Boxshot (formerly called Box Shot 3D) is a 3D product and packaging mockup program for Windows and Mac platforms, developed by Appsforlife from New Zealand. It provides a large number of customizable shapes and preset templates, realistic rendering engine, animation, scripting, import, export and other functions, and can become a must-have tool for packaging designers.

As a professional, powerful and easy-to-use visual design tool for product packaging, Boxshot can help users easily create a variety of realistic three-dimensional display renderings of packaging design, including software, books, Blu-ray/DVD/CD, cards, boxes, jars, bottles, mugs, bags, and more. It allows users to design from two modes: flat and three-dimensional: in flat mode, users can design one side exclusively, and in 3D mode, you can show your design effect.

All shapes in Boxshot are scriptable, you can control the entire scene with just a few lines of code, and they can be blended with render jobs to create more complex scenes. In addition, Boxshot supports all major material types (such as metal, plastic, paint, glass, liquid, etc.), and allows you to use parameters or textures to fully control the state of material (such as reflection, transmission, roughness, bump, etc.), making them look more realistic.

Boxshot provides an intuitive user interface, can perform operations such as rotating, zooming, or lighting rendering on the packaging, allowing to display your design in a WYSIWYG form. Almost all of the shapes are customizable, so you can adapt them to your own designs. If you need more shapes, just load them. BoxShot supports loading model files in FBX, 3DS, STL, PLY, DXF, OBJ and Collada (DAE) formats for use in scenes.

// Key Features //

Feature	Description
Shapes	Shapes library — more than 70 customizable shapes: boxes, books, mugs, CDs, DVDs, cans and much more; Automatic resize — shapes are automatically adjusted to fit the artwork; Customization — almost all the shapes are parametric, so you can configure them a lot; Books — many customizable book shapes included: hard-cover books, paperbacks, and magazines, open and closed, standing or lying down; Composing tools — Boxshot can stack, align, and distribute scene objects the way you need; CAD shapes — Boxshot has highly customizable parametric objects that can do bottles, cans and various containers using the provided outlines; Shrink wrap — Boxshot can simulate heat–shrink film for wrapping objects; External shapes — it doesn’t matter how many shapes are provided: there is always one missing. No problem! Drop a shape into the scene and Boxshot will load it for you; Extending library — any shape including the external ones can be added back to the library for further re-using.
Materials	Material types — all the main material types are supported: metals, plastics, paint, glass, liquid, etc; Physically-based — Boxshot simulates all the necessary physics behinds the scene, so materials look realistic; Full control — you can control reflection, transmission, roughness and bump with parameters or textures; Printing effects — Boxshot supports UV-spot and foil printing effects; Decals — place extra artwork as decals where needed. Boxshot supports unlimited customizable decals; Artwork formats — all the main image formats, including AI, PSD and PDF are supported; Color profiles — Boxshot supports images in CMYK and other color spaces and cares about color profiles; Default materials — every shape comes with default materials, so in most cases you simply need to replace the artwork; Materials library — the built-in materials library has more than 200 sample materials so you don’t start from scratch.
Rendering	Physically-based rendering — the built-in path-tracing engine makes your renderings look so realistic, your customers may think that it’s a photo; Linear workflow — Boxshot does all the math in linear color space, so the gamma correction issues don’t affect the colors; HDR processing — all the processing is done with 32 bit precision (per channel) for perfect output quality; High resolution — resolutions of up to 16384×16384 pixels are supported; Lighting — Boxshot uses image-based lighting with HDR environment image, but you can also have directional and omni lights where needed; Shadows — you can configure nice shadows by positioning the built-in “sun” object; Depth of field — Boxshot can simulate the lens by blurring the out-of-focus parts of the scene for more realistic results; Transparent background — you can turn the background off if needed; Output formats — Boxshot can save to most image formats, including 32-bit PSD and EXR formats.
Supported Formats	Raster images — Boxshot reads and writes JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PSD formats; Vector images — Boxshot reads Adobe Illustrator (AI) and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files; Color spaces and profiles — CMYK and other color spaces, as well as embedded color profiles are fully supported; HDR images — Boxshot reads and writes high definition range images in HDR, EXR and PSD formats; Importing 3D models — Boxshot reads FBX, 3DS, OBJ, Collada formats, as well as STL, PLY and DXF formats; 3D models editing — you can edit normals, texture mapping and visibility of external models’ elements; Exporting 3D models — Boxshot exports to OBJ, Collada and 3D PDF formats.
Batch Processing	Render later — you can queue up scenes and render them later when needed; Batch rendering — Boxshot lets you render the same scene with many images to create a set of similar objects; Animations — Boxshot supports turn-table, transition, and oscillation animations; Scripting — almost every shape in Boxshot is scriptable, so you can control the whole scene with code; Rendering jobs — Boxshot supports complex rendering scenarios by using job files which combine projects, artwork and scripts into a single XML file; Command line support — Boxshot can make, convert and render scenes and jobs completely without user interface by using command line switches.

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// Edition Statement //

AppNee provides the Boxshot Ultimate Edition multilingual full installers and unlock patches, as well as portable full registered versions for Windows 64-bit, and Mac.

// Related Links //

• Boxshot Editions Comparison
• Boxshot Online Tutorial
• Boxshot Gallery

// Download URLs //

License	Version	Download	Size
for Windows
Ultimate Edition	v5.6.3		174 MB
for Mac
Ultimate Edition	v5.0.8		150 MB

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