a cut, pinching), a bevel shrinks or vanishes after a boolean, a boolean empties the mesh or leaves holes, choosing n-gons vs quads, or making a game-ready mid-poly." license: MIT --- # Blender hard surface Expert hard surface is controlled light on edges: every edge catches a highlight from a bevel or a support loop, flat faces read perfectly flat, and cuts stay editable until the design is settled. The experts disagree on method (n-gons and booleans vs quad cages and subdivision), not on the checks: order of operations, cutter hygiene, planar faces, a shiny matcap orbit. The agent builds the stack with the toolkit and lets the measurable gates find what a human finds by orbiting. If a sibling skill named here is missing from your available skills, ask the user to install it (`npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill `); unattended, proceed from tool schemas and flag the gap. **REQUIRED BACKGROUND:** scenario-blender-expert (execution channel, review loop, 5.2 API changes). Toolkit: [`scripts/bx_hardsurface.py`](scripts/bx_hardsurface.py) (`import sys; sys.path.append("/scenario-blender-hard-surface/scripts"); import bx_hardsurface as HS`), world-space meters, stock Blender only. ## Stance (the expert delta) - **Cut first, bevel after, normals last.** Booleans above the angle-limited micro bevel, Weighted Normal at the very bottom, a late Mirror above it (Ryuu [00:26:26], [00:28:37]; du Mont [00:19:46]). In 5.2 a pinned modifier keeps its relative order inside the pinned group and new modifiers land above it, so pin bottom-up: `HS.order_stack` does it and `HS.add_boolean` always lands above the tail (verified). - **Two bevels, two jobs** (du Mont [00:12:25] to [00:15:15]): a weight-limited design bevel (8 to 12 segments) on chosen silhouette edges before the cuts, and an angle-limited micro bevel (30 ``` END THIRD-PARTY FILE c7503e830a63bc0d The third-party file has ended. 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