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Glossary

Every term used inside F. BINSABBAR Studio - the 3D viewer, editor, materials, environment, personalization, and the file pipeline. Search to filter; terms group by topic.

Surfaces #

Viewer: The public 3D viewer at studio.fbinsabbar.com. Loads a model via ?model=<glb-url>; embeddable on Online Store product pages.
Editor: The internal design tool for tweaking a model: meshes, materials, gems, environment, personalization. Sign-in required. Output is a published record the Viewer consumes.
Materials panel: The material library and inspector. AMBASSADOR_PLUS only. Creates and edits PBR metals, transmission glass, and the ray-traced gem shader with live preview.
Environment panel: The HDRI and lighting setup. AMBASSADOR_PLUS only. Tunes Azimuth, Elevation, Exposure, Bloom, the Softbox area light, and Sky/Ground tints.
Roles: Three tiers: PUBLIC (Viewer only), AMBASSADOR (view and Export GLB, no Publish), AMBASSADOR_PLUS (full edit, Publish, library writes).

Materials & rendering #

PBR: Physically-Based Rendering - material model defined by base color, metalness, roughness, normal, AO. The default for metals.
Color: The material's base colour, set as a hex value with a swatch picker.
Metalness: How metallic a surface reads. 1.0 for solid metals; 0 for non-metals.
Roughness: Surface microfacet variation. 0 is mirror-polished; 1 is fully diffuse.
IOR: Index of Refraction. How light bends entering the material. Diamond ≈ 2.42, glass ≈ 1.5.
Transmission: How much light passes through the material rather than reflecting off it. Drives transparency in glass and gem materials.
Clearcoat: A thin glossy layer over the base material - adds wet-look highlights without changing the underlying colour.
Glass material: Labelled "Glass - real refraction" in the picker. Used for transmission resins, glassy fills, and enamel coatings.
Gem shader: Custom faceted-gem shader with BVH ray-traced refraction and dispersion, per-gem IOR. Shipped gem types: diamond, ruby, sapphire, emerald.
Softbox: Soft area light applied between camera and model - controls highlight character on metals. Tunable opacity, color, intensity, size, blur, distance, height, tilt, rotation.

Environment & lighting #

HDRI: High-Dynamic-Range Image - the panoramic environment map that drives reflections and ambient lighting. Two ship today: a photo-studio HDR and a neon photo-studio HDR. Designers pick a preset and tune on top.
Azimuth / Elevation: The two-axis sun-direction control. Azimuth rotates the sun around the model; Elevation lifts it above or below the horizon.
Env X / Y / Z: HDRI rotation - pivots the entire environment map around the model.
Tone Mapping / Exposure: ACES Filmic tone mapping with an Exposure slider - controls how bright the rendered image reads.
Bloom: Post-process glow on the brightest highlights. Tunable Threshold and Strength.
Sky Tint / Ground Tint: Colour tints applied to the upper and lower halves of the environment map, for gentle warm/cool grading without swapping HDRIs.
Softbox: Optional soft area light over the model. Independent of the HDRI; tunable size, intensity, colour, distance, height, tilt, rotation, blur.

Personalization & bespoke #

Personalize: The customer-facing toolbox action that opens the engraving input. The public Viewer exposes engraving only - material, gem, and finish choices are made by the design team in the Editor.
Engraving: Text engraved on a designated face of the model. Typed live in the Viewer. Multi-line and multi-language supported.
Monogram: The customer's initials rendered as a 3D-engraved or applied-relief detail. Configured by the design team during the bespoke conversation.
Viewer link: Shareable URL with the form ?model=<glb-url>. The customer (or storefront) loads the configuration in the Viewer; engraving is typed there, not encoded in the URL.
AR: Augmented Reality. Today: iPhone and iPad only, via USDZ + Apple Quick Look. Triggered by the "View in AR" button on supported models. Android Scene Viewer is not wired today.

Workflow #

Publish: The primary Editor action. Uploads the GLB, the main image, and any saved camera shots, writes a versioned record to the brand CDN, and confirms with "Published to <reference number>" (e.g. DB3111). Tooltip: "Publish to FB Ambassadors & Online Store".
Unpublished edits: Working changes in the Editor that haven't been Published yet. There's no labelled Draft state and no Draft/Publish toggle - edits are simply unpublished until you tap Publish.
Save: Saves a personal working file (AMBASSADOR_PLUS only). Distinct from Publish; doesn't update the public record.
Share Link: "Copy viewer link" - copies the public URL for the current configuration to the clipboard.
Snapshot: Takes a square shot of the model at the current camera, for use in catalogue artwork or share cards.
Set default view: Locks the current camera position as the default the Viewer opens at.
Export GLB: Downloads the current model as a GLB file. Available to AMBASSADOR and AMBASSADOR_PLUS.

3D file pipeline #

GLB: Binary glTF - the 3D model file format used end-to-end (Studio, Ambassadors app, storefront Viewer).
Compression: The Viewer ships Draco, KTX2, and Meshopt decoders, so GLB files can use any of those compression schemes.
USDZ: Apple's 3D format used for AR on iOS. Studio auto-derives the USDZ sibling URL from each GLB path; the explicit ?usdz=<url> param overrides it.
AR (Quick Look): iPhone and iPad only today. Tapping "View in AR" hands the USDZ to Apple Quick Look, which places the piece in the camera view.
Embed mode: Pass ?embed=1 to drop chrome and let a native WebView host frame the Viewer cleanly.

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