Boxshot and 3d Box Shot Maker Software for Windows

Box Shot 3D
$50 - BoxShot3D.com

Box Shot 3D is the only raytracing-based virtual cover renderer.
Allows to create software boxshots, 3d ebook covers, member cards, CD and DVD boxes and much more.
Box Shot 3D uses raytracing, so you will have realistic lighting, shadows and reflection.
Support of batch rendering and resolutions up to 4000x4000 pixels allows to use Box Shot 3D to produce print-quality images.
Box Shot 3D supports user-defined presets, has easy and attractive user interface and it is really easy to use.

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Cover Expert
$49 - DeluxeRay

Cover Expert is a professional solution with a user-friendly interface for creating high-quality virtual covers, boxshots and ebooks for your products contributing to their promotion and sales on the Internet. Saving you time, Cover Expert allows you to achieve the desired final result in just a couple of mouse clicks.
The main purpose of Cover Expert comes down to helping you interest your potential customer, draw the prospect's attention to your product. Cover Expert will give your products a presentable appearance and help them stand out against their competitors. A powerful graphics engine, any complex scenes that you like, a large number of supported image formats ? all that will allow you to make your creative ideas come true without limiting your imagination.
Main features:
- dynamically creating complex scenes consisting of several objects (Box + CD, DVD + DVD Box etc.);
- a powerful graphics engine supporting the reflection and half-transparency effects in real time;
- rotating, moving and resizing each object in the scene in real time;
- image formats for textures: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, ICO, TIFF, TGA, PCX, WBMP, WMF, EMF, J2K, JP2, JBG, J2C, JPC, PGX, PNM, PGM, PPM, RAS;
- saving the final image in the formats: PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, TGA, JP2, JPC, RAS, PNM;
- dynamic lights, shadows and the reflection of the whole scene in real time;
- changing the background color, setting transparency for the background;
- high-quality rendering with the resolution up to 3000x3000 pixels;
- rotating and repositioning the camera and the camera target in real time.

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3D Box Shot Maker
$0 - BossEye Inc.

3D Box Shot Maker is an easy and FREE tool to virtually desgin quality box shot as your software box cover. It is important to present a professional boxshot to attract your potential customers to take a closer look at your products. An impressive box shot will make your software outstanding, and easily defeat your competitors at the start.

3D Box Shot Maker accepts a front image and a side image as input, and generate the final image on the fly. It can also include a shadow and a reflection in your box shot. It will show the preview image instantly as you adjust the size and other parameters.

Three steps to get your own boxshot:
1. Set the side(left) and the Front(right) images.
2. Adjust the boxshot size, shadow and reflection.
3. Save the generated boxshot image out as image file. It supports 4 image format: BMP, JPG, PNG, and GIF.

Present your software box cover with 3D Box Shot Maker, the ultimate solution, electronically!

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Quick 3D Cover
$49.95 - Nervepreserve.com

Quick 3D Cover makes professional illustrations of books covers, boxshots, jewel cases, DVD cases and other objects. It's for authors, developers and designers who want to get professional illustrations very quickly and preserve their own time and cash.

Quick 3D Cover includes a gallery of more than 100 manually drawn templates and embeds your artwork into the templates. Doing this, Quick 3D Cover naturally repeats the steps of a professional artist drawing an illustration by hand with professional graphical software like such as Photoshop. The creation of your professional illustration can take less than a minute.

Quick 3D Cover can save pictures with transparency so the result can be easily processed with any other graphical program. Output resolution is up to 4000 x 4000 pixels. The program supports commonly used file formats: Jpeg, Tiff, Png, Gif, Bmp and PSP.

Quick 3D Cover doesn't need a 3d hardware accelerator. Nor do you need any knowledge of 3d-technology to use it.

Quick 3D Cover has a very convenient productivity tool called "Batch Rendering". This very simple and powerful tool allows you to make many illustrations at once. For example, you can produce your own press-kit with a few mouse clicks. And another example: you can make many variants of the illustration at once and just select the best one with your favorite picture viewer

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Insofta Cover Commander
$69 - Insofta Development

This is a typical designer's task: create an image of a product box, book, manual, DVD, CD (etc.) for a web site, electronic presentation or a paper publication. In the past, this was done by photographers. It's a long and expensive process. Photographic images aren't perfect, have resolution limitations and you can hardly edit them. Today, designers normally use 3D-rendering software. Synthetic images are perfectly clean. You can use various visual effects and transparent backgrounds to smoothly embed your graphics into existing designs. Additionally, you don't have to set up another photo session if you need to change something in your images.

There's still a downside, though. You need to own an expensive 3-rendering package and you need to be familiar with it. It takes time to create even a simple model.

Your best option is to use a specialized 3-rendering application that does not require advanced knowledge in 3D design and allows you to create a professional graphic in minutes.

Unfortunately, most of the available programs of this kind are rather limited. They render a simple texturized parallelepiped. They use the 3D-rendering features of your video card that are normally intended for games and not for professional designs.

Cover Commander from Insofta uses software rendering for maximum quality and does not require any specific 3D acceleration hardware. The program includes a wizard that allows you to create an image in a few quick steps. The process of creating an image is highly customizable yet contains a set of presets for each step for fast and effortless customization. You start with a basic scene template: a box model, a box with a CD, book, manual, DVD-box, a 3D-screenshot, etc. The other wizard steps allow you to select images that you wish to put onto the 3D objects, set up light sources, shadows and reflections. The resulting image can be exported into a range of graphic formats, including PNG with alpha-channel.

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VRMars-Spirit - The Red Planet Mars 3D
$23 - Sciterian Technologies

Take a virtual reality tour of the planet Mars and get 3D views of surroundings or soil samples. 4GB on DVD... Covers the years 2004-2007 of the MER-Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Mission... 6 quickly switchable resolutions of viewing. See many Martian panoramas from any angle, craters, mountains, rocks, microscopic images and other features of the Martian landscape in an easy way... In any panorama click hot spots, zoom in or out for details or wider panoramic views. Use satellite maps for faster navigation or localization and easily access 3D images. If you wish, you can watch it as a movie as well, just play demo. VRMars-Spirit - The Red Planet Mars 3D is VRPresents technology-based hobby software on DVD, released by Sciterian Technologies, recommended for people interested in astronomy, cosmos, planets, solar system, space flights, science, galaxies, stars, nebulae, the Milky Way Galaxy... It is a very useful presentation on the planet Mars, similar to a 3D game, containing not only visual virtual reality data, but also a comprehensive information on Mars. It could be used in schools and other education related entities for teaching purposes. Because the application is really very interesting, it is recommended also for the wider public. It is better than movies or books on Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, etc.

It is not just a simple image collection, but an advanced virtual reality presentation. Thanks to our VRPresents technology, you can watch the surface of Mars in the way like you were there yourself. This means that you have a freedom to move in any available direction. During this virtual tour you can use maps and even a compass. If you wish to see something closer, just zoom in or switch to a higher resolution mode. You do not need a spaceship to enjoy the planet, just visit the high resolution VR world embedded into VRMars-Spirit - The Red Planet Mars 3D software.

Full version contains about 4GB of high quality virtual-reality-related data.

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