# scenario-orbit-views

Builds consistent multi-angle views and 360 turnarounds of a subject from a single image using Blender and Scenario MCP.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 365 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/scenario-orbit-views/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/scenario-orbit-views

## What it does

The skill generates camera turnarounds from one source picture. Standard models drift in scale and posture when prompted to render views from behind. This workflow eliminates guessing. It reconstructs the subject as an untextured 3D mesh, renders clay layouts from target angles, and repaints them using the source image as reference.

MCP tools handle 3D mesh creation, skybox rendering, and final repainting. Blender 4.x or later runs layout renders in your local shell. Helper scripts like `render_grounded.py`, `match_view.py`, and `compose_layout.py` require local Python with Pillow and numpy.

Without a local Blender binary available in the PATH or at `/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender`, the agent aborts before any paid generation steps. No remote MCP tool renders custom camera layouts from a mesh.

## Requirements
- Works with: Blender

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-orbit-views -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-orbit-views -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-orbit-views -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install scenario-labs/skills scenario-orbit-views
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-orbit-views -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/scenario-labs/skills --path skills/scenario-orbit-views
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-orbit-views -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/scenario-orbit-views/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- render a 360-degree orbit turnaround from a single concept art image
- preserve silhouette and ground contact across multiple camera angles
- match the source image's camera elevation and azimuth to a 3D mesh
- generate grounded clay layouts with cast shadows on panorama backdrops

## Example prompts
- Create an 8-angle turnaround and top-down view of hero.png using scenario-orbit-views
- Render rear and profile camera angles for vehicle.png on a skybox background
- Match the camera angle of creature.png and export clay layouts from all sides

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: scenario-orbit-views
description: "Use when a single image of a character, creature, prop, vehicle, or building must be seen from new camera angles through the Scenario MCP server: turnarounds, a 360 orbit, views from behind, above, below, or straight down, consistent multi-angle renders on the same grounded background or on transparency, or novel views that go through a 3D intermediary instead of guessing."
license: MIT
---

# Scenario Orbit Views

## Overview

Asking an image model to "show it from behind" guesses the geometry, and each angle drifts in size,
pose, and ground contact. The reliable route puts a 3D step in the middle: rebuild the subject as an
untextured mesh, render a gray clay layout for every camera, then let a reference-capable image
model repaint each layout from the original picture. The mesh fixes silhouette, scale, and
perspective; the picture supplies identity, colors, and finish. Connection and the core generation
loop: see the `scenario` skill. Image-to-3D model choice: `scenario-3d`. The background panorama:
`scenario-skyboxes`. 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 <name>`); unattended, proceed from
tool schemas and flag the gap.

The Blender steps run locally in a shell with Blender 4.x or later; everything that generates goes
through MCP tools. Check for Blender before the first paid step (on macOS it is usually
`/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender`, not on the PATH). When it is missing, ask the
user to install it, or unattended, stop and report it: no MCP tool renders a mesh from chosen
cameras.

## Quick reference

| Step           | How                                                                                                                                                  |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Source picture | One subject, whole body with margin, plain background, a known camera (slightly above eye level, turned about 30 degrees)                            |
| Mesh           | `recommend` an image-to-3D model, geometry only (texture is not needed), `asset_download` the GLB                                                    |
| World          | A skybox panorama in the same art style, flat open floor all around the viewpoint                                                                    |
| Camera zero    | [render_grounded.py](scripts/render_grounded.py) `--search`, then [match_view.py](scripts/match_view.py), confirmed by eye                           |
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