alt Hacker News> improve foundational features like the Blender Python API, which enables developers and artists alike
So they want claude to be able to talk to blender
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There's already an MCP for it, saw a post on LinkedIn the other day about it.
Not sure if this one was the one I saw, but Google gave me this one. You could use Claude Code to build things with Blender.
We (I) need that.
"Some software" is approaching levels of complexity where, perhaps, it gets to a point where a human is barely able to even use it.
At the same time (brave new world) LLM assisted software opens up the possibility of levels of complexity we would not have considered before.
There is already a Blender MCP. It works-ish! But could be a lot better in understanding 3D space.
As an amateur this is really exciting - but not sure about folks that are real pros at this stuff.
Frankly, I love the idea of an automation engine printing out tangible works. I actually build spritesheets that way! Load a bunch of individual gimp files as layers, set them offset by a given parameter, and boom, done!
Would be rad to incorporate some statistical procedurally generated designs based on my own aparatus.
What I do not want to see is this realm of LLMs hijacking decades of hard work and consideration for integration channels to more tailor towards their LLMs, not for the diligent engineer.
If they want to put their tentacles as far as they want while making products more difficult to work with innovation of a different color, they are making enemies out of, at least me.
Honestly, I think this is a stepping stone towards replacing industry CAD modeling tools.
AI _can_ work with 3D models already, but it's really bad at it. CAD requires an extra level of control and I think this is where I could see AI companies wanting to get a foot in the door.
e.g "Let's build an adapter between 2in BSP Male and 3/4in NPT Female threads with a third Hose Barb outlet with the following properties..."
Yeah, Google has MuJoCo so it seems natural to get hooks into Blender.
MuBlE: MuJoCo and Blender simulation Environment and Benchmark for Task Planning in Robot Manipulation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02834
This might actually be quite nice - the Blender Python API is currently very useful and very touchy. Lots of differences in behavior in headless mode which are hard to debug (because you can't open the GUI to see what's happening, because that changes the behavior).