# Blender Clothing

Game clothing in Blender 5.2 - garments from body regions (ease offset, thickness)...

- Repository: https://github.com/EL4CTEO/blender-skills (651 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add EL4CTEO/blender-skills --skill blender-clothing -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add EL4CTEO/blender-skills --skill blender-clothing -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add EL4CTEO/blender-skills --skill blender-clothing -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add EL4CTEO/blender-skills --skill blender-clothing -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add EL4CTEO/blender-skills`

## Description

Game clothing in Blender 5.2 - garments from body regions (ease offset, thickness), skin-weight transfer, hiding covered body faces, cloth-sim draping for folds, body-morph shape keys on garments, layered clothing, pose-aware poke-through checks, sim-to-game-mesh cleanup. Use for shirts, pants, armor, outfits, layered or swappable clothing.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Clothing

The execution model is in `blender-core`. The rig and weights are in `blender-character-rigging`, classic cloth settings in `blender-simulation`, and Roblox layered clothing cages in `blender-export-pipelines` (references/roblox.md).

## One call each
```
scripts/garment.py -- --body Body --group Torso --name Shirt --hide-body
scripts/garment.py -- --body Body --zmin 0.45 --zmax 1.05 --name Pants --offset 0.01 --drape 40 --morphs
scripts/garment.py -- --body Body --group Torso --name Armor --offset 0.02 --thickness 0.008
scripts/garment.py -- --check Shirt --body Body          # pose the rig first: checks the current pose
```

## How pros build game clothing
1. **Shape**: start from the body (extract + offset) for fitted clothes, or from flat patterns sewn by cloth sim (Marvelous Designer or Blender cloth with sewing springs) for loose ones. Simulate on the body in its **rest pose** (A/T).
2. **Game mesh**: retopo the high/sim result to clean, even quads with loops at the joints (elbows, knees, shoulders get 3 loops), then UV it. Bake folds into normal maps (`blender-texture-baking`) so the low mesh stays light.
3. **Skin**: copy weights from the body (same bones, same influences), clean them (limit 4, normalize, drop < 0.001), then blend toward smoother weights only on loose parts (skirts, coats) and add extra bones for those.
4. **Hide what's covered**: delete body faces under the garment (save tris, stop poke-through) or mask them per outfit. Keep one ring of skin under cuffs and collars.
5. **Verify in motion**: stress poses (`blender-character-rigging` `stress_poses.py`), then `--check` in each. Fix by easing (offset), smoothing the body there, weight tweaks, or hiding.

The rest: https://github.com/EL4CTEO/blender-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/blender-clothing/SKILL.md