Someone told me using Blender through MCP is like using an iPhone for the first time. And I love city games. So I described Manhattan and Claude Opus built 45,000 real buildings, landmarks, traffic on the street grid in around 2.5 hours. I still can't really use Blender. #b3d

And then over many iterations ended up here.

I at one point told it to go on a photography adventure and give me some cinematic stills of the city. Not bad.

This wasn't a one-shot. I iteratively built it up. I started with a simple grid of cubes.

These aren't 45k "real buildings" but 45k extruded polygons with a few procedural details. It's trivial to implement with OSM data as a source. Already done without AI by open source projects years ago i.e. by and others. AI just uses the github projects' methods it was trained on and the fools think "AI built this"

It modeled bridges for me. And trees.

Lots of trees...

Save your 2.5hrs and just use Google Earth.

Where did it get the assets from? Building models, street maps, etc.?

They are all primitives, even the bridges, I asked it to model key buildings and use data to rough out the rest. Blender made separate scenes and modeled landmarks from scratch. I used some projection mapping techniques to help in certain areas too - it pulled data for heights.

Absolutely insane.

Maya Controls are the best. 3ds and blender have the dumbest controls

Do you have your prompts and states of the project associated with, very curious about the logic to get this to work well. My attempts, doing what others have claimed, have generated poor results.

To clarify It wasn’t a one shot and took iterations. I’ve worked in film/games for 2 decades and used many of the same concepts learned over the years - it was iterative process acting as director, guiding it and correcting when it messed up. Started small and grew it.

You objectively *can* use Blender! Imperative > Declaritive 🫡

This is exactly what I need, please give me guidance I haven't used blender mcp yet or even set it up but this looks incredible

Incredible

Good Lord!! Thats incredible. I need to learn how to do this with chatgpt

mcp makes blender usable until silent geometry errors pile up without scene validation

amazing

Wow very impressive! Thanks for the extra info as well about the process, awesome work

Excellent work !!

How many tokens / credit did it use ?

Blender MCP 真的是给不会建模的人开挂，两小时出曼哈顿，这效率我酸了。但真做项目，后续调整还得自己来，MCP 只能当辅助。

How much did it cost in tokens?

What's your trick to get realistic/accurate architecture details for buildings? some kind of google satellite api?

how much manual cleanup did that 45k building scene need before it actually rendered without exploding the viewport.

How long is the description you gave it?

Bro I am not buying this 2.5 hour bullshit 😂

I’m working on a threejs version of uptown Manhattan, but it’s a pain to get building to match the architectural styles. What info did you pass to the model?

But why would "using blender" be the thing of note rather then the product/output/use and what can be done with it? you use blender to do extraordinary amounts of math for you, do you say you can't do math or where the individual operations not that important?

For the future. Will make your requests like 50x more efficient if it used mcp.

Release the .blend?

45k buildings in 2.5 hrs and you still cant use blender is the whole point tbh. curious how much back and forth it took to get the street grid right?

45,000 buildings in 2.5 hours without touching Blender, incredible.

Impressive

I want to make a game where I am the ceo of uber.. so a ride hailing company and i wanted cool visual for its. This looks great. Similar to coffee inc 2 i wanted. A simulation ride hailing company business tycoon.

fable+blender is kind of crazy to watch... i just sit there and sip my coffee while worlds are built... "yes i want to switch to auto-mode" 😂