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June 27th, 2010

While working on the next version I decided to release it as a major upgrade. New shapes and 64-bits support look enough to name the upcoming release “3.0″. Below I describe my vision of the third version of Box Shot 3D and answer to some possible questions.

A long-awaited paid upgrade

First of all, the most important feature of the third version that I’ve promised is “multiple shapes”. It will not be added in version 3.0, but I’ll definitely add it in 3.XX series, so don’t worry about that too much. I am yet to speed up the rendering engine to allow editing of multiple shapes. This will take some time, but I hope to finish it by the end of this year.

The second thing is supported platforms. The third version of Box Shot 3D will natively support both 32 and 64 bit Mac and Windows. As OS X Tiger doesn’t support 64 bits, and according to the site statistics Tiger is used by approximately 5% of visitors, I don’t think that Tiger-version will survive for a really long time. However, I’ll do my best to release Tiger versions as long as possible. Tiger version will be available for downloading as a separate link. If you still use Tiger, please upgrade it

Now, the price. All the previous upgrades were free. This one is not, at least for those, who purchased a license before 2010. Everyone, who purchased Box Shot 3D in 2010 will get version 3.0 for free. All the rest will get a 50% discount. I have no mind to change the price right now, but it will be definitely changed after releasing the “multiple shapes” feature.

For those, who aren’t going to upgrade at all, the latest 2.XX version will be available in the download section. I will not add new features there, but all the found bugs will be fixed.

Questions?

P.S.: Yes, the bucks are rendered in Box Shot 3D

Your Comments:

1.	Glenboid June 28th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
	Looking forward to it Vitaly The render looks very good from the bucks image!
2.	Paul June 30th, 2010 at 11:51 am
	Will all 3.XX upgrades be free, even though the price of the program goes up after the multiple shapes feature is added?
3.	Vitaly [Box Shot 3D] [+] June 30th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
	Paul, sure. All minor upgrades are free and the multiple shapes feature will be added as a part of minor upgrade.
4.	Aljiro [+] July 1st, 2010 at 6:50 pm
	Just bought BoxShot3D and I am glad the upgrade will be free. Your software is truly awesome. I wish you the best in the further development of the software. Thanks.
5.	Loz [+] July 5th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
	Like what i see. Does this mean il finally be able to do stacked business cards..? that have a surface texture to the card etc. Cant wait. Great work Vitaly;)
6.	Steve [+] July 6th, 2010 at 8:17 am
	Love the stack of money. Multiple shapes is going to be a great addition.
7.	IMAM A.B July 7th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
	Thanks for all your efforts Vitaly. I would like to know what the coming version “multiple shapes” will contain in terms of shape. I like the bucks. I’ve not bought the software but I can tell you that I still enjoy the trial version with all the black lines embedded on every image. I will definitely make a purchase before the 2010 runs out so that I can benefit from the free upgrade. Thanks so much once again. This is coming from Nigeria
8.	David [+] July 9th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
	Hello Vitaly, I just bought your software but I didn’t get the 3.0 version… However, far more critical is this: HOW do I get my own image into boxshot?? The software only allows me to open .box3d project files, so how do I transform my gif, jpg, tiff, or whatever images into your project file type?? One other point is: When I change the width and height to that of my image (160*225), the resizing makes half of the image disappear. – The “help” file says “To zoom out, click the minus at the bottom left corner” – which minus, there’s none…? Please can you respond urgently because I bought it to get a project finished? – Thanks. David
9.	David [+] July 10th, 2010 at 2:13 am
	Vitaly, meanwhile I understood how to get my own image in there (images! but the zoom minus/plus is still not anywhere, the sizing problem remains too…?
10.	James Smith July 10th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
	Hey Vitaly That’s great news. Do you think you will have the open dust jacket view added in this release? Also, do you know roughly when will you be launching the new version?
11.	Pebowski July 11th, 2010 at 9:40 am
	@David: on the Images section goto Crop – then just drag the boarders to the size you want
12.	Pebowski July 11th, 2010 at 9:44 am
	@David or try the button “Fit shape to image”
13.	David [+] July 13th, 2010 at 3:39 am
	Hey thanks Pebowski! Oh, and I’d like to add for other visitors: Just done my first ebook 3D image, and Vitaly’s software is simply awesome!!! Easy to use, powerful, and the results after rendering are far more “life-like” than photoshop images!! So, thanks Vitaly for making the BEST software most reasonably priced!
14.	Vitaly [Box Shot 3D] [+] July 13th, 2010 at 11:02 am
	Loz, yep David, it seems that we’ve figured this out by e-mail. James Smith, I’m not sure about dust jackets in this release. Perhaps a bit later. As for the date, I hope to finish it in August.
15.	Rogier July 15th, 2010 at 10:27 am
	With multiple shapes you mean rendering like 3 boxes in ‘one image’ ?
16.	hanibal July 19th, 2010 at 11:59 am
	Please don’t forget to include the shape: Desktop Calendar on the version 3 of Box Shot 3D!!!! ^^
17.	IMAM A.B July 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
	Please Vital, do not forget to include “custom” in the resolution rendering. Give the freedom instead of the usual “4000×4000″ max. Let user defines what they want instead of fixed size. Thanks
18.	Vitaly [Box Shot 3D] [+] July 22nd, 2010 at 12:54 pm
	Rogier, yes. hanibal, a bit later, sorry. IMAM A.B, you can use custom sizes right now, just put your own numbers to width and height fields. If you need higher resolutions – I am deciding about this.
19.	IMAM A.B July 23rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm
	Thanks for the reply. Will be happy to buy before the year runs out so that I can benefit from the upgrade to 3.0. Again Vitaly, could you please include packaging shapes like “Ice Cream cup, bottle, paperpack, etc.” I’ll be so much happy if you could consider these in the next version 3.0 Thanks always.
20.	Vitaly [Box Shot 3D] [+] July 23rd, 2010 at 12:47 pm
	I usually add some shapes in every release and still have lot of them in the TODO list. If you want new shapes – please send some images to support e-mail, I’ll put them to the queue.
21.	John Post [+] August 3rd, 2010 at 10:01 pm
	Just bought Box Shot for Mac and what a great software package it is. Looking forward to the new features.
22.	JP [+] August 14th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
	Add me to the “happy campers” list! I just paid for activation of my mac version and was delighted to see that I will receive version 3 at no extra cost. Thank you guys for the best application available! PS: Any planning toward video rendering?
23.	Vitaly [Box Shot 3D] [+] August 15th, 2010 at 12:02 am
	JP, Box Shot 3D was never designed as a “video” renderer. It renders still images. However, as it allows scripting, it is not a big problem to render a sequence of frames with rotating shape. The upcoming third version of Box Shot 3D has a chapter about this in the User Manual.

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