Shopwright – Storefront Generator for Blender
Shop windows, roller shutters, awnings and signs for any street
Shopwright builds complete, photoreal shop fronts inside Blender in one click. Pick one of 50 designs from the picture gallery—a Victorian grocer with a striped blind, a Parisian cafe with bistro tables, a New York bodega with a lightbox and a half-closed roller shutter, a Kyoto ramen shop with noren and paper lanterns, a frameless glass boutique or a Hong Kong neon front—then change anything from the sidebar and watch it rebuild live.
Every storefront is built the way real ones are: stall riser, display windows with mullions and transom lights, a door in a recessed lobby with splayed glass and a mosaic floor, pilasters with corbels, a fascia with the shop name and a moulded cornice. Type any shop name and it appears on the fascia as painted, raised, cut, channel or neon letters, on a lightbox, behind black glass or on a wooden kanban.
Behind the glass there is a finished, lit room: painted, two-tone, wood-panelled, tiled or brick walls with skirting, a dado rail, a ceiling and a doorway to the back room. The shelves are stocked with printed packaging, from cereal boxes, tea tins and cans to milk cartons, crisp tubes, wine and oil bottles, candles and titled book spines, so the front reads as a working shop in close-ups and street scenes alike. Shutters roll down to any height and can be covered in graffiti, and one click switches the shop between open, closed and night.
A new shop front in one click
Victorian grocers, Parisian cafes, New York bodegas, Japanese ramen bars and more, all built by the addon.
Finished shop interiors
Wood panelling, tiled dado, exposed brick or paint behind the glass, filled with books, groceries, cakes or fashion.
Your shop name, your sign
Type any name and pick a lightbox, neon, painted board, channel letters, black glass or raised letters.
Open, closed, night
Roll the shutters down to any height, add graffiti and switch the lights off in one click.
Styles
- Victorian and Georgian: grocers, chemists, bookshops, tea rooms, butchers, pubs and barbers
- Modern: frameless glass boutiques, concept stores, chains, coffee bars, pharmacies and galleries
- New York: corner bodegas, delis, laundromats, pizza, liquor and pawn shops, closed shops with graffiti
- Parisian: cafes, boulangeries, fromageries, patisseries, brasseries and boutiques
- Japanese: ramen, soba, izakaya, kissaten, konbini, sushi and machiya tea houses
- World: Art Deco jeweller, gelateria, trattoria, Hong Kong neon, florist, toy shop, tattoo parlour, kiosk and an abandoned shop
Features
- 50 designs in 6 styles, Surprise Me, Variation and Colors randomizers
- 5 window kinds (flat, bow, bay, frameless, bi-fold) with grids, upper panes, koshi lattice or security bars
- 7 door kinds, single or double, left, center, right or both ends, recessed lobbies
- 9 awnings: retractable, traditional, dome, quarter barrel, waterfall, Victorian blind, glass and metal canopies, Japanese eave; stripes, valances and printed valance text
- 8 fascia sign kinds with your own text, any Blender font or 6 hand-lettered styles
- Projecting signs: hanging boards, lightboxes, vertical neon blades, pharmacy cross, barber pole, banner
- Roller shutters, perforated shutters, grilles and scissor gates with graffiti and padlocks
- Window displays: grocery shelves, bakery stands, dress forms, books and gifts, with curtains, neon OPEN signs and window lettering
- Printed products: every box, can, jar, bottle, carton, bag and book spine carries its own label with brand names and barcodes (image textures, no mesh text)
- Wider product range: cereal and tea boxes, tea tins, cans, jars, gable-top cartons, crisp tubes, stand-up bags, wine and oil bottles in green, amber or clear glass, scented candles, printed shopping bags and gift boxes
- 6 interior wall finishes: painted, two-tone, wood panelling, tiled dado, exposed brick and painted brick, with skirting, dado rail, ceiling and a back-room doorway
- Street extras: lamps, lanterns, festoon lights, noren, produce stand, A-board, bistro tables, planters, AC unit and camera
- PBR materials from real CC0 scans: brick, limestone, marble, granite, travertine, tiles, cedar, oak, painted timber, brushed metal and canvas
- One mesh per shop with one material per part, ready for FBX and glTF export to game engines
- Copies made with Shift+D or Alt+D stay independent
Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.
Install in under a minute (Blender 4.2+)
- In Blender open Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions.
- Open the arrow menu at the top right and choose Install from Disk.
- Pick the downloaded zip. Do not unzip it.
Questions
Which Blender versions are supported?
Blender 4.2 and newer. It is tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.
Can I write my own shop name?
Yes. Type any name and an optional second line (a trade or a year). It is drawn with any Blender font or one of six hand-lettered styles, as painted, raised, cut, channel or neon letters, on a lightbox, black glass or a kanban board.
Does it work in EEVEE and for game engines?
Yes. Materials are Principled BSDF with real photo textures and look right in Cycles and EEVEE (window glass stays see-through in EEVEE too). Each storefront is a single mesh with UVs and one material per part, ready for FBX or glTF export.
Can I make whole streets?
Yes. Add as many storefronts as you like side by side; each keeps its own settings and materials, and Shift+D or Alt+D copies stay independent when you edit them.
Details
- Version
- 1.0.2
- Blender
- 4.2 or newer
- Tested on
- 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS
- Render engines
- Cycles, EEVEE
- Category
- Modeling
- Download
- 12.8 MB zip
- License
- GPL v3