Glossary

The whole 3dCMS vocabulary, defined once.

Scene

Your 3D document: everything in the editor.

Node

Any single thing in a scene: an object, camera, particle emitter, group, or page.

Page surface

A panel-shaped node holding one page of content (copy, images, links, SEO). The building block of multi-page 3D sites.

Neighborhood

One page and everything bound to it. A visitor is in exactly one at a time, and the rest switch off, including each one's own budget of four shadow-casting lights.

Site

A published destination with its own URL. One account can host several.

Source scene

An editable copy of a scene stored on your account (created with Save As). Survives across devices.

Autosave

The working draft kept automatically in your browser.

Handle

The personal part of your publish URLs (3dcms.info/<handle>/…). Locked after your first publish.

Active site

The site that Publish targets right now.

Primary site

The site that the old bare-domain page URLs (/3d/…, /text/…) redirect to. A deployment-level setting; no site owns the root URL any more.

Featured

A time-limited promotion that sorts a scene to the front of Explore and the profile grids. Placement only. No URL changes.

Primitive

One of the five built-in parametric shapes: box, sphere, cylinder, plane, torus.

Component mode

The editing mode where you select a mesh's individual vertices, edges, and faces.

Gizmo

The on-screen handles you drag to move, rotate, or scale.

Pivot

The point an object rotates and scales around.

NURBS

A smooth spline curve you can revolve or loft into a surface.

Material

An object's surface, built from nodes in the material graph.

ORMH

A packed texture convention: Occlusion, Roughness, Metalness, Height in one image's channels.

Particle emitter

A node that sprays many small particles: smoke, sparks, grass.

Force field

An invisible field that pushes, pulls, or swirls nearby particles.

Decimate / LOD

Reducing a model's triangle count; LOD swaps in cheaper versions at a distance.

Instancing

Drawing many copies of one object in a single, cheap draw call.

Semantic mirror

The crawlable HTML version of every published page.

Consumer view

The fullscreen, chrome-free experience your visitors get.

BYOK

"Bring your own key." The AI features run on your own Anthropic / fal.ai keys, stored only in your browser.

Managed AI

A paid-plan alternative to BYOK: the Assistant and generation run on 3dCMS's own keys and draw from your monthly credit pool. A pasted key always wins over it.

Credit

The unit every AI price is quoted in: 1 credit = $0.01 of AI provider cost. A model is 20 (30 at high detail), a material 8. Managed-AI plans meter against a monthly pool of them; on your own key the same figure is what fal.ai bills.

MCP

Model Context Protocol, the standard that lets Claude Desktop/Code drive your saved scenes.

apply_ops

The validated batch of edits the AI uses to change a scene. One batch = one Undo.