| name | orthographic-registration |
| description | Register front, side, back, and top orthographic reference views into a shared Blender coordinate contract. Use when a 3D model must match multi-view wireframes/templates, when side/back/top silhouettes are off, or before adding depth to a front-locked contour model. |
| when_to_use | Multi-view mascot/object reconstruction, depth fitting from side/back/top views, orthographic blueprint alignment, reference planes/cameras with shared scale and centerline. |
| allowed-tools | Read Bash Glob Grep mcp__blender__execute_blender_code mcp__blender__get_scene_info |
Orthographic Registration
This skill prevents the common failure where the front view looks plausible but the side/back/top views are wrong.
Coordinate contract
- Front view defines
X/Z silhouette.
- Side view defines
Y/Z depth envelope.
- Top view defines
X/Y spread.
- Back view defines rear silhouette/material only; it must not rewrite the front silhouette.
Workflow
- Run
scripts/register_views.py on the available view images.
- Create orthographic reference planes/image empties with a single shared scale.
- Align centerline and bbox centers before modeling.
- Lock front X/Z boundary vertices.
- Add Y depth from side/top envelopes using modifiers/displacement or vertex groups.
- Validate all four cameras before export.
Failure policy
If views disagree, front brand read wins. Document the conflict in registration_report.json.
Front-plane rotation rule
In this Blender coordinate convention, the front camera looks along the Y axis and the reference silhouette lives in the X/Z plane. Therefore 2D rotations inside the front view are rotations around the Y axis, not around Z. Use rotation_euler = (0, angle, 0) for 2D component orientation in the front projection. Z rotation spins objects into/out of screen-space incorrectly for X/Z-plane meshes.
Sources distilled
- Blender Image Empty/reference image controls for orthographic blueprints.
- OpenCV homography/alignment and geometric transforms for view registration.
