[System]
You are participating in Blender-Bench, a public benchmark where AI models complete the same Blender task.

Your result will be compared head-to-head with another model. Anyone on the internet can vote based on two equally important published views: a 2D rendered presentation and an interactive 3D scene exported to GLB. Treat neither view as optional; make the result clear and compelling in both.

Complete the request as well as you can. The benchmark does not prescribe a workflow or visual style; use whichever Blender techniques you consider appropriate. Make the important requirements evident in the published result, save a complete scene, and present the work clearly in every requested output.

The 2D presentation is rendered by the benchmark from your saved scene using Cycles at 1536 x 1536, 64 samples, denoising enabled, and GPU acceleration when available with a CPU fallback. It is the native-fidelity view of the Blender scene, so you may use Blender's full feature set. Preview and validate your materials, lighting, color management, and camera composition in Cycles, and do not rely on EEVEE-only effects for the final appearance.

The interactive 3D view is a best-effort GLB export containing geometry, compatible materials, the contestant camera, and supported lights. Because glTF cannot represent every Blender feature, native effects such as particles, hair or curves, volumes, simulations, and some procedural geometry may appear only in the 2D render. The benchmark may also generate a separate preview GLB by baking supported procedural material inputs to textures; this does not convert unsupported geometry or guarantee exact parity with Blender. When practical, keep the core form and scene readable in the 3D view while using the 2D presentation to show native Blender features faithfully.

## Harness Instructions

You are operating Blender through the provided tools. Tool calls execute one at a time, in the order you issue them, against a single live Blender instance — each call sees the state left by the previous one, and issuing several calls in one message gains no parallelism. The scene starts empty. Build what the user's prompt asks for in the current scene. Work step by step and verify your own work.

You are building a real three-dimensional scene, and evaluators judge the whole scene and your final render side by side — an interactive 3D view and a benchmark-generated 360° camera orbit rendered in Cycles from your saved scene appear next to your presentation render, so forms that only read correctly from one angle will show. Build genuine 3D first, then present it well: before you finish, set up a camera and lighting to frame a single, well-composed presentation image of your result — a good scene that happens to have a well-placed camera and lights. The final benchmark capture overrides the scene render settings and renders in Cycles at 1536x1536, 64 samples, with denoising and GPU acceleration (CPU fallback). Preview and validate materials, lighting, color management, and composition in Cycles; do not rely on EEVEE-only effects. Use whatever Blender features best serve the result; a best-effort GLB export is also provided for interactive inspection, and features glTF cannot represent are not expected to survive it. When you are finished, reply with the single word DONE and no tool calls.

[User]
## Task

Complete the following Blender task:

<task>

A warm wooden cabin beside a pond, with a stone chimney, a small dock, and a few trees.

</task>

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "version": "5.1.0",
    "h_cabin": 0.55,
    "h_pond_center": -1.188,
    "shore_cabin_side": 0.194,
    "extent": [
      -34.0,
      34.0,
      -34.0,
      34.0
    ],
    "objects": 2
  },
  "stdout": "{'version': '5.1.0', 'h_cabin': 0.55, 'h_pond_center': -1.188, 'shore_cabin_side': 0.194, 'extent': (-34.0, 34.0, -34.0, 34.0), 'objects': 2}\n"
}

[Assistant] Blender 5.1, good. Terrain and pond water are in place. Now I'll build the log cabin: walls, floor, gable roof, stone chimney, door, windows, and front steps.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 54, in <module>\n  File \"<string>\", line 10, in link_obj\nRuntimeError: Error: Object 'CabinFloor' already in collection 'Scene Collection'\n\n"
}

[Assistant] The cube was already auto-linked. Let me fix the link helper and rerun the cabin build.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 52, in <module>\n  File \"<string>\", line 35, in add_log_axis\n  File \"<string>\", line 20, in make_log\nTypeError: create_cone: keyword \"diameter1\" is invalid for this operator\n"
}

[Assistant] The bmesh cone API changed in Blender 5.x. Let me check the current signature.

[Tool]
{
  "hits": [],
  "truncated": false
}

[Tool]
{
  "hits": [
    {
      "path": "api/bmesh.ops.rst",
      "text": ".. function:: create_cone(bm, cap_ends=False, cap_tris=False, segments=0, radius1=0, radius2=0, depth=0, matrix=mathutils.Matrix.Identity(4), calc_uvs=False)\n\nCreate Cone.\n\nCreates a cone with variable radius at both ends\n\n:param bm: The bmesh to operate on.\n:type bm: bmesh.types.BMesh\n:param cap_ends: Whether or not to fill in the ends with faces.\n:type cap_ends: bool\n:param cap_tris: Fill ends with triangles instead of ngons.\n:type cap_tris: bool\n:param segments: Number of vertices in the base circle.\n:type segments: int\n:param radius1: Radius of one end.\n:type radius1: float\n:param radius2: Radius of the opposite end.\n:type radius2: float\n:param depth: Distance between ends.\n:type depth: float\n:param matrix: Matrix to multiply the new geometry with.\n:type matrix: mathutils.Matrix\n:param calc_uvs: Calculate default UVs.\n:type calc_uvs: bool\n:return: verts:\nOutput verts.\n\ntype list[bmesh.types.BMVert]\n:rtype: dict[str, Any]",
      "breadcrumb": "BMesh Operators (bmesh.ops) > Operator Example",
      "score": 8,
      "index": 0
    }
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  "truncated": false
}

[Assistant] The API uses `radius1`/`radius2`. Fixing and rerunning the cabin build.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin built, objects: 68\n"
}

[Assistant] Cabin structure is built (68 objects). Now I'll create the materials: log wood with grain, roof planks, stone, glass, water, and grass ground.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 29, in <module>\n  File \"<string>\", line 21, in add_tex\nAttributeError: 'ShaderNodeTexNoise' object has no attribute 'scale'\n"
}

[Assistant] Node parameters are dynamic inputs in 5.1. I'll fix the texture helper and redo materials cleanly.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 46, in <module>\n  File \"<string>\", line 20, in add_tex\nRuntimeError: Error: Node type ShaderNodeTexMusgrave undefined\n\n"
}

[Assistant] Musgrave node type is undefined in 5.1. Let me check available texture node types.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "['DistortedNoiseTexture', 'MusgraveTexture', 'NoiseTexture', 'ShaderNodeTexNoise', 'ShaderNodeTexVoronoi', 'ShaderNodeTexWave', 'ShaderNodeTexWhiteNoise', 'TextureNodeTexDistNoise', 'TextureNodeTexMusgrave', 'TextureNodeTexNoise', 'TextureNodeTexVoronoi', 'VoronoiTexture']\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 13, in <module>\nRuntimeError: Error: Node type MusgraveTexture undefined\n\n",
  "stdout": "MusgraveTexture props: ['rna_type', 'name', 'name_full', 'id_type', 'session_uid', 'is_evaluated', 'original', 'users', 'use_fake_user', 'use_extra_user', 'is_embedded_data', 'is_linked_packed', 'is_missing', 'is_runtime_data', 'is_editable', 'tag', 'is_library_indirect', 'library', 'library_weak_reference', 'asset_data', 'override_library', 'preview', 'type', 'use_clamp', 'use_color_ramp', 'color_ramp', 'intensity', 'contrast', 'saturation', 'factor_red', 'factor_green', 'factor_blue', 'use_preview_alpha', 'use_nodes', 'node_tree', 'animation_data', 'musgrave_type', 'dimension_max', 'lacunarity', 'octaves', 'offset', 'gain', 'noise_intensity', 'noise_scale', 'noise_basis', 'nabla']\nShaderNodeTexNoise props: ['rna_type', 'type', 'location', 'location_absolute', 'width', 'height', 'dimensions', 'name', 'label', 'inputs', 'outputs', 'internal_links', 'parent', 'warning_propagation', 'use_custom_color', 'color', 'color_tag', 'select', 'show_options', 'show_preview', 'hide', 'mute', 'show_texture', 'bl_idname', 'bl_label', 'bl_description', 'bl_icon', 'bl_static_type', 'bl_width_default', 'bl_width_min', 'bl_width_max', 'bl_height_default', 'bl_height_min', 'bl_height_max', 'texture_mapping', 'color_mapping', 'noise_dimensions', 'noise_type', 'normalize']\nVoronoi props: ['rna_type', 'type', 'location', 'location_absolute', 'width', 'height', 'dimensions', 'name', 'label', 'inputs', 'outputs', 'internal_links', 'parent', 'warning_propagation', 'use_custom_color', 'color', 'color_tag', 'select', 'show_options', 'show_preview', 'hide', 'mute', 'show_texture', 'bl_idname', 'bl_label', 'bl_description', 'bl_icon', 'bl_static_type', 'bl_width_default', 'bl_width_min', 'bl_width_max', 'bl_height_default', 'bl_height_min', 'bl_height_max', 'texture_mapping', 'color_mapping', 'voronoi_dimensions', 'distance', 'feature', 'normalize']\n"
}

[Assistant] In Blender 5.1, `ShaderNodeTexMusgrave` was replaced by new noise-based nodes. I'll use Noise + Voronoi textures instead and set dynamic inputs by name.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 125, in <module>\nKeyError: 'bpy_prop_collection[key]: key \"Clearcoat Weight\" not found'\n"
}

[Tool]
Error executing tool execute_blender_code: 1 validation error for execute_blender_codeArguments
code
  Field required [type=missing, input_value={'command': 'python -c "\...y\nprint(\'dummy\')\n"'}, input_type=dict]
    For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.13/v/missing

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "[('Base Color', 'Base Color'), ('Metallic', 'Metallic'), ('Roughness', 'Roughness'), ('IOR', 'IOR'), ('Alpha', 'Alpha'), ('Normal', 'Normal'), ('Weight', 'Weight'), ('Diffuse Roughness', 'Diffuse Roughness'), ('Subsurface Weight', 'Subsurface Weight'), ('Subsurface Radius', 'Subsurface Radius'), ('Subsurface Scale', 'Subsurface Scale'), ('Subsurface IOR', 'Subsurface IOR'), ('Subsurface Anisotropy', 'Subsurface Anisotropy'), ('Specular IOR Level', 'Specular IOR Level'), ('Specular Tint', 'Specular Tint'), ('Anisotropic', 'Anisotropic'), ('Anisotropic Rotation', 'Anisotropic Rotation'), ('Tangent', 'Tangent'), ('Transmission Weight', 'Transmission Weight'), ('Coat Weight', 'Coat Weight'), ('Coat Roughness', 'Coat Roughness'), ('Coat IOR', 'Coat IOR'), ('Coat Tint', 'Coat Tint'), ('Coat Normal', 'Coat Normal'), ('Sheen Weight', 'Sheen Weight'), ('Sheen Roughness', 'Sheen Roughness'), ('Sheen Tint', 'Sheen Tint'), ('Emission Color', 'Emission Color'), ('Emission Strength', 'Emission Strength'), ('Thin Film Thickness', 'Thin Film Thickness'), ('Thin Film IOR', 'Thin Film IOR')]\n"
}

[Assistant] Clearcoat was renamed to Coat in 5.1. Rerunning materials with the correct input names.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "materials done: 11\n"
}

[Assistant] All 11 materials are in. Now the dock, trees, and a dirt path.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "dock+trees+path done, objects: 256\n"
}

[Assistant] Now the lighting: warm sun, sky tint, and a fireplace glow through the windows.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "lights done\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "camera at <Vector (11.0000, 7.5000, 1.7500)> rot <Euler (x=1.5359, y=0.0000, z=0.8029), order='XYZ'>\nscene camera: Camera\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "status": "ok",
    "filepath": "<home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\blender_a64992\\blender_mcp\\thumb1.png"
  }
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
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    "window_height": 2054,
    "screen_name": "Layout",
    "workspace": "Layout",
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[Assistant] Let me take a viewport screenshot to inspect the scene.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "exists True size 2289161\nrendered to <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_render.png True 2289161\n"
}

[Tool]
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  "status": "ok",
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[Assistant] The screenshot tool returns no image data, so I'll verify visually via a rendered PNG and inspect it numerically. Let me first analyze the rendered image with Python to check composition and brightness.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "exists True size 2289161\ndims 1536 1536 mean RGB [0.416 0.445 0.28 ]\nmin/max 0.007843137718737125 0.6823529601097107\ncenter [0.125 0.204 0.055]\ntop band mean [0.535 0.555 0.364]\nbottom band mean [0.412 0.406 0.29 ]\n"
}

[Assistant] The render is fairly bright overall. To see the actual image, let me save a small version and check with the screenshot API, or better — verify the scene structure and check for common issues (e.g., geometry clipping, materials). First, let me confirm which objects are visible and check the cabin alignment.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "counts {'MESH': 256, 'LIGHT': 3, 'CAMERA': 1}\nCabinFloor loc <Vector (-4.0000, 1.0000, 0.4700)> dim <Vector (4.2000, 3.2000, 0.1750)>\nRoof loc <Vector (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000)> dim <Vector (10.2000, 7.8000, 2.5600)>\nChimney loc <Vector (-4.5000, -0.6000, 3.6000)> dim <Vector (0.5500, 0.6000, 3.2000)>\nPondWater loc <Vector (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000)> dim <Vector (14.0000, 14.0000, 0.0000)>\nDoor loc <Vector (0.0800, 2.2000, 1.6700)> dim <Vector (0.0600, 0.8500, 1.2500)>\nAwning loc <Vector (0.6000, 2.2000, 3.0500)> dim <Vector (0.5000, 1.6600, 0.0600)>\npond dims <Vector (14.0000, 14.0000, 0.0000)>\ncam dir <Vector (-0.7189, 0.6942, -0.0349)>\ncam loc <Vector (11.0000, 7.5000, 1.7500)>\n"
}

[Assistant] The camera is looking roughly at the cabin area. Let me actually view the rendered output by copying it into the Blender image editor and reading it via the screenshot, or better — I'll analyze the render more carefully for problems. The render shows greenish center (0.125, 0.204, 0.055 — likely foliage/grass), so the cabin may be visible but let me check the actual frame by examining a downscaled ASCII visualization of the luminance.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n  ...:==========================================\n.......:::======================================\n::::::::=====================::::::..  ....=====\n:::::::=====================:::::::::::::.....:=\n-==========================-....:::::...:::::===\n=================::::    .:=====-..........-====\n........::...::-====       ..:==..............==\n......... =========....     ===................=\n...........======.........  .......::::::::.....\n....::::....====...............:::::::::::::::..\n...:::::::...--.::::::::......::::::::::::::::::\n..---::::::..-::::::::::::...:::::::::::::::::::\n..------::::.-:::::::::::::.::::::::::::::::::::\n.--------:::.-:--------:::::::::---:::::::::::::\n----------::.:----------::.::::----------:::--::\n----------::.:------------::::-----------------:\n.-==-------:--------------::--------------------\n--------------------------::--------------------\n----=---------------------:---------------------\n-------------------=------:---------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n-------------------------------------==---------\n-----------------------------------====---------\n---------------------------------==--===--------\n----------------------------------=-------------\n------------------------------------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n---------------------------------------=--------\n------------------------------------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n"
}

[Assistant] The ASCII map is hard to interpret. Let me open the render in an Image Editor and screenshot that area to actually see it.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "switched area\nimage CheckRender <bpy_int[2], Image.size>\n"
}

[Assistant] The screenshot tool returns no data (likely not supported in this environment). I'll rely on numeric analysis plus targeted render-region checks. Let me check where the cabin lands in the frame and whether the pond/cabin are framed well.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (-2.062, 0.009)\ncabin_ridge -> (-2.116, 0.654)\ncabin_left -> (-1.677, 0.053)\ncabin_right -> (-3.117, 0.093)\npond_center -> None\npond_far -> None\npond_near -> None\ndock_start -> None\ndock_end -> None\ndoor -> (-2.319, -0.0)\nchimney -> (-2.631, 0.546)\ntree_back_l -> (-0.991, 0.18)\ntree_back_r -> (-0.819, 0.35)\n"
}

[Assistant] The cabin is at NDC x≈-2 to -3, which is far off-screen to the left (visible range -1..1). My projection math might be off due to focal length handling, but the camera clearly isn't framing the scene well — pond points returned None (behind camera or outside). Let me reposition the camera to properly frame the cabin, pond, and dock from a good angle.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cam loc <Vector (13.5000, 6.5000, 2.6000)> rot <Euler (x=1.5708, y=-0.0000, z=1.9720), order='XYZ'>\ncabin_front_center -> (-2.062, 0.009)\ncabin_ridge -> (-2.116, 0.654)\ncabin_left -> (-1.677, 0.053)\ncabin_right -> (-3.117, 0.093)\npond_center -> None\npond_far -> None\npond_near -> None\ndock_start -> None\ndock_end -> None\ndoor -> (-2.319, -0.0)\nchimney -> (-2.631, 0.546)\ntree_back_l -> (-0.991, 0.18)\ntree_back_r -> (-0.819, 0.35)\n"
}

[Assistant] My manual projection is suspect. Let me use Blender's own `world_to_camera_view` to check framing.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.613, 0.436)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.613, 0.73)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.529, 0.47)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.759, 0.448)\npond_center -> (-0.66, 0.207)\npond_far -> (-0.97, 0.264)\npond_near -> (-0.153, 0.113)\ndock_start -> (-0.148, 0.325)\ndock_end -> (-1.618, 0.253)\ndoor -> (0.609, 0.417)\nchimney -> (0.53, 0.645)\ntree_back_l -> (0.952, 0.579)\ntree_back_r -> (1.14, 0.67)\n"
}

[Assistant] The cabin is on the right side (x≈0.6), pond on the left, but the dock extends off-screen left, and the cabin is too far right. Let me adjust the camera to get a balanced composition: cabin centered-ish, pond + dock visible in foreground, trees framing.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.621, 0.432)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.621, 0.746)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.531, 0.468)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.777, 0.444)\npond_center -> (-0.743, 0.186)\npond_far -> (-1.075, 0.247)\npond_near -> (-0.2, 0.085)\ndock_start -> (-0.194, 0.312)\ndock_end -> (-1.769, 0.235)\ndoor -> (0.616, 0.411)\nchimney -> (0.532, 0.655)\ntree_back_l -> (0.984, 0.585)\ntree_back_r -> (1.186, 0.682)\n"
}

[Assistant] Still off. The dock is off-screen left and the cabin pushed right. I need to move the camera further away/back so both fit. Let me try a wider, more frontal composition.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.631, 0.415)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.63, 0.807)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.577, 0.454)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.734, 0.442)\npond_center -> (-1.056, 0.174)\npond_far -> (-1.207, 0.247)\npond_near -> (-0.756, 0.028)\ndock_start -> (-0.422, 0.295)\ndock_end -> (-1.948, 0.261)\ndoor -> (0.543, 0.398)\nchimney -> (0.536, 0.688)\ntree_back_l -> (1.137, 0.609)\ntree_back_r -> (1.181, 0.815)\n---\ncabin_front_center -> (0.618, 0.424)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.617, 0.776)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.569, 0.458)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.71, 0.448)\npond_center -> (-0.901, 0.206)\npond_far -> (-1.036, 0.272)\npond_near -> (-0.631, 0.075)\ndock_start -> (-0.33, 0.316)\ndock_end -> (-1.703, 0.285)\ndoor -> (0.539, 0.409)\nchimney -> (0.532, 0.669)\ntree_back_l -> (1.073, 0.598)\ntree_back_r -> (1.113, 0.784)\n"
}

[Assistant]
The issue is clear now: the dock runs off to the left far out of frame, and the pond center is far left too. The cabin occupies only the right portion. I need to rethink the composition: move the camera to the east, looking west, so the cabin is left/center and the pond extends right, or better, reposition the dock so it points toward the camera.

The dock currently extends from shore (4.6,-4.9) toward (11.6,-12) — away from the camera position. The camera at (10-16, 8-11) is north of the dock. The dock should point toward the viewer. Let me rotate the dock to point southeast toward the camera-side shore, and place the camera south of the pond looking north at the cabin.

Let me reconsider the whole layout: cabin at (-4,1), pond centered (8,-7). The pond's near shore to the camera should be its south side (y=-13). If the camera is at (6, -16) looking north, the cabin would be behind the pond. Better: camera east of pond at (15, -2) looking west-northwest toward cabin (-4,1). The dock from shore toward the pond center — from (4.6,-4.9) toward (8,-7) — that's toward the pond center, which is toward the west from the camera. That would point mostly away.

Actually, for a classic composition: cabin on the left/center, pond in front stretching to the right, dock reaching from the shore toward the viewer/camera. Camera positioned south-east of the pond, e.g., (10,-10), looking northwest at cabin (-4,1). Then the pond is in the middle foreground, the dock from (4.6,-4.9) extending southwest toward the camera would be visible.

The dock direction (0.70,-0.71) normalized points from shore (4.6,-4.9) to (11.6,-12.0). That's pointing southeast. A camera at (10,-10) is roughly southeast of the shore — so the dock would point somewhat toward the camera.

Let me set the camera at (11, -9, 2.5), target (-3, 1, 2.5). Check the projection.The dock is pointing away from my camera. Let me place the camera south of the pond looking northwest, so the dock points toward the viewer and the pond fills the foreground.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.634, 0.471)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.636, 0.737)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.592, 0.516)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.7, 0.457)\npond_center -> (-0.328, 0.298)\npond_far -> (-0.529, 0.353)\npond_near -> (-0.024, 0.215)\ndock_start -> (-0.004, 0.376)\ndock_end -> (-0.83, 0.345)\ndoor -> (0.583, 0.438)\nchimney -> (0.569, 0.664)\ntree_back_l -> (0.983, 0.609)\ntree_back_r -> (0.925, 0.6)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Better — pond is now left-center, dock visible from (0, 0.38) to (-0.83, 0.35). But the cabin is still far right (x≈0.63) and the dock end at x=-0.83 is near the left edge. I want the cabin more central and the dock clearly in the foreground. The cabin is at x≈0.63, pond center at -0.33 — the whole scene spans -0.85 to 0.98.

Let me pull the camera back and shift the aim left/down so the cabin sits around x=0.55 and the dock sweeps from center toward the lower-left, with pond filling the bottom.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.499, 0.451)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.499, 0.756)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.234, 0.485)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.834, 0.467)\npond_center -> (0.047, -0.34)\npond_far -> (-5.71, -2.167)\npond_near -> (1.181, 0.02)\ndock_start -> (0.307, 0.188)\ndock_end -> (5.196, 3.22)\ndoor -> (0.726, 0.431)\nchimney -> (0.388, 0.677)\ntree_back_l -> (0.606, 0.596)\ntree_back_r -> (1.192, 0.619)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Now the cabin spans x 0.23–0.83 (center ~0.53), pond center at (0.05,-0.34), dock start (0.31,0.19) but dock end goes off to (5.2,3.2) — that means the dock extends toward the upper right, away from the camera (because from this angle, the dock direction points away). The pond near shore at y=0.02 is at the bottom.

Wait — the dock end at (5.2, 3.2) is far off-screen. That means the dock points away from the camera toward the pond's far side. That's wrong for the composition. The dock should point from the shore INTO the pond — which is what it does geometrically — but from the camera's viewpoint, the pond's far side is behind/right.

Actually looking at the layout: the pond is at (8,-7), the dock goes from (4.6,-4.9) toward (11.6,-12). The camera is at (14.5,-6). The dock is to the left of the camera. From the camera, the dock's far end (11.6,-12) is further left AND further away (more negative y, farther from camera at y=-6). So it should project toward the left... but it shows x=5.2? That suggests my projection is inconsistent — the dock end is beyond the pond far edge.

Let me stop guessing and reconsider: The real problem is the dock is oriented the wrong way for a camera on the south side. I should rotate the dock to point from the shore toward the pond's near side (south), i.e., from (4.6,-4.9) toward (4.6,-10) — toward the camera at (14.5,-6) roughly. Then from the camera, the dock would lead from the shore toward the viewer, appearing in the foreground.

Let me rotate the dock direction to point toward the camera-side (south-southwest). The pond edge nearest the camera is around (8,-13). The shore near the dock start is (4.6,-4.9). A dock from (4.6,-4.9) toward (5.5,-9) would point south, into the pond, toward the camera.

Actually the dock should extend from the shore INTO the pond. The pond center is at (8,-7). The dock at (4.6,-4.9) extending toward (8,-7) would reach the pond center — but that's mostly east. From camera (14.5,-6) looking at cabin (-3.5,1), the pond center (8,-7) projects near center-bottom. A dock pointing from (4.6,-4.9) toward (8,-7) — its far end would be near the pond center, which is in the lower middle of the frame. That would look great: the dock juts into the pond toward the camera.

The current dock goes toward (11.6,-12) which is beyond the pond's far south-west edge — wrong, it goes past the pond. I should rebuild the dock to point from the shore toward the pond center.

Let me rebuild the dock with direction from (4.6,-4.9) toward pond center (8,-7), length ~7, so it ends around (7,-6.4).

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "dock rebuilt, objects: 252\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 26, in <module>\nNameError: name 'dirx' is not defined. Did you mean: 'dir'?\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.489, 0.453)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.489, 0.739)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.259, 0.489)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.789, 0.462)\npond_center -> (-0.18, -0.17)\npond_near -> (0.898, 0.04)\ndock_start -> (0.18, 0.213)\ndock_end -> (-1.477, -0.888)\ndoor -> (0.676, 0.428)\nchimney -> (0.384, 0.664)\ndock_end world <Vector (10.9810, -8.8412)>\n"
}

[Assistant]
Now the dock end at (-1.48,-0.89) is off-screen bottom-left, meaning the dock still extends too far left. The dock start is at (0.18,0.21) but it runs past the pond's near edge. The dock is 7.5 long pointing toward pond center; the pond center is at (0.18,-0.17)... wait no, the pond center projects to (-0.18,-0.17), and the dock end (-1.48,-0.89) is beyond the pond center — because the dock extends past the pond center toward the far edge.

The dock from (4.6,-4.9) toward (8,-7) at length 7.5 ends at (10.98,-8.84) — that's beyond the pond center (8,-7), near the pond's far edge (13,-12). The dock is too long and crosses the whole pond. I should shorten it to ~4.5 so it ends around (7.2,-6.3), just inside the pond near the shore, giving a nice jutting dock.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "dock v2, objects: 240\ndock_start (0.18, 0.213)\ndock_end (-0.288, -0.098)\ncabin_ridge (0.489, 0.739)\ncabin_center (0.489, 0.453)\npond_center (-0.18, -0.17)\n"
}

[Assistant] Now the dock spans from (0.18, 0.21) to (-0.29, -0.10) — nicely in the lower-center-left of the frame, leading into the pond. Cabin at (0.49, 0.45) with ridge at 0.74. Let me now render a test and analyze the composition.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_render2.png 2646707\n"
}

[Assistant] The ASCII map is rotated (64 rows shown as columns), but I can see the cabin area (warm 'W' block) and a large bright pond region. Let me verify by sampling pixels at the projected locations of key objects.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_center ndc (0.489, 0.453) px (750, 840) rgb [0.537 0.455 0.322]\ncabin_ridge ndc (0.489, 0.739) px (750, 401) rgb [0.89  0.82  0.694]\ncabin_left ndc (0.259, 0.489) px (398, 785) rgb [0.784 0.737 0.659]\ncabin_right ndc (0.789, 0.462) px (1211, 826) rgb [0.404 0.412 0.255]\npond_center off-screen (-0.18, -0.17)\ndock_start ndc (0.18, 0.238) px (275, 1170) rgb [0.424 0.369 0.302]\ndock_mid off-screen (-0.003, 0.096)\npond_far_edge off-screen (-2.648, -0.651)\npond_near_edge ndc (0.898, 0.04) px (1379, 1474) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\ntree_back_l ndc (0.625, 0.595) px (959, 622) rgb [0.714 0.671 0.573]\ntree_back_r off-screen (1.14, 0.607)\n"
}

[Assistant] The cabin is visible (warm wood tones at center), but the pond center and dock mid are off-screen — the pond is mostly below the frame. The current camera is too low/close, and the dock is at the bottom edge. I need a higher, more pulled-back camera to capture the pond fully with the dock visible. Let me adjust.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.49, 0.717)\ncabin_center -> (0.49, 0.457)\ncabin_left -> (0.281, 0.49)\ncabin_right -> (0.762, 0.466)\npond_center -> (-0.118, -0.109)\npond_near -> (0.862, 0.082)\npond_far -> (-2.362, -0.546)\ndock_start -> (0.209, 0.262)\ndock_end -> (0.043, 0.133)\ntree_back_l -> (0.613, 0.586)\ntree_back_r -> (1.082, 0.597)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Still the pond center is below frame (y<0). The pond's near shore is at (0.86, 0.08) — right at the bottom edge. The problem: the pond sits mostly below the camera's view because the camera is positioned too far north (y=-4) and the pond center is at (8,-7), far south. The camera at y=-4 looking toward (-2,-1) means the pond is behind/below.

Let me reposition the camera to be south-east of the pond, looking north-west. That way the pond is in front (between camera and cabin).

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.602, 0.784)\ncabin_center -> (0.598, 0.502)\ncabin_left -> (0.398, 0.556)\ncabin_right -> (0.877, 0.484)\npond_center -> (-0.144, -0.104)\npond_near -> (0.773, -0.01)\npond_far -> (-1.321, -0.223)\ndock_start -> (0.207, 0.242)\ndock_end -> (-0.0, 0.092)\ntree_back_l -> (0.774, 0.665)\ntree_back_r -> (1.263, 0.614)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Still the pond center is below the frame (y=-0.104). The issue: the pond is at y=-7 but the cabin at y=1 is BEHIND the pond from this camera. The pond is between the camera and cabin, so it should fill the lower part of the frame... but the numbers show pond_center at y=-0.104 (below frame bottom) — meaning the pond is still below the view. That's because the camera is aiming too high (at y=1 cabin), and the pond at y=-7 is far below the aim point.

The geometry: camera at (9,-16.5), aiming at (-3.5,1). The line of sight passes over the pond. The pond center (8,-7) is laterally offset from the aim line. It should appear lower in frame but not off-screen.

The projection says pond_center y=-0.104 — just barely below the bottom edge. I need to tilt the camera down slightly or move it further away. Let me aim lower, at the pond/cabin midpoint, and move camera back.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.476, 0.733)\ncabin_center -> (0.477, 0.467)\ncabin_left -> (0.19, 0.489)\ncabin_right -> (0.761, 0.491)\npond_center -> (1.183, 0.022)\npond_near -> (1.263, 0.241)\npond_far -> (0.86, -0.86)\ndock_start -> (0.824, 0.286)\ndock_end -> (1.086, 0.202)\ntree_back_l -> (0.44, 0.605)\ntree_back_r -> (0.973, 0.605)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Now the cabin is well-framed (0.19-0.76), but the pond is off to the right (x=1.18) — because the pond is east of the cabin, and from this angle it's pushed right. The dock at (0.82-1.09) is also right-of-center. The cabin is left-center, pond right. That's actually a reasonable composition: cabin left, pond right. But the pond far edge is at y=-0.86 (below frame) and near edge at y=0.24. Only the top part of the pond is visible.

The fundamental issue: the pond is huge (radius 7) and located at (8,-7), while the cabin is at (-4,1). They're ~13 units apart. To get both in one frame from a reasonable distance, I need to be quite far back. Let me try a much more pulled-back camera with a moderate lens.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.482, 0.774)\ncabin_center -> (0.483, 0.541)\ncabin_left -> (0.24, 0.562)\ncabin_right -> (0.732, 0.559)\npond_center -> (0.976, 0.088)\npond_near -> (1.137, 0.311)\npond_far -> (0.34, -0.795)\ndock_start -> (0.718, 0.355)\ndock_end -> (0.915, 0.258)\ntree_back_l -> (0.471, 0.667)\ntree_back_r -> (0.934, 0.661)\n"
}

[Assistant] The pond center is still at x=0.98 — off the right edge. The pond is at (8,-7); the camera is at (20,-6) looking toward (-1,-2.5). The pond is far to the right of the view axis. I need to shift the camera aim so the pond comes into view — or move the camera more to the east so it looks at both from a wider angle. Actually the cleanest fix: move the camera to the SOUTH-EAST of the pond, looking NORTH-WEST, so the cabin is on the left and the pond fills the center-right. Let me try camera at (15, -14, 5) aiming at (-1, -1).

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.642, 0.729)\ncabin_center -> (0.637, 0.512)\ncabin_left -> (0.473, 0.553)\ncabin_right -> (0.853, 0.501)\npond_center -> (0.226, 0.153)\npond_near -> (0.787, 0.196)\npond_far -> (-0.437, 0.102)\ndock_start -> (0.395, 0.342)\ndock_end -> (0.298, 0.265)\ntree_back_l -> (0.77, 0.64)\ntree_back_r -> (1.134, 0.597)\n"
}

[Assistant] Now both are visible: pond spans x -0.44 to 0.79, cabin at 0.47-0.85, dock at 0.30-0.40. But the cabin is pushed to the right edge (0.85) and the pond left-of-center. The composition has the cabin on the right, pond center-left. That's workable, but the cabin is a bit cramped. Let me pull back more and shift the aim so both sit nicely: cabin center-right, pond lower-left.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.558, 0.719)\ncabin_center -> (0.557, 0.499)\ncabin_left -> (0.339, 0.523)\ncabin_right -> (0.802, 0.511)\npond_center -> (0.736, 0.123)\npond_near -> (1.098, 0.267)\npond_far -> (-0.12, -0.218)\ndock_start -> (0.637, 0.344)\ndock_end -> (0.73, 0.268)\ntree_back_l -> (0.585, 0.615)\ntree_back_r -> (1.028, 0.612)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Now the cabin is at 0.34-0.80 (center-right), pond center at (0.74, 0.12) — but the pond near edge is off-screen right (1.10). The pond is partially visible in the lower right. The dock at (0.64-0.73) is right of the cabin, in front of the pond. The composition: cabin upper-left-of-center, pond lower-right. That could work — the dock juts into the pond from the shore near the cabin.

Actually, this reads well: cabin on the left, its dock extending down-right into the pond that fills the lower right. Let me render and check.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_render3.png 2554534\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_center ndc (0.515, 0.503) rgb [0.447 0.373 0.251]\ncabin_ridge ndc (0.515, 0.705) rgb [0.553 0.573 0.349]\ncabin_left ndc (0.313, 0.526) rgb [0.314 0.388 0.192]\ncabin_right ndc (0.735, 0.514) rgb [0.678 0.635 0.525]\npond_center ndc (0.669, 0.175) rgb [0.424 0.369 0.302]\ndock_start ndc (0.589, 0.356) rgb [0.769 0.722 0.663]\ndock_end ndc (0.666, 0.291) rgb [0.678 0.627 0.561]\npond_near_edge ndc (0.974, 0.296) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\npond_far_edge off-screen (0.048, -0.074)\ntree_back_l ndc (0.539, 0.616) rgb [0.604 0.514 0.4  ]\ntree_back_r ndc (0.936, 0.606) rgb [0.38  0.471 0.267]\noverall mean [0.407 0.417 0.28 ]\n"
}

[Assistant]
The cabin is visible (wood tones), dock visible, but the "pond center" sample shows dirt color (0.42,0.37,0.30) — that's the ground/path color, not water. The pond might be barely visible or the water is below the ground. The pond far edge is off-screen. The pond is positioned mostly below the frame.

Also the "pond_center" at ndc (0.67, 0.18) shows PathMat color — that suggests the pond water surface is not being rendered there, possibly because the ground mesh covers it or the water is hidden.

Let me check the pond water position vs the ground. The pond center (8,-7) has terrain height -1.19, and the water disc is at z=0.25, radius 7. The ground mesh around the pond dips to -1.19 at center, and the water disc at z=0.25 covers it. But the sample at (8,-7,0) shows dirt — maybe the camera ray hits the water but the water is transparent and shows the ground beneath (transmission), or the water disc is small relative to the pond depression.

Let me verify the pond water is actually at the right place and visible.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "pond loc <Vector (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000)> dims <Vector (14.0000, 14.0000, 0.0000)> verts 72\n(8, -7) terrain -1.188\n(8, -0.6) terrain 0.423\n(8, -13.4) terrain 0.331\n(1.6, -7) terrain 0.416\n(14.4, -7) terrain 0.344\n(4.6, -4.9) terrain -0.281\n(7.2, -6.2) terrain -1.023\npond center surface ndc (0.67, 0.197)\n"
}

[Assistant]
The pond is centered at (8,-7) and its water disc is at z=0.25 with radius 7. The pond center surface projects to (0.67, 0.20) in-frame. But the sampled color there was dirt — meaning the water disc isn't visible. Possible causes: the water disc is below the ground (z=0.25 vs terrain -1.19 — no, water is ABOVE), or the water material is rendering transparent with the ground showing through (transmission weight 1 with no thickness → see-through), or the disc is being clipped.

The water at z=0.25 with the pond depression down to -1.19 means the water surface is 1.4 units ABOVE the pond bottom, but the GROUND at the pond edges (e.g., (8,-0.6) at 0.42) is ABOVE the water level 0.25. So the water disc only shows where the terrain is below 0.25 — but the disc itself is flat at 0.25 and radius 7. The pond rim (terrain at 0.3-0.4) is above water level, so water fills the depression up to 0.25. That should render fine — the water disc should be visible covering the depressed area.

Wait — the issue may be that the water disc is at z=0.25 but the terrain around it is higher, and the camera sees the water from above at an angle... Let me check if the water is actually being rendered. The sampled color 0.42,0.37,0.30 at pond center looks like the PathMat (dirt path) — the path boxes are at z = terrain+0.02. Maybe the path crosses the pond area. Let me check where the path is: path from door (-4,1.2) to shore — the path points go to x=4.2, y=-4.2 (end). That's not over the pond.

Let me look at what's actually at the pond center in the render. Let me render a region and inspect more carefully — or check the pond water in the viewport. First, check if the water disc has a material and is visible.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "materials: ['WaterMat']\nvisible True\nhide_viewport False hide_render False\nwater mat users 1\n node Material Output OUTPUT_MATERIAL\n node Principled BSDF BSDF_PRINCIPLED\n node Noise Texture TEX_NOISE\n node Bump BUMP\n link Principled BSDF -> Material Output\n link Noise Texture -> Bump\n link Bump -> Principled BSDF\n"
}

[Assistant]
The water material is fine. Let me check if the water disc might be underneath the ground mesh — the ground is a 130x130 grid (size 68) whose vertices follow the terrain. The water disc at z=0.25 covers only where terrain < 0.25. But the water disc is a flat circle at z=0.25 with radius 7 — at the pond edges the terrain rises above 0.25, so the disc's outer parts would be buried under the ground mesh. That's fine — the visible part is the depressed area.

But wait: the sample at pond center (8,-7) showed dirt. Let me check what the terrain does around (8,-7): -1.19, so the ground is 1.4 below water. The water should be clearly visible there. Unless the camera ray hits the water at a very grazing angle and the transmission makes it look like the bottom.

Let me render a small crop around the pond center and analyze the pixels there.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "pond center px (1028, 1232)\nregion mean [0.422 0.369 0.301]\nregion min/max [0.42  0.365 0.298] [0.424 0.373 0.306]\nfull-width band around pond row: mean [0.422 0.369 0.301]\n"
}

[Assistant]
The region around the pond center is uniform dirt color (0.42, 0.37, 0.30) — that's exactly the PathMat color. The dirt path boxes are covering the pond area! The path goes from the door toward the shore and ends around (4.2,-4.2), but the boxes are long and rotated — let me check if the path crosses over the pond.

The path curve: x from -4 to 4.2, y from 1.2 to -4.2. The pond starts at (1.6,-7)... The path end (4.2,-4.2) — the pond edge at that latitude is around (1.6,-7) to (14.4,-7). Actually the pond's north edge is at y≈-0.6, so the path ending at y=-4.2 is INSIDE the pond region! The path goes into the pond.

That's the problem — the dirt path runs into the water. I need to shorten the path so it ends at the shore, before the water starts. The pond north edge at x≈4.6 is at y≈-2.5 (edge of the circle at distance 6.4 from (8,-7)). Let me recompute: the pond is a circle radius 6.4 centered (8,-7). At x=4.6, the circle edge is at y = -7 ± sqrt(6.4² - (4.6-8)²) = -7 ± sqrt(40.96-11.56) = -7 ± 5.42. So the north edge at x=4.6 is y=-1.58. The path should end before y=-1.58 at x=4.6.

Let me fix the path to end at the shore.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "path fixed, objects: 239\npath end (2.8000000000000003, -2.2, 0.25191566171183954)\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_render4.png 2554512\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_center ndc (0.515, 0.503) rgb [0.451 0.373 0.251]\ncabin_ridge ndc (0.515, 0.705) rgb [0.553 0.573 0.349]\npond_center_water ndc (0.67, 0.197) rgb [0.424 0.373 0.302]\npond_north_water ndc (0.881, 0.278) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\ndock_start ndc (0.589, 0.356) rgb [0.769 0.722 0.663]\ndock_end ndc (0.666, 0.291) rgb [0.678 0.627 0.561]\ntree_back_l ndc (0.539, 0.616) rgb [0.38  0.333 0.212]\ntree_back_r ndc (0.936, 0.606) rgb [0.38  0.471 0.267]\noverall mean [0.407 0.418 0.28 ]\n"
}

[Assistant]
The pond center STILL shows dirt color (0.42, 0.37, 0.30). The water isn't rendering. Let me investigate — maybe the water disc is being covered by the ground mesh. The ground is a 130x130 grid at size 34, and at the pond the terrain dips to -1.19, but the ground mesh at that point is still a continuous surface — the water disc at z=0.25 sits ABOVE the ground there... unless the ground has vertices that rise above.

Wait — I need to check if the water disc actually covers the camera-ray intersection. The camera ray to (8,-7) at z=0.25 — the ray hits whatever is first. The ground at (8,-7) is at z=-1.19, so the ray should hit the water disc at z=0.25 first. Unless the ground is rendered as a big flat plane at some higher z... Let me check the actual vertex heights of the ground mesh near the pond.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "verts near pond center: 64\nz range -1.229 -0.633\nsample z [-0.795 -0.988 -1.104 -1.096 -1.004]\npond verts z range 0.25 0.25\npond verts count 72\n"
}

[Assistant]
The ground at the pond is at -0.6 to -1.2, and the water disc is at z=0.25 — 1.5 units above. So the water SHOULD be visible. But the render shows dirt. The camera is at (15.5,-15.5,5.0) — the pond center projects to (0.67,0.2). Maybe the pond water disc is small and the camera angle is grazing, or the water is transparent and showing the pond bottom (which has the ground material — but the ground at the bottom would show grass, not this dirt color).

Wait — the dirt color 0.42,0.37,0.30 appears uniformly across the region. That's suspicious. Let me check if the dirt PATH boxes actually cover the whole pond. The path boxes are (0.8, len/2, 0.03) — they're thin. But maybe many boxes overlap the pond area.

Actually, let me check what material is at those pixels directly — render the object index or check what's in front. Better: let me look at the viewport from the camera to see what's actually there. Or render with a different approach — check depth.

[Assistant]
Now I can see the layout: green forest at top, cabin (warm W block) center-left, a large bright area (#/+) bottom — that's likely the pond/water but rendered bright. The dirt color I sampled may be the pond bottom showing through transparent water, or the pond is actually the bright area at bottom.

The map shows:
- Top: green (trees)
- Center-left: warm cabin (W)
- Bottom half: large bright (#/+) region — this is the pond/water area reflecting the bright sky

The pond water is there, but since it's fully transmissive at 0.04 roughness with transmission weight 1, it shows the bright sky reflection and the darker bottom. The sample at pond center (0.67,0.2 in NDC = row 1232, which is near the bottom) shows 0.42,0.37,0.30 — that's in the bright region but muted.

Let me render again and look at whether the water looks like water. The render needs a proper water look. Let me check the actual appearance with a crop of the bottom region, and also fix the camera to compose better. First, let me examine the water appearance in a crop.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "lower third mean [0.437 0.386 0.317]\nlower third std [0.069 0.07  0.073]\npond band mean [0.421 0.369 0.301]\npond band std [0.002 0.002 0.002]\n"
}

[Assistant]
The pond band has near-zero variance (0.002) — perfectly uniform color, which means it's NOT water (water would have some noise variation from the bump/reflection). A perfectly uniform 0.42,0.37,0.30 is the PathMat or GroundMat flat color. The pond water isn't rendering there.

Let me check: is the pond water disc maybe COVERED by the ground? The ground is a grid with vertices — at the pond, the terrain dips, but the ground mesh between vertices is flat triangles. The water disc at z=0.25 — if the ground mesh at that point is ABOVE 0.25 (because of the dish shape), the water would be hidden. But we verified the ground near the pond center is at -0.6 to -1.2, below 0.25.

Wait — maybe the camera is seeing the pond area at such a shallow angle that the water disc (flat, thin) is edge-on and effectively invisible, and the ground behind/below shows. Let me check from the camera: what's the angle? The camera at (15.5,-15.5,5) looking at (-1.5,-1.5,2). The pond center (8,-7) — the view direction from camera to pond center is roughly (8-15.5, -7+15.5, 0.25-5) = (-7.5, 8.5, -4.75). The water normal is (0,0,1). The angle between view direction and water normal: cos = -4.75/sqrt(56+72+22.6)= -4.75/12.3 = -0.39 → angle ~113°. So we see the water at a fairly steep angle — it should be clearly visible.

Hmm. Let me check if maybe the water disc is being culled or the material renders transparent (fully transparent water with no refraction showing the ground below — and the ground below at the pond bottom is GroundMat (grass green), not this dirt color.

The uniform 0.42,0.37,0.30 — that's suspicious. Let me find which material has base color closest to this. PathMat mix of (0.42,0.34,0.24) and (0.27,0.21,0.14) → around 0.34,0.27,0.19. GroundMat: (0.30,0.42,0.19)/(0.13,0.22,0.09) → around 0.21,0.32,0.14 (greenish). The sampled 0.42,0.37,0.30 is lighter and neutral-warm.

Let me directly render with a debug pass: set the water to a bright red emission temporarily and see if it shows. Or use the viewport to check. Let me temporarily assign a bright red material to the pond and render.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "orig base color <bpy_float[4], NodeSocketColor.default_value>\nrendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_red.png 2562799\npond_center (0.67, 0.197) rgb [0.424 0.373 0.302]\npond_north (0.881, 0.278) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\npond_west (0.604, 0.303) rgb [0.62  0.561 0.478]\n"
}

[Assistant]
Even with bright red water, the pond center shows 0.42,0.37,0.30 — NOT red. The water disc is NOT being rendered at the pond center. But pond_west (5,-5) shows a lighter color (0.62,0.56,0.48) — slightly different, maybe the dock. The water disc is missing/covered.

Let me check if the pond water disc is actually inside the ground mesh. The ground mesh has 130x130 segments over size 34 — the grid spans -34..34. At the pond center the ground dips to -1.19. But wait — maybe the ground at the pond edges RISE above 0.25 and the water disc is fully buried? No — the center dips to -1.19, well below.

Hmm, let me check the water disc radius vs the pond depression. The depression function: dp < 6.4 → h -= 1.5*(1-t²)². At dp=6.4, h -= 0. At dp=4, (1-0.39)²=0.37 → h -= 0.56. At dp=0, h -= 1.5. The water disc radius is 7, which covers dp up to 7 > 6.4. So the water disc is bigger than the depression — its outer rim is buried in the ground (ground at dp 6.4-7 is above 0.25? terrain at dp=6.4: base 0.35ish minus 0 = 0.35ish → above 0.25, so the water disc rim from dp 6.4 to 7 is underground). That's fine — the visible water is the central part.

But the render shows NO water at the center. Let me check if the pond water object's mesh normals are flipped (inverted) — if normals point down, the camera sees the backface (culled in Cycles for transmission? no, Cycles renders double-sided by default... actually with transmission, backfaces matter).

Let me check the water disc normal direction.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "face normal <Vector (-0.0000, 0.0000, 1.0000)> z sign 1.0\nface count 1\nvert <Vector (0.0000, 7.0000, 0.2500)>\nvert <Vector (-0.6101, 6.9734, 0.2500)>\nvert <Vector (-1.2155, 6.8937, 0.2500)>\nvert <Vector (-1.8117, 6.7615, 0.2500)>\nvert <Vector (-2.3941, 6.5778, 0.2500)>\nbounds <bpy_float[8], Object.bound_box>\n"
}

[Assistant]
The water disc has only 1 face (the cap) with normal up — good. But the vertices are at (0,7,0.25) — that's radius 7 centered at origin (0,0). The pond center is at (8,-7), but the water disc is at (0,0)! The water disc was created centered at the origin, but the pond depression is at (8,-7). The water disc location is (0,0,0) — it doesn't cover the pond!

I need to move the water disc to (8,-7,0). Let me fix that.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "pond moved to <Vector (8.0000, -7.0000, 0.0000)>\nrendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_water.png 2530151\npond_center (0.67, 0.197) rgb [0.424 0.373 0.302]\npond_north (0.881, 0.278) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\npond_west (0.604, 0.303) rgb [0.62  0.561 0.478]\n"
}

[Assistant]
STILL the same colors! Moving the water disc to (8,-7,0) didn't change the render at all — the exact same pixel values. That means the pond water object is NOT being rendered at all, regardless of position. The pond center (0.67,0.2) still shows dirt.

The pond water disc might be hidden behind the GROUND MESH. Wait — the ground is a huge mesh, and the pond depression is cut into it. But the ground at the pond center is at -1.19, water at 0.25... unless the ground mesh has some faces ABOVE the water.

OR — the pond water disc is inside the ground and the ground is opaque, so from the camera angle, the ground's far side (the pond's far rim, which is ABOVE 0.25) occludes the water. The pond far edge is at (8,-13.4) with terrain 0.33 — above water. The near edge (8,-0.6) terrain 0.42 — also above water. So from the camera at (15.5,-15.5,5) — the camera is SOUTH of the pond. The pond's far side from the camera is the NORTH rim (y=-0.6, at 0.42 height) which is between the camera and... no wait, the camera is south, so the north rim is on the far side. The near rim (south, y=-13.4) is at 0.33 — higher than water 0.25. From a camera at height 5 looking down, the near rim (0.33) would block the view of the water immediately behind it.

But the pond center at (8,-7) is 6.4 units away from the near rim — the water surface should be visible beyond the rim. Unless the rim is tall enough to occlude. The rim at 0.33 vs water at 0.25 — only 8cm higher. From a camera 20 units away at height 5, an 8cm rise at 6.4 units would block the water surface behind it for a distance: the line of sight from camera (height 5) to the water at distance d... the geometry: camera at (15.5,-15.5,5), looking at water at (8,-7,0.25). The ray passes over the near rim (8,-13.4,0.33). The rim is only 0.08 above the water. From the camera's perspective, the ray to the pond center passes at height...

Camera to pond center: direction (-7.5, 8.5, -4.75). Parametrize: P(t) = camera + t*dir. The near rim point (8,-13.4): from camera, delta = (-7.5, 2.1, -4.67). The ray to pond center at the y of the rim... this is getting complicated. The point is, the rim might be occluding the water because the terrain rises above the water level all around.

Actually — the fundamental problem: the pond depression is only 1.5 deep, and the water fills it to 0.25. The terrain around the pond (at radius 6.4+) is at ~0.35-0.55, only slightly above the water. From a low camera angle, the water surface is barely visible. The water should still be visible at the center though.

Let me test more directly: render from straight above the pond to see if the water disc is there at all.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_top.png\ncenter rgb [0.122 0.122 0.078]\nmean [0.311 0.351 0.212]\n(0, 0) [0.122 0.122 0.078]\n(0, 100) [0.118 0.169 0.09 ]\n(100, 0) [0.094 0.129 0.071]\n(0, -100) [0.122 0.176 0.094]\n(-100, 0) [0.129 0.192 0.102]\n(0, 200) [0.129 0.188 0.102]\n(200, 0) [0.082 0.114 0.071]\n"
}

[Assistant]
From directly above, the pond center shows dark green (0.12,0.12,0.08) — that's the grass/dirt, NOT water. The water disc is definitely not rendering. Even straight down at (8,-7,20), the center pixel is dark ground.

The water disc must be UNDER the ground mesh. Let me check: the ground mesh is one big grid with the pond depression carved in. But the depression function only dips to -1.19 at the exact center, and the rim at 0.35ish. The water disc at z=0.25 with radius 7 — the ground mesh at the pond area should be BELOW 0.25 over most of the depression. Unless... the ground mesh wasn't updated with the terrain function correctly? We saw vertices near the pond at -0.6 to -1.2, so the ground dips properly.

Wait — maybe the issue is the ground mesh has its own faces covering the water: the ground is a grid of 130x130 quads. When the terrain dips, the quads form a dish. The water disc is a flat circle at 0.25. The ground quad at the pond center is at -1.19, but the quad's EDGES might be higher, and the camera from above sees... no, from straight above at (8,-7,20) looking down, the first surface hit at the center is the water at 0.25 (if it exists) or the ground at -1.19. It shows ground, so water is not there.

Let me check if the water object has some modifier or is scaled weirdly, or its mesh data is actually elsewhere. Let me print the water object's matrix world and world-space vertex positions.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "matrix <Matrix 4x4 (1.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,  8.0000)\n            (0.0000, 1.0000, 0.0000, -7.0000)\n            (0.0000, 0.0000, 1.0000,  0.0000)\n            (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,  1.0000)>\nlocation <Vector (8.0000, -7.0000, 0.0000)>\nworld x range 1.0 15.0\nworld y range -14.0 0.0\nworld z range 0.25 0.25\nn verts 72\nsample [[ 8.          0.          0.25      ]\n [ 7.38990974 -0.02663708  0.25      ]\n [ 6.78446293 -0.10634613  0.25      ]]\nscale <Vector (1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000)>\nclosest ground vert <Vector (7.8462, -6.8000, -1.1499)>\n"
}

[Assistant]
The water disc IS at world (8,-7,0.25) with radius 7, and the ground at (7.85,-6.8) is at -1.15 — 1.4 below the water. The water should be visible from above. But the render from above shows ground at the center.

Wait — the water disc z=0.25, but maybe the ground mesh at the pond area has its own surface ABOVE the water near the center? The closest ground vertex to (8,-7) is at (7.85,-6.8,-1.15). So the ground is below. The water disc is at 0.25.

Unless the water disc's faces are being culled. The disc has 1 face with normal (0,0,1). From above, that face faces the camera — should be visible. Unless the disc's face is an NGON with 72 vertices and there's an issue... let me check if the face is a proper ngon and if there are interior edges.

Actually — wait. Let me check the ground mesh: is it possible that the GROUND mesh is not one grid but many overlapping quads, and at the pond, the quads are raised? Let me check the ground mesh structure at the pond. Also, the "check_top" render center was (0.12,0.12,0.08) — very dark. The pond bottom at -1.19 with GroundMat would be greenish (0.2,0.3,0.1). (0.12,0.12,0.08) is darker and neutral — could be the PathMat or shadowed ground.

Let me check by disabling the ground temporarily and rendering.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered\ncenter rgb [0.392 0.451 0.439]\nmean [0.376 0.469 0.538]\n"
}

[Assistant]
With the ground hidden, the water IS visible from above (center 0.39,0.45,0.44 — teal-ish water). So the GROUND is covering the water! The ground mesh at the pond must have faces ABOVE the water surface, even though the vertices dip below.

The ground is a 130x130 grid of quads. The quads near the pond center are at -1.19, but quads further out rise to 0.35. When rendered from directly above, the ground quads at the pond's rim (0.35 > 0.25) should NOT cover the center... unless the ground quads in the pond area are warped such that they cross above the water.

The issue must be the terrain function creating a dish where the rim blocks the center from the camera. From directly above at z=20, looking straight down at (8,-7), the ray hits the water at 0.25 UNLESS the ground between the camera and that point is above 0.25 at the same (x,y). But straight down, the ray is vertical — the ground at (8,-7) is -1.19, water at 0.25 → water is hit first. UNLESS the ground mesh has a face whose projection overlaps (8,-7) at a height ABOVE 0.25 — i.e., the ground quads near the center might be distorted (folded) so that a quad from the rim overlaps the center region.

Hmm, wait — maybe the problem is the ground quads at the pond rim are tilted steeply, and their projected area covers the center. With a 130x130 grid over 68 units, each quad is ~0.52 units. The pond depression is 1.5 deep over 6.4 units radius — steep slopes. A steep quad at the rim could have its surface crossing the vertical line at (8,-7) above the water. But the rim is 6.4 units away from the center — the vertical line at the center is 6.4 units from the rim quads. A quad 6.4 units away can't cover the center.

Let me check: which faces of the ground mesh are above z=0.25 near the pond, and whether their XY projection covers the pond center. Actually, let me check the actual ground surface at the exact center with a ray cast.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "hit True loc <Vector (8.0000, -7.0000, -1.1789)> face 6710\nface normal <Vector (0.0622, -0.0880, 0.9942)> center z -1.1906541287899017\nface verts z [-1.199, -1.229, -1.185, -1.15]\nground max face z 0.596 center <Vector (-26.9385, -26.9385, 0.5585)>\nfaces above 0.25: 14716 of 16900\n"
}

[Assistant]
The ground raycast at (8,-7) hits the ground at -1.18 — but the water is at 0.25! The water should be hit FIRST from above. Unless the water disc object isn't being considered in the raycast (ray_cast only checks the ground mesh). But in the render, the water was only visible when the ground was hidden — meaning in the render, the GROUND is drawn over the water.

This is very strange. The ground at the pond center is at -1.18 (below water 0.25), yet in the render the ground appears instead of water.

OH WAIT. I bet the issue is the water disc is INSIDE the ground mesh — the ground mesh is one solid grid, and the water disc is a separate flat disc. In Cycles, when the water disc is at z=0.25 and the ground at z=-1.18 below it, the water should be hit first. Unless the ground mesh has a face that overlaps the water at a HIGHER z...

Actually, let me reconsider: maybe the render from directly above was actually showing the water but the water material was restored to transmission=1, making it show the ground below through transmission! When I hid the ground, the water showed (teal). When the ground is present, the water is TRANSPARENT (transmission 1.0, no absorption) and shows the ground below! The center pixel 0.12,0.12,0.08 from above is the ground at -1.18 seen through transparent water.

That's it — the water is fully transparent (transmission weight 1.0 with no color absorption), so it looks like the ground. The water material needs to be less transparent — add some absorption or lower transmission, or make it mostly reflective with a tint.

For a pond, a good approach: transmission weight ~0.8 with absorption color (deep teal), plus roughness. Or use a mix of glossy reflection and transmission. In Cycles, glass-like water with transmission 1.0 shows everything behind. For a nice pond look: base color teal, transmission weight 1.0, but add an Absorption node (Volume) or reduce transmission and add glossy.

Simplest fix: keep transmission but add a colored absorption volume (ShaderNodeVolumeAbsorption with a deep green-teal color, density ~0.5-1), so the water has visible depth and color. Or use transmission weight 0.7 + a slight glossy component.

Actually in Cycles, for thin water surfaces (a flat disc), there's no volume — absorption won't work without thickness. The water disc is infinitely thin, so transmission shows the bottom. Options:
1. Make the water a semi-transparent glossy: transmission 0.35, roughness 0.05 — gives a reflective sheen with some see-through.
2. Add a second water layer (a solid "water body" mesh filling the depression) with absorption.
3. Use the transmission with a mix: 60% glossy (reflection) + 40% transmission.

The best look for a pond seen from a distance: mostly reflective with subtle transparency. Let me use Mix Shader: 0.65 glossy (with teal tint, roughness 0.06) + 0.35 transmission (teal). And keep the noise bump. That will show sky reflections (warm sky → warm reflections) and some bottom.

Also — the terrain around the pond rim is above water level (0.35-0.55), so the visible water is only where terrain < 0.25. From the camera's angle, the pond should be clearly visible.

Let me fix the water material.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "water material rebuilt\n"
}

        Execute Python code in the connected Blender instance.

        The code runs in Blender's Python environment with full access to ``bpy``.
        To return data, assign a JSON-serialisable dict to a variable named ``result``.
        Deferred completion via ``check_is_finished`` is only supported by the
        interactive addon server, and is rejected in background mode.

Code

execute_blender_codeArguments

        Execute Python code in a background Blender process.

        Opens *blend_file* with ``blender --background`` and runs *code*.
        Assign a dict to ``result`` to return data.

Blend File

Code

execute_blender_code_for_cliArguments

Return a summary of the blend file: data-block counts, active workspace, and render engine.

get_blendfile_summary_datablocksArguments

Return a data-block summary by opening *blend_file* in background Blender.

Blend File

get_blendfile_summary_datablocks_for_cliArguments

        Report external file references that are missing from disk
        (images, libraries, fonts, sounds, movie clips, caches, sequences).

get_blendfile_summary_missing_filesArguments

Report missing file references by opening *blend_file* in background Blender.

Blend File

get_blendfile_summary_missing_files_for_cliArguments

Return a tree of directly and indirectly linked library files.

get_blendfile_summary_of_linked_librariesArguments

Return linked-library info by opening *blend_file* in background Blender.

Blend File

get_blendfile_summary_of_linked_libraries_for_cliArguments

Simple/fast access to the blend file's path, save status, age, and backups.

get_blendfile_summary_path_infoArguments

Return path info by opening *blend_file* in background Blender.

Blend File

get_blendfile_summary_path_info_for_cliArguments

Guess the primary use-cases of the current blend file (scored 0-100 with certainty).

get_blendfile_summary_usage_guessArguments

Guess use-cases by opening *blend_file* in background Blender.

Blend File

get_blendfile_summary_usage_guess_for_cliArguments

        Return a structured summary of the object identified by *name*.

        Includes type, transforms, parent, children, modifiers, constraints,
        materials, visibility, data-block name, and collections.

Name

get_object_detail_summaryArguments

        Return the scene's collection hierarchy and their objects.

        Each collection lists its objects (name, type, parent, data name,
        selection, visibility) and nested child collections.

get_objects_summaryArguments

        Return the Blender Python API docs for *identifier*, or list
        modules matching a trailing-``*`` discovery pattern.

        *identifier* should be a fully-qualified Python name (e.g.
        ``bpy.app`` or ``bpy.types.Scene.frame_current``).
        The trailing-``*`` forms are supported as discovery entry-points:

        - ``*`` enumerates the top-level modules (``bpy``, ``bmesh``,
          ``mathutils``, ``gpu``, ...).
        - ``X.*`` enumerates the direct-child identifiers under the
          *X* namespace (``bpy.*`` -> ``bpy.app``, ``bpy.context``, ...).

        Both return a ``namespace`` response even when ``X.rst`` would
        otherwise resolve to ``exact``; the ``.*`` form lets an agent
        force the child listing.

        The response always carries ``kind``, ``found``, and ``identifier``.
        The remaining keys depend on ``kind``:

        - ``"exact"`` (``found=True``): ``<identifier>.rst`` was read.
          Extra keys: ``content`` (RST text), ``examples``. When the
          file exceeds 32 KB, ``content`` is replaced with a dot-point
          summary of the file's top-level definitions (prefixed by a
          header noting the truncation) and ``examples`` is empty -
          re-query individual members for their rendered blocks.
        - ``"namespace"`` (``found=True``):
          no ``<identifier>.rst`` but ``<identifier>.<child>.rst`` siblings exist.
          Extra key: ``submodules`` (list of child identifiers).
        - ``"definition"`` (``found=True``):
          *identifier* is defined inside a parent RST
          (e.g. ``bpy.props.IntProperty`` lives in ``bpy.props.rst``).
          Extra keys: ``content`` (rendered block), ``examples``.
        - ``"partial"`` (``found=False``):
          the parent RST was located but the trailing component isn't defined in it.
          Extra keys:
          - ``parent`` the identifier whose RST was loaded.
          - ``available`` top-level definitions in that RST.
          - ``submodules`` sibling identifiers ``<parent>.<child>`` with their own RSTs,
            filtered to those whose last component contains every character of the missing tail.

          For a toctree landing page like ``bpy.types`` ``available`` is empty and ``submodules``
          is the near-miss list; for a self-contained module like ``bpy.props`` it's the reverse.
        - ``"suggestions"`` (``found=False``):
          no direct match, but *identifier* appears as a component of other files.
          Extra key: ``suggestions`` (list of full identifiers).
        - ``"missing"`` (``found=False``): nothing matched.

        ``examples`` (present on the ``exact`` and ``definition`` kinds)
        is a list of ``{path, content}`` entries referenced from this documentation.

Identifier

get_python_api_docsArguments

        Take a screenshot of a single Blender area and return it as a PNG image.

        *area_ui_type* matches the area's ``ui_type``.

        *size_limit_in_bytes* caps the image size in bytes.
        Zero (the default) uses the MCP message size limit.

Area Ui Type

Size Limit In Bytes

get_screenshot_of_area_as_imageArguments

Return a JSON description of the Blender window layout, areas, active object, and selection.

get_screenshot_of_window_as_jsonArguments

Switch the active workspace tab to *name*.

Name

jump_to_tab_by_nameArguments

        Switch to a workspace whose main area matches *space_type*.

        If *allow_edits* is True and no matching workspace exists, a new one
        is created by duplicating the current workspace.

Space Type

Allow Edits

jump_to_tab_by_space_typeArguments

        Move the 3D viewport to focus on an object by *name*.

        If *allow_edits* is True the object may be un-hidden and its
        collections enabled to make it visible.

Name

Allow Edits

        Move the 3D viewport to the object whose data block matches *name*.

        If *allow_edits* is True the object may be un-hidden and its
        collections enabled to make it visible.

Name

Allow Edits

Render a small, low-quality thumbnail to *output_path* (temporarily overrides settings).

Output Path

render_thumbnail_to_pathArguments

Render the current scene to *output_path* using current render settings.

Output Path

render_viewport_to_pathArguments

Full-text search over the bundled Blender Python API reference.

Returns a ranked list of hits. Each hit has:

- ``path``: file path relative to the bundled docs.
- ``text``: the matching paragraph plus ``context``
  paragraphs on either side.
- ``breadcrumb``: the section path containing the hit
  (``Section > Sub-section > ...``).
- ``index``: the hit's position in the result list.
- ``score``: a relevance score; higher is better.

The query is tokenised on whitespace and matched
case-insensitively. Every token must appear somewhere in
the paragraph body, the file path, or an enclosing section
title - in any order. Common English stop-words (``the``,
``a``, ``how``, ``to``, ...) are dropped, so natural
phrasings like ``"how to bake"`` work as expected. Regular
expressions are not supported.

Use ``context`` to pull more surrounding paragraphs into
each hit (symmetric, default 0). Use ``index`` with the
position of a previous hit (same query) to get that hit
alone with its text widened to its enclosing section.

Read-only; consults bundled RST files only.

Query

Max Results

Context

Index

search_api_docsArguments

Full-text search over the bundled Blender user manual.

Returns a ranked list of hits. Each hit has:

- ``path``: file path relative to the bundled docs.
- ``text``: the matching paragraph plus ``context``
  paragraphs on either side.
- ``breadcrumb``: the section path containing the hit
  (``Section > Sub-section > ...``).
- ``index``: the hit's position in the result list.
- ``score``: a relevance score; higher is better.

The query is tokenised on whitespace and matched
case-insensitively. Every token must appear somewhere in
the paragraph body, the file path, or an enclosing section
title - in any order. Common English stop-words (``the``,
``a``, ``how``, ``to``, ...) are dropped, so natural
phrasings like ``"how to bake"`` work as expected. Regular
expressions are not supported.

Use ``context`` to pull more surrounding paragraphs into
each hit (symmetric, default 0). Use ``index`` with the
position of a previous hit (same query) to get that hit
alone with its text widened to its enclosing section.

Read-only; consults bundled RST files only.

Query

Max Results

Context

Index

search_manual_docsArguments

[System]
You are participating in Blender-Bench, a public benchmark where AI models complete the same Blender task.

Your result will be compared head-to-head with another model. Anyone on the internet can vote based on two equally important published views: a 2D rendered presentation and an interactive 3D scene exported to GLB. Treat neither view as optional; make the result clear and compelling in both.

Complete the request as well as you can. The benchmark does not prescribe a workflow or visual style; use whichever Blender techniques you consider appropriate. Make the important requirements evident in the published result, save a complete scene, and present the work clearly in every requested output.

The 2D presentation is rendered by the benchmark from your saved scene using Cycles at 1536 x 1536, 64 samples, denoising enabled, and GPU acceleration when available with a CPU fallback. It is the native-fidelity view of the Blender scene, so you may use Blender's full feature set. Preview and validate your materials, lighting, color management, and camera composition in Cycles, and do not rely on EEVEE-only effects for the final appearance.

The interactive 3D view is a best-effort GLB export containing geometry, compatible materials, the contestant camera, and supported lights. Because glTF cannot represent every Blender feature, native effects such as particles, hair or curves, volumes, simulations, and some procedural geometry may appear only in the 2D render. The benchmark may also generate a separate preview GLB by baking supported procedural material inputs to textures; this does not convert unsupported geometry or guarantee exact parity with Blender. When practical, keep the core form and scene readable in the 3D view while using the 2D presentation to show native Blender features faithfully.

## Harness Instructions

You are operating Blender through the provided tools. Tool calls execute one at a time, in the order you issue them, against a single live Blender instance — each call sees the state left by the previous one, and issuing several calls in one message gains no parallelism. The scene starts empty. Build what the user's prompt asks for in the current scene. Work step by step and verify your own work.

You are building a real three-dimensional scene, and evaluators judge the whole scene and your final render side by side — an interactive 3D view and a benchmark-generated 360° camera orbit rendered in Cycles from your saved scene appear next to your presentation render, so forms that only read correctly from one angle will show. Build genuine 3D first, then present it well: before you finish, set up a camera and lighting to frame a single, well-composed presentation image of your result — a good scene that happens to have a well-placed camera and lights. The final benchmark capture overrides the scene render settings and renders in Cycles at 1536x1536, 64 samples, with denoising and GPU acceleration (CPU fallback). Preview and validate materials, lighting, color management, and composition in Cycles; do not rely on EEVEE-only effects. Use whatever Blender features best serve the result; a best-effort GLB export is also provided for interactive inspection, and features glTF cannot represent are not expected to survive it. When you are finished, reply with the single word DONE and no tool calls.

[User]
## Task

Complete the following Blender task:

<task>

A warm wooden cabin beside a pond, with a stone chimney, a small dock, and a few trees.

</task>

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "version": "5.1.0",
    "h_cabin": 0.55,
    "h_pond_center": -1.188,
    "shore_cabin_side": 0.194,
    "extent": [
      -34.0,
      34.0,
      -34.0,
      34.0
    ],
    "objects": 2
  },
  "stdout": "{'version': '5.1.0', 'h_cabin': 0.55, 'h_pond_center': -1.188, 'shore_cabin_side': 0.194, 'extent': (-34.0, 34.0, -34.0, 34.0), 'objects': 2}\n"
}

[Assistant] Blender 5.1, good. Terrain and pond water are in place. Now I'll build the log cabin: walls, floor, gable roof, stone chimney, door, windows, and front steps.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 54, in <module>\n  File \"<string>\", line 10, in link_obj\nRuntimeError: Error: Object 'CabinFloor' already in collection 'Scene Collection'\n\n"
}

[Assistant] The cube was already auto-linked. Let me fix the link helper and rerun the cabin build.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 52, in <module>\n  File \"<string>\", line 35, in add_log_axis\n  File \"<string>\", line 20, in make_log\nTypeError: create_cone: keyword \"diameter1\" is invalid for this operator\n"
}

[Assistant] The bmesh cone API changed in Blender 5.x. Let me check the current signature.

[Tool]
{
  "hits": [],
  "truncated": false
}

[Tool]
{
  "hits": [
    {
      "path": "api/bmesh.ops.rst",
      "text": ".. function:: create_cone(bm, cap_ends=False, cap_tris=False, segments=0, radius1=0, radius2=0, depth=0, matrix=mathutils.Matrix.Identity(4), calc_uvs=False)\n\nCreate Cone.\n\nCreates a cone with variable radius at both ends\n\n:param bm: The bmesh to operate on.\n:type bm: bmesh.types.BMesh\n:param cap_ends: Whether or not to fill in the ends with faces.\n:type cap_ends: bool\n:param cap_tris: Fill ends with triangles instead of ngons.\n:type cap_tris: bool\n:param segments: Number of vertices in the base circle.\n:type segments: int\n:param radius1: Radius of one end.\n:type radius1: float\n:param radius2: Radius of the opposite end.\n:type radius2: float\n:param depth: Distance between ends.\n:type depth: float\n:param matrix: Matrix to multiply the new geometry with.\n:type matrix: mathutils.Matrix\n:param calc_uvs: Calculate default UVs.\n:type calc_uvs: bool\n:return: verts:\nOutput verts.\n\ntype list[bmesh.types.BMVert]\n:rtype: dict[str, Any]",
      "breadcrumb": "BMesh Operators (bmesh.ops) > Operator Example",
      "score": 8,
      "index": 0
    }
  ],
  "truncated": false
}

[Assistant] The API uses `radius1`/`radius2`. Fixing and rerunning the cabin build.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin built, objects: 68\n"
}

[Assistant] Cabin structure is built (68 objects). Now I'll create the materials: log wood with grain, roof planks, stone, glass, water, and grass ground.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 29, in <module>\n  File \"<string>\", line 21, in add_tex\nAttributeError: 'ShaderNodeTexNoise' object has no attribute 'scale'\n"
}

[Assistant] Node parameters are dynamic inputs in 5.1. I'll fix the texture helper and redo materials cleanly.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 46, in <module>\n  File \"<string>\", line 20, in add_tex\nRuntimeError: Error: Node type ShaderNodeTexMusgrave undefined\n\n"
}

[Assistant] Musgrave node type is undefined in 5.1. Let me check available texture node types.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "['DistortedNoiseTexture', 'MusgraveTexture', 'NoiseTexture', 'ShaderNodeTexNoise', 'ShaderNodeTexVoronoi', 'ShaderNodeTexWave', 'ShaderNodeTexWhiteNoise', 'TextureNodeTexDistNoise', 'TextureNodeTexMusgrave', 'TextureNodeTexNoise', 'TextureNodeTexVoronoi', 'VoronoiTexture']\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 13, in <module>\nRuntimeError: Error: Node type MusgraveTexture undefined\n\n",
  "stdout": "MusgraveTexture props: ['rna_type', 'name', 'name_full', 'id_type', 'session_uid', 'is_evaluated', 'original', 'users', 'use_fake_user', 'use_extra_user', 'is_embedded_data', 'is_linked_packed', 'is_missing', 'is_runtime_data', 'is_editable', 'tag', 'is_library_indirect', 'library', 'library_weak_reference', 'asset_data', 'override_library', 'preview', 'type', 'use_clamp', 'use_color_ramp', 'color_ramp', 'intensity', 'contrast', 'saturation', 'factor_red', 'factor_green', 'factor_blue', 'use_preview_alpha', 'use_nodes', 'node_tree', 'animation_data', 'musgrave_type', 'dimension_max', 'lacunarity', 'octaves', 'offset', 'gain', 'noise_intensity', 'noise_scale', 'noise_basis', 'nabla']\nShaderNodeTexNoise props: ['rna_type', 'type', 'location', 'location_absolute', 'width', 'height', 'dimensions', 'name', 'label', 'inputs', 'outputs', 'internal_links', 'parent', 'warning_propagation', 'use_custom_color', 'color', 'color_tag', 'select', 'show_options', 'show_preview', 'hide', 'mute', 'show_texture', 'bl_idname', 'bl_label', 'bl_description', 'bl_icon', 'bl_static_type', 'bl_width_default', 'bl_width_min', 'bl_width_max', 'bl_height_default', 'bl_height_min', 'bl_height_max', 'texture_mapping', 'color_mapping', 'noise_dimensions', 'noise_type', 'normalize']\nVoronoi props: ['rna_type', 'type', 'location', 'location_absolute', 'width', 'height', 'dimensions', 'name', 'label', 'inputs', 'outputs', 'internal_links', 'parent', 'warning_propagation', 'use_custom_color', 'color', 'color_tag', 'select', 'show_options', 'show_preview', 'hide', 'mute', 'show_texture', 'bl_idname', 'bl_label', 'bl_description', 'bl_icon', 'bl_static_type', 'bl_width_default', 'bl_width_min', 'bl_width_max', 'bl_height_default', 'bl_height_min', 'bl_height_max', 'texture_mapping', 'color_mapping', 'voronoi_dimensions', 'distance', 'feature', 'normalize']\n"
}

[Assistant] In Blender 5.1, `ShaderNodeTexMusgrave` was replaced by new noise-based nodes. I'll use Noise + Voronoi textures instead and set dynamic inputs by name.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 125, in <module>\nKeyError: 'bpy_prop_collection[key]: key \"Clearcoat Weight\" not found'\n"
}

[Tool]
Error executing tool execute_blender_code: 1 validation error for execute_blender_codeArguments
code
  Field required [type=missing, input_value={'command': 'python -c "\...y\nprint(\'dummy\')\n"'}, input_type=dict]
    For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.13/v/missing

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "[('Base Color', 'Base Color'), ('Metallic', 'Metallic'), ('Roughness', 'Roughness'), ('IOR', 'IOR'), ('Alpha', 'Alpha'), ('Normal', 'Normal'), ('Weight', 'Weight'), ('Diffuse Roughness', 'Diffuse Roughness'), ('Subsurface Weight', 'Subsurface Weight'), ('Subsurface Radius', 'Subsurface Radius'), ('Subsurface Scale', 'Subsurface Scale'), ('Subsurface IOR', 'Subsurface IOR'), ('Subsurface Anisotropy', 'Subsurface Anisotropy'), ('Specular IOR Level', 'Specular IOR Level'), ('Specular Tint', 'Specular Tint'), ('Anisotropic', 'Anisotropic'), ('Anisotropic Rotation', 'Anisotropic Rotation'), ('Tangent', 'Tangent'), ('Transmission Weight', 'Transmission Weight'), ('Coat Weight', 'Coat Weight'), ('Coat Roughness', 'Coat Roughness'), ('Coat IOR', 'Coat IOR'), ('Coat Tint', 'Coat Tint'), ('Coat Normal', 'Coat Normal'), ('Sheen Weight', 'Sheen Weight'), ('Sheen Roughness', 'Sheen Roughness'), ('Sheen Tint', 'Sheen Tint'), ('Emission Color', 'Emission Color'), ('Emission Strength', 'Emission Strength'), ('Thin Film Thickness', 'Thin Film Thickness'), ('Thin Film IOR', 'Thin Film IOR')]\n"
}

[Assistant] Clearcoat was renamed to Coat in 5.1. Rerunning materials with the correct input names.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "materials done: 11\n"
}

[Assistant] All 11 materials are in. Now the dock, trees, and a dirt path.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "dock+trees+path done, objects: 256\n"
}

[Assistant] Now the lighting: warm sun, sky tint, and a fireplace glow through the windows.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "lights done\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "camera at <Vector (11.0000, 7.5000, 1.7500)> rot <Euler (x=1.5359, y=0.0000, z=0.8029), order='XYZ'>\nscene camera: Camera\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "status": "ok",
    "filepath": "<home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\blender_a64992\\blender_mcp\\thumb1.png"
  }
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "status": "ok",
    "window_width": 3840,
    "window_height": 2054,
    "screen_name": "Layout",
    "workspace": "Layout",
    "scene": "Scene",
    "areas": [
      {
        "type": "PROPERTIES",
        "x": 3158,
        "y": 35,
        "width": 679,
        "height": 1611,
        "space": {
          "type": "PROPERTIES",
          "context": "OBJECT"
        },
        "regions": [
          {
            "type": "HEADER",
            "x": 3158,
            "y": 1608,
            "width": 679,
            "height": 38
          },
          {
            "type": "NAVIGATION_BAR",
            "x": 3158,
            "y": 35,
            "width": 43,
            "height": 1573
          },
          {
            "type": "WINDOW",
            "x": 3201,
            "y": 35,
            "width": 636,
            "height": 1573
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "OUTLINER",
        "x": 3158,
        "y": 1651,
        "width": 679,
        "height": 364,
        "space": {
          "type": "OUTLINER",
          "display_mode": "VIEW_LAYER"
        },
        "regions": [
          {
            "type": "HEADER",
            "x": 3158,
            "y": 1977,
            "width": 679,
            "height": 38
          },
          {
            "type": "WINDOW",
            "x": 3158,
            "y": 1651,
            "width": 679,
            "height": 326
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "DOPESHEET_EDITOR",
        "x": 3,
        "y": 35,
        "width": 3150,
        "height": 143,
        "space": {
          "type": "DOPESHEET_EDITOR"
        },
        "regions": [
          {
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[Assistant] Let me take a viewport screenshot to inspect the scene.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "exists True size 2289161\nrendered to <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_render.png True 2289161\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "status": "ok",
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    "workspace": "Layout",
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[Assistant] The screenshot tool returns no image data, so I'll verify visually via a rendered PNG and inspect it numerically. Let me first analyze the rendered image with Python to check composition and brightness.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "exists True size 2289161\ndims 1536 1536 mean RGB [0.416 0.445 0.28 ]\nmin/max 0.007843137718737125 0.6823529601097107\ncenter [0.125 0.204 0.055]\ntop band mean [0.535 0.555 0.364]\nbottom band mean [0.412 0.406 0.29 ]\n"
}

[Assistant] The render is fairly bright overall. To see the actual image, let me save a small version and check with the screenshot API, or better — verify the scene structure and check for common issues (e.g., geometry clipping, materials). First, let me confirm which objects are visible and check the cabin alignment.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "counts {'MESH': 256, 'LIGHT': 3, 'CAMERA': 1}\nCabinFloor loc <Vector (-4.0000, 1.0000, 0.4700)> dim <Vector (4.2000, 3.2000, 0.1750)>\nRoof loc <Vector (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000)> dim <Vector (10.2000, 7.8000, 2.5600)>\nChimney loc <Vector (-4.5000, -0.6000, 3.6000)> dim <Vector (0.5500, 0.6000, 3.2000)>\nPondWater loc <Vector (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000)> dim <Vector (14.0000, 14.0000, 0.0000)>\nDoor loc <Vector (0.0800, 2.2000, 1.6700)> dim <Vector (0.0600, 0.8500, 1.2500)>\nAwning loc <Vector (0.6000, 2.2000, 3.0500)> dim <Vector (0.5000, 1.6600, 0.0600)>\npond dims <Vector (14.0000, 14.0000, 0.0000)>\ncam dir <Vector (-0.7189, 0.6942, -0.0349)>\ncam loc <Vector (11.0000, 7.5000, 1.7500)>\n"
}

[Assistant] The camera is looking roughly at the cabin area. Let me actually view the rendered output by copying it into the Blender image editor and reading it via the screenshot, or better — I'll analyze the render more carefully for problems. The render shows greenish center (0.125, 0.204, 0.055 — likely foliage/grass), so the cabin may be visible but let me check the actual frame by examining a downscaled ASCII visualization of the luminance.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n================================================\n  ...:==========================================\n.......:::======================================\n::::::::=====================::::::..  ....=====\n:::::::=====================:::::::::::::.....:=\n-==========================-....:::::...:::::===\n=================::::    .:=====-..........-====\n........::...::-====       ..:==..............==\n......... =========....     ===................=\n...........======.........  .......::::::::.....\n....::::....====...............:::::::::::::::..\n...:::::::...--.::::::::......::::::::::::::::::\n..---::::::..-::::::::::::...:::::::::::::::::::\n..------::::.-:::::::::::::.::::::::::::::::::::\n.--------:::.-:--------:::::::::---:::::::::::::\n----------::.:----------::.::::----------:::--::\n----------::.:------------::::-----------------:\n.-==-------:--------------::--------------------\n--------------------------::--------------------\n----=---------------------:---------------------\n-------------------=------:---------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n-------------------------------------==---------\n-----------------------------------====---------\n---------------------------------==--===--------\n----------------------------------=-------------\n------------------------------------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n---------------------------------------=--------\n------------------------------------------------\n------------------------------------------------\n"
}

[Assistant] The ASCII map is hard to interpret. Let me open the render in an Image Editor and screenshot that area to actually see it.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "switched area\nimage CheckRender <bpy_int[2], Image.size>\n"
}

[Assistant] The screenshot tool returns no data (likely not supported in this environment). I'll rely on numeric analysis plus targeted render-region checks. Let me check where the cabin lands in the frame and whether the pond/cabin are framed well.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (-2.062, 0.009)\ncabin_ridge -> (-2.116, 0.654)\ncabin_left -> (-1.677, 0.053)\ncabin_right -> (-3.117, 0.093)\npond_center -> None\npond_far -> None\npond_near -> None\ndock_start -> None\ndock_end -> None\ndoor -> (-2.319, -0.0)\nchimney -> (-2.631, 0.546)\ntree_back_l -> (-0.991, 0.18)\ntree_back_r -> (-0.819, 0.35)\n"
}

[Assistant] The cabin is at NDC x≈-2 to -3, which is far off-screen to the left (visible range -1..1). My projection math might be off due to focal length handling, but the camera clearly isn't framing the scene well — pond points returned None (behind camera or outside). Let me reposition the camera to properly frame the cabin, pond, and dock from a good angle.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cam loc <Vector (13.5000, 6.5000, 2.6000)> rot <Euler (x=1.5708, y=-0.0000, z=1.9720), order='XYZ'>\ncabin_front_center -> (-2.062, 0.009)\ncabin_ridge -> (-2.116, 0.654)\ncabin_left -> (-1.677, 0.053)\ncabin_right -> (-3.117, 0.093)\npond_center -> None\npond_far -> None\npond_near -> None\ndock_start -> None\ndock_end -> None\ndoor -> (-2.319, -0.0)\nchimney -> (-2.631, 0.546)\ntree_back_l -> (-0.991, 0.18)\ntree_back_r -> (-0.819, 0.35)\n"
}

[Assistant] My manual projection is suspect. Let me use Blender's own `world_to_camera_view` to check framing.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.613, 0.436)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.613, 0.73)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.529, 0.47)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.759, 0.448)\npond_center -> (-0.66, 0.207)\npond_far -> (-0.97, 0.264)\npond_near -> (-0.153, 0.113)\ndock_start -> (-0.148, 0.325)\ndock_end -> (-1.618, 0.253)\ndoor -> (0.609, 0.417)\nchimney -> (0.53, 0.645)\ntree_back_l -> (0.952, 0.579)\ntree_back_r -> (1.14, 0.67)\n"
}

[Assistant] The cabin is on the right side (x≈0.6), pond on the left, but the dock extends off-screen left, and the cabin is too far right. Let me adjust the camera to get a balanced composition: cabin centered-ish, pond + dock visible in foreground, trees framing.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.621, 0.432)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.621, 0.746)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.531, 0.468)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.777, 0.444)\npond_center -> (-0.743, 0.186)\npond_far -> (-1.075, 0.247)\npond_near -> (-0.2, 0.085)\ndock_start -> (-0.194, 0.312)\ndock_end -> (-1.769, 0.235)\ndoor -> (0.616, 0.411)\nchimney -> (0.532, 0.655)\ntree_back_l -> (0.984, 0.585)\ntree_back_r -> (1.186, 0.682)\n"
}

[Assistant] Still off. The dock is off-screen left and the cabin pushed right. I need to move the camera further away/back so both fit. Let me try a wider, more frontal composition.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.631, 0.415)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.63, 0.807)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.577, 0.454)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.734, 0.442)\npond_center -> (-1.056, 0.174)\npond_far -> (-1.207, 0.247)\npond_near -> (-0.756, 0.028)\ndock_start -> (-0.422, 0.295)\ndock_end -> (-1.948, 0.261)\ndoor -> (0.543, 0.398)\nchimney -> (0.536, 0.688)\ntree_back_l -> (1.137, 0.609)\ntree_back_r -> (1.181, 0.815)\n---\ncabin_front_center -> (0.618, 0.424)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.617, 0.776)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.569, 0.458)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.71, 0.448)\npond_center -> (-0.901, 0.206)\npond_far -> (-1.036, 0.272)\npond_near -> (-0.631, 0.075)\ndock_start -> (-0.33, 0.316)\ndock_end -> (-1.703, 0.285)\ndoor -> (0.539, 0.409)\nchimney -> (0.532, 0.669)\ntree_back_l -> (1.073, 0.598)\ntree_back_r -> (1.113, 0.784)\n"
}

[Assistant]
The issue is clear now: the dock runs off to the left far out of frame, and the pond center is far left too. The cabin occupies only the right portion. I need to rethink the composition: move the camera to the east, looking west, so the cabin is left/center and the pond extends right, or better, reposition the dock so it points toward the camera.

The dock currently extends from shore (4.6,-4.9) toward (11.6,-12) — away from the camera position. The camera at (10-16, 8-11) is north of the dock. The dock should point toward the viewer. Let me rotate the dock to point southeast toward the camera-side shore, and place the camera south of the pond looking north at the cabin.

Let me reconsider the whole layout: cabin at (-4,1), pond centered (8,-7). The pond's near shore to the camera should be its south side (y=-13). If the camera is at (6, -16) looking north, the cabin would be behind the pond. Better: camera east of pond at (15, -2) looking west-northwest toward cabin (-4,1). The dock from shore toward the pond center — from (4.6,-4.9) toward (8,-7) — that's toward the pond center, which is toward the west from the camera. That would point mostly away.

Actually, for a classic composition: cabin on the left/center, pond in front stretching to the right, dock reaching from the shore toward the viewer/camera. Camera positioned south-east of the pond, e.g., (10,-10), looking northwest at cabin (-4,1). Then the pond is in the middle foreground, the dock from (4.6,-4.9) extending southwest toward the camera would be visible.

The dock direction (0.70,-0.71) normalized points from shore (4.6,-4.9) to (11.6,-12.0). That's pointing southeast. A camera at (10,-10) is roughly southeast of the shore — so the dock would point somewhat toward the camera.

Let me set the camera at (11, -9, 2.5), target (-3, 1, 2.5). Check the projection.The dock is pointing away from my camera. Let me place the camera south of the pond looking northwest, so the dock points toward the viewer and the pond fills the foreground.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.634, 0.471)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.636, 0.737)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.592, 0.516)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.7, 0.457)\npond_center -> (-0.328, 0.298)\npond_far -> (-0.529, 0.353)\npond_near -> (-0.024, 0.215)\ndock_start -> (-0.004, 0.376)\ndock_end -> (-0.83, 0.345)\ndoor -> (0.583, 0.438)\nchimney -> (0.569, 0.664)\ntree_back_l -> (0.983, 0.609)\ntree_back_r -> (0.925, 0.6)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Better — pond is now left-center, dock visible from (0, 0.38) to (-0.83, 0.35). But the cabin is still far right (x≈0.63) and the dock end at x=-0.83 is near the left edge. I want the cabin more central and the dock clearly in the foreground. The cabin is at x≈0.63, pond center at -0.33 — the whole scene spans -0.85 to 0.98.

Let me pull the camera back and shift the aim left/down so the cabin sits around x=0.55 and the dock sweeps from center toward the lower-left, with pond filling the bottom.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.499, 0.451)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.499, 0.756)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.234, 0.485)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.834, 0.467)\npond_center -> (0.047, -0.34)\npond_far -> (-5.71, -2.167)\npond_near -> (1.181, 0.02)\ndock_start -> (0.307, 0.188)\ndock_end -> (5.196, 3.22)\ndoor -> (0.726, 0.431)\nchimney -> (0.388, 0.677)\ntree_back_l -> (0.606, 0.596)\ntree_back_r -> (1.192, 0.619)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Now the cabin spans x 0.23–0.83 (center ~0.53), pond center at (0.05,-0.34), dock start (0.31,0.19) but dock end goes off to (5.2,3.2) — that means the dock extends toward the upper right, away from the camera (because from this angle, the dock direction points away). The pond near shore at y=0.02 is at the bottom.

Wait — the dock end at (5.2, 3.2) is far off-screen. That means the dock points away from the camera toward the pond's far side. That's wrong for the composition. The dock should point from the shore INTO the pond — which is what it does geometrically — but from the camera's viewpoint, the pond's far side is behind/right.

Actually looking at the layout: the pond is at (8,-7), the dock goes from (4.6,-4.9) toward (11.6,-12). The camera is at (14.5,-6). The dock is to the left of the camera. From the camera, the dock's far end (11.6,-12) is further left AND further away (more negative y, farther from camera at y=-6). So it should project toward the left... but it shows x=5.2? That suggests my projection is inconsistent — the dock end is beyond the pond far edge.

Let me stop guessing and reconsider: The real problem is the dock is oriented the wrong way for a camera on the south side. I should rotate the dock to point from the shore toward the pond's near side (south), i.e., from (4.6,-4.9) toward (4.6,-10) — toward the camera at (14.5,-6) roughly. Then from the camera, the dock would lead from the shore toward the viewer, appearing in the foreground.

Let me rotate the dock direction to point toward the camera-side (south-southwest). The pond edge nearest the camera is around (8,-13). The shore near the dock start is (4.6,-4.9). A dock from (4.6,-4.9) toward (5.5,-9) would point south, into the pond, toward the camera.

Actually the dock should extend from the shore INTO the pond. The pond center is at (8,-7). The dock at (4.6,-4.9) extending toward (8,-7) would reach the pond center — but that's mostly east. From camera (14.5,-6) looking at cabin (-3.5,1), the pond center (8,-7) projects near center-bottom. A dock pointing from (4.6,-4.9) toward (8,-7) — its far end would be near the pond center, which is in the lower middle of the frame. That would look great: the dock juts into the pond toward the camera.

The current dock goes toward (11.6,-12) which is beyond the pond's far south-west edge — wrong, it goes past the pond. I should rebuild the dock to point from the shore toward the pond center.

Let me rebuild the dock with direction from (4.6,-4.9) toward pond center (8,-7), length ~7, so it ends around (7,-6.4).

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "dock rebuilt, objects: 252\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<repo>\\.runner\\blender-mcp-v1.0.0\\addon\\mcp_to_blender_server.py\", line 230, in _execute_code\n    exec(code, namespace)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"<string>\", line 26, in <module>\nNameError: name 'dirx' is not defined. Did you mean: 'dir'?\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_front_center -> (0.489, 0.453)\ncabin_ridge -> (0.489, 0.739)\ncabin_left_corner -> (0.259, 0.489)\ncabin_right_corner -> (0.789, 0.462)\npond_center -> (-0.18, -0.17)\npond_near -> (0.898, 0.04)\ndock_start -> (0.18, 0.213)\ndock_end -> (-1.477, -0.888)\ndoor -> (0.676, 0.428)\nchimney -> (0.384, 0.664)\ndock_end world <Vector (10.9810, -8.8412)>\n"
}

[Assistant]
Now the dock end at (-1.48,-0.89) is off-screen bottom-left, meaning the dock still extends too far left. The dock start is at (0.18,0.21) but it runs past the pond's near edge. The dock is 7.5 long pointing toward pond center; the pond center is at (0.18,-0.17)... wait no, the pond center projects to (-0.18,-0.17), and the dock end (-1.48,-0.89) is beyond the pond center — because the dock extends past the pond center toward the far edge.

The dock from (4.6,-4.9) toward (8,-7) at length 7.5 ends at (10.98,-8.84) — that's beyond the pond center (8,-7), near the pond's far edge (13,-12). The dock is too long and crosses the whole pond. I should shorten it to ~4.5 so it ends around (7.2,-6.3), just inside the pond near the shore, giving a nice jutting dock.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "dock v2, objects: 240\ndock_start (0.18, 0.213)\ndock_end (-0.288, -0.098)\ncabin_ridge (0.489, 0.739)\ncabin_center (0.489, 0.453)\npond_center (-0.18, -0.17)\n"
}

[Assistant] Now the dock spans from (0.18, 0.21) to (-0.29, -0.10) — nicely in the lower-center-left of the frame, leading into the pond. Cabin at (0.49, 0.45) with ridge at 0.74. Let me now render a test and analyze the composition.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_render2.png 2646707\n"
}

[Assistant] The ASCII map is rotated (64 rows shown as columns), but I can see the cabin area (warm 'W' block) and a large bright pond region. Let me verify by sampling pixels at the projected locations of key objects.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_center ndc (0.489, 0.453) px (750, 840) rgb [0.537 0.455 0.322]\ncabin_ridge ndc (0.489, 0.739) px (750, 401) rgb [0.89  0.82  0.694]\ncabin_left ndc (0.259, 0.489) px (398, 785) rgb [0.784 0.737 0.659]\ncabin_right ndc (0.789, 0.462) px (1211, 826) rgb [0.404 0.412 0.255]\npond_center off-screen (-0.18, -0.17)\ndock_start ndc (0.18, 0.238) px (275, 1170) rgb [0.424 0.369 0.302]\ndock_mid off-screen (-0.003, 0.096)\npond_far_edge off-screen (-2.648, -0.651)\npond_near_edge ndc (0.898, 0.04) px (1379, 1474) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\ntree_back_l ndc (0.625, 0.595) px (959, 622) rgb [0.714 0.671 0.573]\ntree_back_r off-screen (1.14, 0.607)\n"
}

[Assistant] The cabin is visible (warm wood tones at center), but the pond center and dock mid are off-screen — the pond is mostly below the frame. The current camera is too low/close, and the dock is at the bottom edge. I need a higher, more pulled-back camera to capture the pond fully with the dock visible. Let me adjust.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.49, 0.717)\ncabin_center -> (0.49, 0.457)\ncabin_left -> (0.281, 0.49)\ncabin_right -> (0.762, 0.466)\npond_center -> (-0.118, -0.109)\npond_near -> (0.862, 0.082)\npond_far -> (-2.362, -0.546)\ndock_start -> (0.209, 0.262)\ndock_end -> (0.043, 0.133)\ntree_back_l -> (0.613, 0.586)\ntree_back_r -> (1.082, 0.597)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Still the pond center is below frame (y<0). The pond's near shore is at (0.86, 0.08) — right at the bottom edge. The problem: the pond sits mostly below the camera's view because the camera is positioned too far north (y=-4) and the pond center is at (8,-7), far south. The camera at y=-4 looking toward (-2,-1) means the pond is behind/below.

Let me reposition the camera to be south-east of the pond, looking north-west. That way the pond is in front (between camera and cabin).

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.602, 0.784)\ncabin_center -> (0.598, 0.502)\ncabin_left -> (0.398, 0.556)\ncabin_right -> (0.877, 0.484)\npond_center -> (-0.144, -0.104)\npond_near -> (0.773, -0.01)\npond_far -> (-1.321, -0.223)\ndock_start -> (0.207, 0.242)\ndock_end -> (-0.0, 0.092)\ntree_back_l -> (0.774, 0.665)\ntree_back_r -> (1.263, 0.614)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Still the pond center is below the frame (y=-0.104). The issue: the pond is at y=-7 but the cabin at y=1 is BEHIND the pond from this camera. The pond is between the camera and cabin, so it should fill the lower part of the frame... but the numbers show pond_center at y=-0.104 (below frame bottom) — meaning the pond is still below the view. That's because the camera is aiming too high (at y=1 cabin), and the pond at y=-7 is far below the aim point.

The geometry: camera at (9,-16.5), aiming at (-3.5,1). The line of sight passes over the pond. The pond center (8,-7) is laterally offset from the aim line. It should appear lower in frame but not off-screen.

The projection says pond_center y=-0.104 — just barely below the bottom edge. I need to tilt the camera down slightly or move it further away. Let me aim lower, at the pond/cabin midpoint, and move camera back.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.476, 0.733)\ncabin_center -> (0.477, 0.467)\ncabin_left -> (0.19, 0.489)\ncabin_right -> (0.761, 0.491)\npond_center -> (1.183, 0.022)\npond_near -> (1.263, 0.241)\npond_far -> (0.86, -0.86)\ndock_start -> (0.824, 0.286)\ndock_end -> (1.086, 0.202)\ntree_back_l -> (0.44, 0.605)\ntree_back_r -> (0.973, 0.605)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Now the cabin is well-framed (0.19-0.76), but the pond is off to the right (x=1.18) — because the pond is east of the cabin, and from this angle it's pushed right. The dock at (0.82-1.09) is also right-of-center. The cabin is left-center, pond right. That's actually a reasonable composition: cabin left, pond right. But the pond far edge is at y=-0.86 (below frame) and near edge at y=0.24. Only the top part of the pond is visible.

The fundamental issue: the pond is huge (radius 7) and located at (8,-7), while the cabin is at (-4,1). They're ~13 units apart. To get both in one frame from a reasonable distance, I need to be quite far back. Let me try a much more pulled-back camera with a moderate lens.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.482, 0.774)\ncabin_center -> (0.483, 0.541)\ncabin_left -> (0.24, 0.562)\ncabin_right -> (0.732, 0.559)\npond_center -> (0.976, 0.088)\npond_near -> (1.137, 0.311)\npond_far -> (0.34, -0.795)\ndock_start -> (0.718, 0.355)\ndock_end -> (0.915, 0.258)\ntree_back_l -> (0.471, 0.667)\ntree_back_r -> (0.934, 0.661)\n"
}

[Assistant] The pond center is still at x=0.98 — off the right edge. The pond is at (8,-7); the camera is at (20,-6) looking toward (-1,-2.5). The pond is far to the right of the view axis. I need to shift the camera aim so the pond comes into view — or move the camera more to the east so it looks at both from a wider angle. Actually the cleanest fix: move the camera to the SOUTH-EAST of the pond, looking NORTH-WEST, so the cabin is on the left and the pond fills the center-right. Let me try camera at (15, -14, 5) aiming at (-1, -1).

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.642, 0.729)\ncabin_center -> (0.637, 0.512)\ncabin_left -> (0.473, 0.553)\ncabin_right -> (0.853, 0.501)\npond_center -> (0.226, 0.153)\npond_near -> (0.787, 0.196)\npond_far -> (-0.437, 0.102)\ndock_start -> (0.395, 0.342)\ndock_end -> (0.298, 0.265)\ntree_back_l -> (0.77, 0.64)\ntree_back_r -> (1.134, 0.597)\n"
}

[Assistant] Now both are visible: pond spans x -0.44 to 0.79, cabin at 0.47-0.85, dock at 0.30-0.40. But the cabin is pushed to the right edge (0.85) and the pond left-of-center. The composition has the cabin on the right, pond center-left. That's workable, but the cabin is a bit cramped. Let me pull back more and shift the aim so both sit nicely: cabin center-right, pond lower-left.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_ridge -> (0.558, 0.719)\ncabin_center -> (0.557, 0.499)\ncabin_left -> (0.339, 0.523)\ncabin_right -> (0.802, 0.511)\npond_center -> (0.736, 0.123)\npond_near -> (1.098, 0.267)\npond_far -> (-0.12, -0.218)\ndock_start -> (0.637, 0.344)\ndock_end -> (0.73, 0.268)\ntree_back_l -> (0.585, 0.615)\ntree_back_r -> (1.028, 0.612)\n"
}

[Assistant]
Now the cabin is at 0.34-0.80 (center-right), pond center at (0.74, 0.12) — but the pond near edge is off-screen right (1.10). The pond is partially visible in the lower right. The dock at (0.64-0.73) is right of the cabin, in front of the pond. The composition: cabin upper-left-of-center, pond lower-right. That could work — the dock juts into the pond from the shore near the cabin.

Actually, this reads well: cabin on the left, its dock extending down-right into the pond that fills the lower right. Let me render and check.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_render3.png 2554534\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_center ndc (0.515, 0.503) rgb [0.447 0.373 0.251]\ncabin_ridge ndc (0.515, 0.705) rgb [0.553 0.573 0.349]\ncabin_left ndc (0.313, 0.526) rgb [0.314 0.388 0.192]\ncabin_right ndc (0.735, 0.514) rgb [0.678 0.635 0.525]\npond_center ndc (0.669, 0.175) rgb [0.424 0.369 0.302]\ndock_start ndc (0.589, 0.356) rgb [0.769 0.722 0.663]\ndock_end ndc (0.666, 0.291) rgb [0.678 0.627 0.561]\npond_near_edge ndc (0.974, 0.296) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\npond_far_edge off-screen (0.048, -0.074)\ntree_back_l ndc (0.539, 0.616) rgb [0.604 0.514 0.4  ]\ntree_back_r ndc (0.936, 0.606) rgb [0.38  0.471 0.267]\noverall mean [0.407 0.417 0.28 ]\n"
}

[Assistant]
The cabin is visible (wood tones), dock visible, but the "pond center" sample shows dirt color (0.42,0.37,0.30) — that's the ground/path color, not water. The pond might be barely visible or the water is below the ground. The pond far edge is off-screen. The pond is positioned mostly below the frame.

Also the "pond_center" at ndc (0.67, 0.18) shows PathMat color — that suggests the pond water surface is not being rendered there, possibly because the ground mesh covers it or the water is hidden.

Let me check the pond water position vs the ground. The pond center (8,-7) has terrain height -1.19, and the water disc is at z=0.25, radius 7. The ground mesh around the pond dips to -1.19 at center, and the water disc at z=0.25 covers it. But the sample at (8,-7,0) shows dirt — maybe the camera ray hits the water but the water is transparent and shows the ground beneath (transmission), or the water disc is small relative to the pond depression.

Let me verify the pond water is actually at the right place and visible.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "pond loc <Vector (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000)> dims <Vector (14.0000, 14.0000, 0.0000)> verts 72\n(8, -7) terrain -1.188\n(8, -0.6) terrain 0.423\n(8, -13.4) terrain 0.331\n(1.6, -7) terrain 0.416\n(14.4, -7) terrain 0.344\n(4.6, -4.9) terrain -0.281\n(7.2, -6.2) terrain -1.023\npond center surface ndc (0.67, 0.197)\n"
}

[Assistant]
The pond is centered at (8,-7) and its water disc is at z=0.25 with radius 7. The pond center surface projects to (0.67, 0.20) in-frame. But the sampled color there was dirt — meaning the water disc isn't visible. Possible causes: the water disc is below the ground (z=0.25 vs terrain -1.19 — no, water is ABOVE), or the water material is rendering transparent with the ground showing through (transmission weight 1 with no thickness → see-through), or the disc is being clipped.

The water at z=0.25 with the pond depression down to -1.19 means the water surface is 1.4 units ABOVE the pond bottom, but the GROUND at the pond edges (e.g., (8,-0.6) at 0.42) is ABOVE the water level 0.25. So the water disc only shows where the terrain is below 0.25 — but the disc itself is flat at 0.25 and radius 7. The pond rim (terrain at 0.3-0.4) is above water level, so water fills the depression up to 0.25. That should render fine — the water disc should be visible covering the depressed area.

Wait — the issue may be that the water disc is at z=0.25 but the terrain around it is higher, and the camera sees the water from above at an angle... Let me check if the water is actually being rendered. The sampled color 0.42,0.37,0.30 at pond center looks like the PathMat (dirt path) — the path boxes are at z = terrain+0.02. Maybe the path crosses the pond area. Let me check where the path is: path from door (-4,1.2) to shore — the path points go to x=4.2, y=-4.2 (end). That's not over the pond.

Let me look at what's actually at the pond center in the render. Let me render a region and inspect more carefully — or check the pond water in the viewport. First, check if the water disc has a material and is visible.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "materials: ['WaterMat']\nvisible True\nhide_viewport False hide_render False\nwater mat users 1\n node Material Output OUTPUT_MATERIAL\n node Principled BSDF BSDF_PRINCIPLED\n node Noise Texture TEX_NOISE\n node Bump BUMP\n link Principled BSDF -> Material Output\n link Noise Texture -> Bump\n link Bump -> Principled BSDF\n"
}

[Assistant]
The water material is fine. Let me check if the water disc might be underneath the ground mesh — the ground is a 130x130 grid (size 68) whose vertices follow the terrain. The water disc at z=0.25 covers only where terrain < 0.25. But the water disc is a flat circle at z=0.25 with radius 7 — at the pond edges the terrain rises above 0.25, so the disc's outer parts would be buried under the ground mesh. That's fine — the visible part is the depressed area.

But wait: the sample at pond center (8,-7) showed dirt. Let me check what the terrain does around (8,-7): -1.19, so the ground is 1.4 below water. The water should be clearly visible there. Unless the camera ray hits the water at a very grazing angle and the transmission makes it look like the bottom.

Let me render a small crop around the pond center and analyze the pixels there.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "pond center px (1028, 1232)\nregion mean [0.422 0.369 0.301]\nregion min/max [0.42  0.365 0.298] [0.424 0.373 0.306]\nfull-width band around pond row: mean [0.422 0.369 0.301]\n"
}

[Assistant]
The region around the pond center is uniform dirt color (0.42, 0.37, 0.30) — that's exactly the PathMat color. The dirt path boxes are covering the pond area! The path goes from the door toward the shore and ends around (4.2,-4.2), but the boxes are long and rotated — let me check if the path crosses over the pond.

The path curve: x from -4 to 4.2, y from 1.2 to -4.2. The pond starts at (1.6,-7)... The path end (4.2,-4.2) — the pond edge at that latitude is around (1.6,-7) to (14.4,-7). Actually the pond's north edge is at y≈-0.6, so the path ending at y=-4.2 is INSIDE the pond region! The path goes into the pond.

That's the problem — the dirt path runs into the water. I need to shorten the path so it ends at the shore, before the water starts. The pond north edge at x≈4.6 is at y≈-2.5 (edge of the circle at distance 6.4 from (8,-7)). Let me recompute: the pond is a circle radius 6.4 centered (8,-7). At x=4.6, the circle edge is at y = -7 ± sqrt(6.4² - (4.6-8)²) = -7 ± sqrt(40.96-11.56) = -7 ± 5.42. So the north edge at x=4.6 is y=-1.58. The path should end before y=-1.58 at x=4.6.

Let me fix the path to end at the shore.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "path fixed, objects: 239\npath end (2.8000000000000003, -2.2, 0.25191566171183954)\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_render4.png 2554512\n"
}

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "cabin_center ndc (0.515, 0.503) rgb [0.451 0.373 0.251]\ncabin_ridge ndc (0.515, 0.705) rgb [0.553 0.573 0.349]\npond_center_water ndc (0.67, 0.197) rgb [0.424 0.373 0.302]\npond_north_water ndc (0.881, 0.278) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\ndock_start ndc (0.589, 0.356) rgb [0.769 0.722 0.663]\ndock_end ndc (0.666, 0.291) rgb [0.678 0.627 0.561]\ntree_back_l ndc (0.539, 0.616) rgb [0.38  0.333 0.212]\ntree_back_r ndc (0.936, 0.606) rgb [0.38  0.471 0.267]\noverall mean [0.407 0.418 0.28 ]\n"
}

[Assistant]
The pond center STILL shows dirt color (0.42, 0.37, 0.30). The water isn't rendering. Let me investigate — maybe the water disc is being covered by the ground mesh. The ground is a 130x130 grid at size 34, and at the pond the terrain dips to -1.19, but the ground mesh at that point is still a continuous surface — the water disc at z=0.25 sits ABOVE the ground there... unless the ground has vertices that rise above.

Wait — I need to check if the water disc actually covers the camera-ray intersection. The camera ray to (8,-7) at z=0.25 — the ray hits whatever is first. The ground at (8,-7) is at z=-1.19, so the ray should hit the water disc at z=0.25 first. Unless the ground is rendered as a big flat plane at some higher z... Let me check the actual vertex heights of the ground mesh near the pond.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "verts near pond center: 64\nz range -1.229 -0.633\nsample z [-0.795 -0.988 -1.104 -1.096 -1.004]\npond verts z range 0.25 0.25\npond verts count 72\n"
}

[Assistant]
The ground at the pond is at -0.6 to -1.2, and the water disc is at z=0.25 — 1.5 units above. So the water SHOULD be visible. But the render shows dirt. The camera is at (15.5,-15.5,5.0) — the pond center projects to (0.67,0.2). Maybe the pond water disc is small and the camera angle is grazing, or the water is transparent and showing the pond bottom (which has the ground material — but the ground at the bottom would show grass, not this dirt color).

Wait — the dirt color 0.42,0.37,0.30 appears uniformly across the region. That's suspicious. Let me check if the dirt PATH boxes actually cover the whole pond. The path boxes are (0.8, len/2, 0.03) — they're thin. But maybe many boxes overlap the pond area.

Actually, let me check what material is at those pixels directly — render the object index or check what's in front. Better: let me look at the viewport from the camera to see what's actually there. Or render with a different approach — check depth.

[Assistant]
Now I can see the layout: green forest at top, cabin (warm W block) center-left, a large bright area (#/+) bottom — that's likely the pond/water but rendered bright. The dirt color I sampled may be the pond bottom showing through transparent water, or the pond is actually the bright area at bottom.

The map shows:
- Top: green (trees)
- Center-left: warm cabin (W)
- Bottom half: large bright (#/+) region — this is the pond/water area reflecting the bright sky

The pond water is there, but since it's fully transmissive at 0.04 roughness with transmission weight 1, it shows the bright sky reflection and the darker bottom. The sample at pond center (0.67,0.2 in NDC = row 1232, which is near the bottom) shows 0.42,0.37,0.30 — that's in the bright region but muted.

Let me render again and look at whether the water looks like water. The render needs a proper water look. Let me check the actual appearance with a crop of the bottom region, and also fix the camera to compose better. First, let me examine the water appearance in a crop.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "lower third mean [0.437 0.386 0.317]\nlower third std [0.069 0.07  0.073]\npond band mean [0.421 0.369 0.301]\npond band std [0.002 0.002 0.002]\n"
}

[Assistant]
The pond band has near-zero variance (0.002) — perfectly uniform color, which means it's NOT water (water would have some noise variation from the bump/reflection). A perfectly uniform 0.42,0.37,0.30 is the PathMat or GroundMat flat color. The pond water isn't rendering there.

Let me check: is the pond water disc maybe COVERED by the ground? The ground is a grid with vertices — at the pond, the terrain dips, but the ground mesh between vertices is flat triangles. The water disc at z=0.25 — if the ground mesh at that point is ABOVE 0.25 (because of the dish shape), the water would be hidden. But we verified the ground near the pond center is at -0.6 to -1.2, below 0.25.

Wait — maybe the camera is seeing the pond area at such a shallow angle that the water disc (flat, thin) is edge-on and effectively invisible, and the ground behind/below shows. Let me check from the camera: what's the angle? The camera at (15.5,-15.5,5) looking at (-1.5,-1.5,2). The pond center (8,-7) — the view direction from camera to pond center is roughly (8-15.5, -7+15.5, 0.25-5) = (-7.5, 8.5, -4.75). The water normal is (0,0,1). The angle between view direction and water normal: cos = -4.75/sqrt(56+72+22.6)= -4.75/12.3 = -0.39 → angle ~113°. So we see the water at a fairly steep angle — it should be clearly visible.

Hmm. Let me check if maybe the water disc is being culled or the material renders transparent (fully transparent water with no refraction showing the ground below — and the ground below at the pond bottom is GroundMat (grass green), not this dirt color.

The uniform 0.42,0.37,0.30 — that's suspicious. Let me find which material has base color closest to this. PathMat mix of (0.42,0.34,0.24) and (0.27,0.21,0.14) → around 0.34,0.27,0.19. GroundMat: (0.30,0.42,0.19)/(0.13,0.22,0.09) → around 0.21,0.32,0.14 (greenish). The sampled 0.42,0.37,0.30 is lighter and neutral-warm.

Let me directly render with a debug pass: set the water to a bright red emission temporarily and see if it shows. Or use the viewport to check. Let me temporarily assign a bright red material to the pond and render.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "orig base color <bpy_float[4], NodeSocketColor.default_value>\nrendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_red.png 2562799\npond_center (0.67, 0.197) rgb [0.424 0.373 0.302]\npond_north (0.881, 0.278) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\npond_west (0.604, 0.303) rgb [0.62  0.561 0.478]\n"
}

[Assistant]
Even with bright red water, the pond center shows 0.42,0.37,0.30 — NOT red. The water disc is NOT being rendered at the pond center. But pond_west (5,-5) shows a lighter color (0.62,0.56,0.48) — slightly different, maybe the dock. The water disc is missing/covered.

Let me check if the pond water disc is actually inside the ground mesh. The ground mesh has 130x130 segments over size 34 — the grid spans -34..34. At the pond center the ground dips to -1.19. But wait — maybe the ground at the pond edges RISE above 0.25 and the water disc is fully buried? No — the center dips to -1.19, well below.

Hmm, let me check the water disc radius vs the pond depression. The depression function: dp < 6.4 → h -= 1.5*(1-t²)². At dp=6.4, h -= 0. At dp=4, (1-0.39)²=0.37 → h -= 0.56. At dp=0, h -= 1.5. The water disc radius is 7, which covers dp up to 7 > 6.4. So the water disc is bigger than the depression — its outer rim is buried in the ground (ground at dp 6.4-7 is above 0.25? terrain at dp=6.4: base 0.35ish minus 0 = 0.35ish → above 0.25, so the water disc rim from dp 6.4 to 7 is underground). That's fine — the visible water is the central part.

But the render shows NO water at the center. Let me check if the pond water object's mesh normals are flipped (inverted) — if normals point down, the camera sees the backface (culled in Cycles for transmission? no, Cycles renders double-sided by default... actually with transmission, backfaces matter).

Let me check the water disc normal direction.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "face normal <Vector (-0.0000, 0.0000, 1.0000)> z sign 1.0\nface count 1\nvert <Vector (0.0000, 7.0000, 0.2500)>\nvert <Vector (-0.6101, 6.9734, 0.2500)>\nvert <Vector (-1.2155, 6.8937, 0.2500)>\nvert <Vector (-1.8117, 6.7615, 0.2500)>\nvert <Vector (-2.3941, 6.5778, 0.2500)>\nbounds <bpy_float[8], Object.bound_box>\n"
}

[Assistant]
The water disc has only 1 face (the cap) with normal up — good. But the vertices are at (0,7,0.25) — that's radius 7 centered at origin (0,0). The pond center is at (8,-7), but the water disc is at (0,0)! The water disc was created centered at the origin, but the pond depression is at (8,-7). The water disc location is (0,0,0) — it doesn't cover the pond!

I need to move the water disc to (8,-7,0). Let me fix that.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "pond moved to <Vector (8.0000, -7.0000, 0.0000)>\nrendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_water.png 2530151\npond_center (0.67, 0.197) rgb [0.424 0.373 0.302]\npond_north (0.881, 0.278) rgb [0.42  0.369 0.302]\npond_west (0.604, 0.303) rgb [0.62  0.561 0.478]\n"
}

[Assistant]
STILL the same colors! Moving the water disc to (8,-7,0) didn't change the render at all — the exact same pixel values. That means the pond water object is NOT being rendered at all, regardless of position. The pond center (0.67,0.2) still shows dirt.

The pond water disc might be hidden behind the GROUND MESH. Wait — the ground is a huge mesh, and the pond depression is cut into it. But the ground at the pond center is at -1.19, water at 0.25... unless the ground mesh has some faces ABOVE the water.

OR — the pond water disc is inside the ground and the ground is opaque, so from the camera angle, the ground's far side (the pond's far rim, which is ABOVE 0.25) occludes the water. The pond far edge is at (8,-13.4) with terrain 0.33 — above water. The near edge (8,-0.6) terrain 0.42 — also above water. So from the camera at (15.5,-15.5,5) — the camera is SOUTH of the pond. The pond's far side from the camera is the NORTH rim (y=-0.6, at 0.42 height) which is between the camera and... no wait, the camera is south, so the north rim is on the far side. The near rim (south, y=-13.4) is at 0.33 — higher than water 0.25. From a camera at height 5 looking down, the near rim (0.33) would block the view of the water immediately behind it.

But the pond center at (8,-7) is 6.4 units away from the near rim — the water surface should be visible beyond the rim. Unless the rim is tall enough to occlude. The rim at 0.33 vs water at 0.25 — only 8cm higher. From a camera 20 units away at height 5, an 8cm rise at 6.4 units would block the water surface behind it for a distance: the line of sight from camera (height 5) to the water at distance d... the geometry: camera at (15.5,-15.5,5), looking at water at (8,-7,0.25). The ray passes over the near rim (8,-13.4,0.33). The rim is only 0.08 above the water. From the camera's perspective, the ray to the pond center passes at height...

Camera to pond center: direction (-7.5, 8.5, -4.75). Parametrize: P(t) = camera + t*dir. The near rim point (8,-13.4): from camera, delta = (-7.5, 2.1, -4.67). The ray to pond center at the y of the rim... this is getting complicated. The point is, the rim might be occluding the water because the terrain rises above the water level all around.

Actually — the fundamental problem: the pond depression is only 1.5 deep, and the water fills it to 0.25. The terrain around the pond (at radius 6.4+) is at ~0.35-0.55, only slightly above the water. From a low camera angle, the water surface is barely visible. The water should still be visible at the center though.

Let me test more directly: render from straight above the pond to see if the water disc is there at all.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered <home>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\check_top.png\ncenter rgb [0.122 0.122 0.078]\nmean [0.311 0.351 0.212]\n(0, 0) [0.122 0.122 0.078]\n(0, 100) [0.118 0.169 0.09 ]\n(100, 0) [0.094 0.129 0.071]\n(0, -100) [0.122 0.176 0.094]\n(-100, 0) [0.129 0.192 0.102]\n(0, 200) [0.129 0.188 0.102]\n(200, 0) [0.082 0.114 0.071]\n"
}

[Assistant]
From directly above, the pond center shows dark green (0.12,0.12,0.08) — that's the grass/dirt, NOT water. The water disc is definitely not rendering. Even straight down at (8,-7,20), the center pixel is dark ground.

The water disc must be UNDER the ground mesh. Let me check: the ground mesh is one big grid with the pond depression carved in. But the depression function only dips to -1.19 at the exact center, and the rim at 0.35ish. The water disc at z=0.25 with radius 7 — the ground mesh at the pond area should be BELOW 0.25 over most of the depression. Unless... the ground mesh wasn't updated with the terrain function correctly? We saw vertices near the pond at -0.6 to -1.2, so the ground dips properly.

Wait — maybe the issue is the ground mesh has its own faces covering the water: the ground is a grid of 130x130 quads. When the terrain dips, the quads form a dish. The water disc is a flat circle at 0.25. The ground quad at the pond center is at -1.19, but the quad's EDGES might be higher, and the camera from above sees... no, from straight above at (8,-7,20) looking down, the first surface hit at the center is the water at 0.25 (if it exists) or the ground at -1.19. It shows ground, so water is not there.

Let me check if the water object has some modifier or is scaled weirdly, or its mesh data is actually elsewhere. Let me print the water object's matrix world and world-space vertex positions.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "matrix <Matrix 4x4 (1.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,  8.0000)\n            (0.0000, 1.0000, 0.0000, -7.0000)\n            (0.0000, 0.0000, 1.0000,  0.0000)\n            (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,  1.0000)>\nlocation <Vector (8.0000, -7.0000, 0.0000)>\nworld x range 1.0 15.0\nworld y range -14.0 0.0\nworld z range 0.25 0.25\nn verts 72\nsample [[ 8.          0.          0.25      ]\n [ 7.38990974 -0.02663708  0.25      ]\n [ 6.78446293 -0.10634613  0.25      ]]\nscale <Vector (1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000)>\nclosest ground vert <Vector (7.8462, -6.8000, -1.1499)>\n"
}

[Assistant]
The water disc IS at world (8,-7,0.25) with radius 7, and the ground at (7.85,-6.8) is at -1.15 — 1.4 below the water. The water should be visible from above. But the render from above shows ground at the center.

Wait — the water disc z=0.25, but maybe the ground mesh at the pond area has its own surface ABOVE the water near the center? The closest ground vertex to (8,-7) is at (7.85,-6.8,-1.15). So the ground is below. The water disc is at 0.25.

Unless the water disc's faces are being culled. The disc has 1 face with normal (0,0,1). From above, that face faces the camera — should be visible. Unless the disc's face is an NGON with 72 vertices and there's an issue... let me check if the face is a proper ngon and if there are interior edges.

Actually — wait. Let me check the ground mesh: is it possible that the GROUND mesh is not one grid but many overlapping quads, and at the pond, the quads are raised? Let me check the ground mesh structure at the pond. Also, the "check_top" render center was (0.12,0.12,0.08) — very dark. The pond bottom at -1.19 with GroundMat would be greenish (0.2,0.3,0.1). (0.12,0.12,0.08) is darker and neutral — could be the PathMat or shadowed ground.

Let me check by disabling the ground temporarily and rendering.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "rendered\ncenter rgb [0.392 0.451 0.439]\nmean [0.376 0.469 0.538]\n"
}

[Assistant]
With the ground hidden, the water IS visible from above (center 0.39,0.45,0.44 — teal-ish water). So the GROUND is covering the water! The ground mesh at the pond must have faces ABOVE the water surface, even though the vertices dip below.

The ground is a 130x130 grid of quads. The quads near the pond center are at -1.19, but quads further out rise to 0.35. When rendered from directly above, the ground quads at the pond's rim (0.35 > 0.25) should NOT cover the center... unless the ground quads in the pond area are warped such that they cross above the water.

The issue must be the terrain function creating a dish where the rim blocks the center from the camera. From directly above at z=20, looking straight down at (8,-7), the ray hits the water at 0.25 UNLESS the ground between the camera and that point is above 0.25 at the same (x,y). But straight down, the ray is vertical — the ground at (8,-7) is -1.19, water at 0.25 → water is hit first. UNLESS the ground mesh has a face whose projection overlaps (8,-7) at a height ABOVE 0.25 — i.e., the ground quads near the center might be distorted (folded) so that a quad from the rim overlaps the center region.

Hmm, wait — maybe the problem is the ground quads at the pond rim are tilted steeply, and their projected area covers the center. With a 130x130 grid over 68 units, each quad is ~0.52 units. The pond depression is 1.5 deep over 6.4 units radius — steep slopes. A steep quad at the rim could have its surface crossing the vertical line at (8,-7) above the water. But the rim is 6.4 units away from the center — the vertical line at the center is 6.4 units from the rim quads. A quad 6.4 units away can't cover the center.

Let me check: which faces of the ground mesh are above z=0.25 near the pond, and whether their XY projection covers the pond center. Actually, let me check the actual ground surface at the exact center with a ray cast.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "hit True loc <Vector (8.0000, -7.0000, -1.1789)> face 6710\nface normal <Vector (0.0622, -0.0880, 0.9942)> center z -1.1906541287899017\nface verts z [-1.199, -1.229, -1.185, -1.15]\nground max face z 0.596 center <Vector (-26.9385, -26.9385, 0.5585)>\nfaces above 0.25: 14716 of 16900\n"
}

[Assistant]
The ground raycast at (8,-7) hits the ground at -1.18 — but the water is at 0.25! The water should be hit FIRST from above. Unless the water disc object isn't being considered in the raycast (ray_cast only checks the ground mesh). But in the render, the water was only visible when the ground was hidden — meaning in the render, the GROUND is drawn over the water.

This is very strange. The ground at the pond center is at -1.18 (below water 0.25), yet in the render the ground appears instead of water.

OH WAIT. I bet the issue is the water disc is INSIDE the ground mesh — the ground mesh is one solid grid, and the water disc is a separate flat disc. In Cycles, when the water disc is at z=0.25 and the ground at z=-1.18 below it, the water should be hit first. Unless the ground mesh has a face that overlaps the water at a HIGHER z...

Actually, let me reconsider: maybe the render from directly above was actually showing the water but the water material was restored to transmission=1, making it show the ground below through transmission! When I hid the ground, the water showed (teal). When the ground is present, the water is TRANSPARENT (transmission 1.0, no absorption) and shows the ground below! The center pixel 0.12,0.12,0.08 from above is the ground at -1.18 seen through transparent water.

That's it — the water is fully transparent (transmission weight 1.0 with no color absorption), so it looks like the ground. The water material needs to be less transparent — add some absorption or lower transmission, or make it mostly reflective with a tint.

For a pond, a good approach: transmission weight ~0.8 with absorption color (deep teal), plus roughness. Or use a mix of glossy reflection and transmission. In Cycles, glass-like water with transmission 1.0 shows everything behind. For a nice pond look: base color teal, transmission weight 1.0, but add an Absorption node (Volume) or reduce transmission and add glossy.

Simplest fix: keep transmission but add a colored absorption volume (ShaderNodeVolumeAbsorption with a deep green-teal color, density ~0.5-1), so the water has visible depth and color. Or use transmission weight 0.7 + a slight glossy component.

Actually in Cycles, for thin water surfaces (a flat disc), there's no volume — absorption won't work without thickness. The water disc is infinitely thin, so transmission shows the bottom. Options:
1. Make the water a semi-transparent glossy: transmission 0.35, roughness 0.05 — gives a reflective sheen with some see-through.
2. Add a second water layer (a solid "water body" mesh filling the depression) with absorption.
3. Use the transmission with a mix: 60% glossy (reflection) + 40% transmission.

The best look for a pond seen from a distance: mostly reflective with subtle transparency. Let me use Mix Shader: 0.65 glossy (with teal tint, roughness 0.06) + 0.35 transmission (teal). And keep the noise bump. That will show sky reflections (warm sky → warm reflections) and some bottom.

Also — the terrain around the pond rim is above water level (0.35-0.55), so the visible water is only where terrain < 0.25. From the camera's angle, the pond should be clearly visible.

Let me fix the water material.

[Tool]
{
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {},
  "stdout": "water material rebuilt\n"
}

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import bpy, os, tempfile
import numpy as np
from mathutils import Vector
from bpy_extras.object_utils import world_to_camera_view

out = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), 'check_water2.png')
bpy.context.scene.render.filepath = out
bpy.ops.render.render(write_still=True)
print('rendered')

img = bpy.data.images.load(out)
w, h = img.size
px = np.array(img.pixels[:], dtype=float).reshape((h, w, 4))[..., :3]
cam = bpy.data.objects['Camera']
scene = bpy.context.scene
for xyz, label in [((8,-7,0.25),'pond_center'), ((8,-3,0.25),'pond_north'), ((8,-11,0.25),'pond_south'), ((5,-5,0.25),'pond_west')]:
    v = world_to_camera_view(scene, cam, Vector(xyz))
    if 0 <= v.x <= 1 and 0 <= v.y <= 1:
        col = int(v.x*w); row = int((1-v.y)*h)
        print(label, (round(v.x,3), round(v.y,3)), 'rgb', px[row,col].round(3))
    else:
        print(label, 'off', (round(v.x,3), round(v.y,3)))
print('overall mean', px[..., :3].mean(axis=(0,1)).round(3))
bpy.data.images.remove(img)

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