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---
name: blender-visualization
description: "Guides Deep Motion Editing Blender BVH loading, Eevee/Cycles
rendering, FBX skinning, and FBX-to-BVH conversion with safe command
construction."
disable-model-invocation: true
metadata:
disco-role: operating
license: BSD 2-Clause
---
# Blender visualization
Use this route when a BVH must be loaded, rendered, skinned with an FBX mesh,
or converted through Blender. Blender is a separate runtime: `bpy` and
`mathutils` are not available in ordinary Python. This host did not expose a
Blender executable, so Blender-native execution remains explicitly unverified.
## Route by goal
- **Load or inspect a BVH in Blender**: read
[`references/loading-and-rendering.md`](references/loading-and-rendering.md).
- **Render Eevee/Cycles output**: use
[`scripts/build_blender_command.py`](scripts/build_blender_command.py) with
dry-run first, then read the rendering caveats. For a bounded FBX→BVH
conversion, the builder uses the skill-owned Blender adapter
[`scripts/fbx_to_bvh.py`](scripts/fbx_to_bvh.py), not the source helper's
bulk directory traversal.
- **Skin or convert FBX/BVH**: read
[`references/conversion-and-skinning.md`](references/conversion-and-skinning.md)
and validate both external asset paths before execution.
- **Generate the motion first**: route to
[`motion-retargeting`](../motion-retargeting/SKILL.md) or
[`motion-style-transfer`](../motion-style-transfer/SKILL.md).
## Guardrails
1. Use a Blender 2.80-compatible runtime when following the original scene
scripts; confirm the actual Blender version before relying on `bpy` APIs.
2. Put Blender arguments after the extra `--` separator. Use
`--background --python SCRIPT --` for command-line execution.
3. Remember that BVH height is y-axis while Blender uses z-axis in the source
loader, and the loader normalizes height; floor/camera alignment may need
manual correction.
4. Dry-run the bundled command builder first. It never installs Blender,
downloads FBX assets, or overwrites outputs unless `--execute` is explicit.
`load` and `skin` are interactive scene operations; `render` and
`fbx2bvh` use background mode and require explicit output paths.
Read [`references/troubleshooting.md`](references/troubleshooting.md) for
missing `bpy`, argument separator, renderer, coordinate, and asset failures.
