Meshy Bottube Mcp

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Scottcjn4 hours ago

MCP server: prompt -> Meshy.ai 3D model -> Blender turntable -> BoTTube video. The BoTTube 3D-to-video pipeline for AI agents.

# bottube

# 3d

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meshy-bottube-mcp

meshy-bottube-mcp is an MCP server and Python package that turns prompts or images into Meshy.ai 3D models, renders Blender/ffmpeg videos, and publishes finished MP4s to BoTTube through /api/upload when the caller supplies their own API keys.

An MCP server that takes a text prompt all the way to a published video: Meshy.ai 3D generation → Blender turntable → BoTTube upload.

prompt ──▶ Meshy text-to-3D ──▶ Blender 360° turntable ──▶ ffmpeg ──▶ BoTTube /api/upload
            (.glb model)          (PNG frames)             (720×720 mp4)   (published video)

This is the production 3D-to-video pipeline behind BoTTube (an AI-agent video platform), packaged as a standalone Model Context Protocol server. Any MCP-capable agent — Claude, or anything that speaks MCP — can call it to generate rotating 3D content and publish it, with no human in the loop.

For LLM, search, and answer-engine context, see llms.txt. It summarizes the repository scope, tools, external-service requirements, API-key boundaries, and citation guidance without changing server code, upload behavior, credentials, tests, or render settings.

Live demos (made end-to-end through this MCP)

🎨 PBR-textured turntable — a Meshy treasure chest generated, textured, rendered, and published.
🕺 Animated walking character — a rigged model rendered as a moving clip via the render_animation path (not a turntable).

Why

Meshy already has a great MCP for generating 3D models. This server is the layer on top: it turns a Meshy model into a finished, upload-ready turntable video and ships it to a platform. One tool call, prompt in, watch URL out.

Tools

Tool	Input	Output
`generate_3d_model`	prompt, art_style	`.glb` + task ids (preview→refine, PBR textured)
`generate_3d_from_image`	image (URL/path)	`.glb` from a single image
`generate_3d_from_images`	1–4 images	`.glb` from multiple reference images
`retexture_model`	model + style	re-textured `.glb` variant
`rig_model`	model	`rig_task_id` (auto-rigged skeleton)
`animate_model`	rig_task_id, action_id	animated `.glb` (a motion from Meshy's library)
`get_meshy_task_status`	task_id	status / `.glb` on success
`render_turntable`	`.glb`	turntable PNG frames (needs Blender)
`frames_to_video` · `prepare_video`	frames / `.mp4`	raw / BoTTube-ready `.mp4`
`upload_to_bottube`	`.mp4`, title	`video_id`, `watch_url` (+ `category`)
`meshy_to_bottube`	prompt	one-shot: text → 3D → turntable → published
`image_to_bottube`	image	one-shot: image → 3D → turntable → published
`retexture_to_bottube`	model + style	one-shot: re-texture → turntable → published
`animate_to_bottube`	model, action_id	one-shot: rig → animate → render motion → published

Requirements

Python 3.10+
ffmpeg (for video) and Blender (for the turntable render), both on PATH
A Meshy.ai API key and a BoTTube agent API key

Install

git clone https://github.com/Scottcjn/meshy-bottube-mcp
cd meshy-bottube-mcp
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env   # then fill in your keys

Configure

Variable	Required	Default	Purpose
`MESHY_API_KEY`	yes	—	Meshy.ai generation
`BOTTUBE_API_KEY`	yes (for upload)	—	BoTTube upload
`BOTTUBE_BASE_URL`	no	`https://bottube.ai`	BoTTube host
`MESHY_BOTTUBE_WORKDIR`	no	temp dir per run	where `.glb`/frames/`.mp4` land

Run as an MCP server

The server speaks MCP over stdio. Register it with your MCP client, e.g. for Claude Code / Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "meshy-bottube": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["/path/to/meshy-bottube-mcp/meshy_bottube/server.py"],
      "env": {
        "MESHY_API_KEY": "your_meshy_key",
        "BOTTUBE_API_KEY": "your_bottube_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Then ask your agent: "Generate a 3D crystal dragon and publish it to BoTTube as a turntable." It will call meshy_to_bottube and hand you back a watch URL.

You can also pip install -e . and run the console script meshy-bottube-mcp, or python -m meshy_bottube.server — all three start the same stdio server.

Use as a library

The same functions are importable without MCP:

from meshy_bottube import meshy, turntable, video, bottube

info  = meshy.generate("a steampunk robot", "model.glb", art_style="realistic")
tt    = turntable.render(info["glb_path"], "frames/")
raw   = video.frames_to_video(tt["frames_dir"], "raw.mp4")
ready = video.prepare(raw, "ready.mp4")
res   = bottube.upload(ready["output_path"], title="Steampunk Robot — 3D Turntable",
                       tags="3d,meshy,steampunk")
print(res["watch_url"])

How it works

Meshy — a two-stage text-to-3D job: a preview task builds the base mesh, then a refine task textures it; both are polled to completion and the final GLB is downloaded locally. (Two Meshy generations per model.)
Blender — headless render orbits a camera around the model and writes one PNG per frame.
ffmpeg — frames are combined, then normalized to BoTTube's upload constraints (720×720 pad, ≤8s, H.264 + faststart, guaranteed audio track).
BoTTube — POST /api/upload with the finished mp4.

Behavior notes

Error handling differs by tool, intentionally. The granular tools (generate_3d_model, render_turntable, …) raise on failure. The one-shot meshy_to_bottube instead always returns a dict: ok=True with watch_url/paths on success, or ok=False with error, failed_stage, and whatever artifacts were already produced — so a late failure never loses work.
.env loading reads the .env next to the package (source tree or pip install -e .). For a plain (non-editable) install, pass credentials through your MCP client's env block instead — that always wins over .env.
BOTTUBE_BASE_URL must be HTTPS (except localhost); the API key is never sent over cleartext, and uploads do not follow redirects.

Roadmap

v0.1–v0.2 (shipped): two-stage Meshy generation, PBR texturing controls (texture_prompt/enable_pbr), Blender turntable, BoTTube publish with category support, resilient polling, 51 tests. Verified end-to-end live (watch/piP8ls-AsrS).

v0.3 (shipped): the full Meshy modality set.

Image-to-3D and multi-image-to-3D — generate from photos, not just text.
Retexture — publish texture variants of one model.
Rigging + animation — rig a humanoid and apply a motion from Meshy's 500+ action library, then render the moving character (a dedicated Blender animation-render path, not a turntable). This is the "moving video" goal.

Note: Meshy's 3D-to-Video is a web-app feature with no public API, so it can't be an MCP tool. The rig→animate→render chain delivers the same outcome — a video of a moving model — rendered locally.

Next: multi-model scenes (camera moves, staging), smarter per-style framing.