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1. New SculptShape button and NURBS support
2. Introducing the Maxproxy exporter: Copyright issues and program architecture
3. Using Maxproxy to export from Second Life
4. What's new in Maxport and 3ds Max
5. A proposal for determining texture export rights
6. ALL (printer friendly)

How to export

Start Maxproxy first, then start the viewer using the viewer’s –loginuri command line option to point the viewer to the url on which Maxproxy is listening. By default, Maxproxy listens for connections on the url “http://127.0.0.1:8080″. You can get a full list of Maxproxy’s command line options by typing

maxproxy.exe --help-export

on the command line.

In detail, here is what you need to do:

1. Create a new shortcut for starting the viewer.
   • Make a copy of the shortcut that you normally use to start the viewer.
   • Edit the properties of the new shortcut and change the target field to include the –loginuri option.

     The new target should look something like this, although yours could have additional options:

     "C:\Program Files\SecondLife\SecondLife.exe" --loginuri http://127.0.0.1:8080

2. Start Maxproxy
   • Open a command prompt window (Start > Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt).
   • Change the directory to the location of Maxproxy.
   • Start Maxproxy. To connect to the main grid in Second Life, you would type:

     maxproxy.exe --main

     To connect to a local instance of OpenSim, you would type:

     maxproxy.exe --proxy-remote-login-uri="http://127.0.0.1:9000"

     Maxproxy is ready to receive connections when it prints out the following message:

     proxy ready at http://127.0.0.1:8080/

3. Start the Second Life viewer using the shortcut you created in Step 1 and login as normal.

   Once you are in world, Maxproxy will chat to tell you that it is running.

4. You can move around in your current sim, but sim crossings and teleports might not work.

   Select the prims/linksets that you want to export. Use the normal prim selection mechanisms in the viewer.

5. Save the selected prims by typing the save command in chat. For example, type:

   /save myObject

   in chat to save the selected prims to a project on disk called “myObject”. Type /help in chat for a full list of available commands.

   The actual location of the saved project will be determined by the export directory. By default, projects are exported to “c:\prims\”. Thus, the location of myObject would be “c:\prims\myObject\”. You can change the export directory by specifying a different directory on the Maxproxy command line using the –export-dir option.

   For example, if you wanted to connect to the main grid and to export projects to the directory “c:\projects\”, you would start Maxproxy with this command:

   maxproxy.exe --main --export-dir="c:\projects"

   or

   maxproxy.exe --main --export-dir="c:\projects\\"

   IMPORTANT: the final backslash in the directory name should be omitted or doubled. If you put a single backslash at the end, it gets confused.

   DO NOT do this:

   maxproxy.exe --main --export-dir="c:\projects\"

Note: there is currently no graceful way to terminate Maxproxy. After you logout of the viewer, the only way to close Maxproxy is to type Control-C in the Command Prompt window.

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