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Exporting prims from SL Grid
This tutorial is aimed at linux users, but the information is relevant to windows users. This is a short tutorial explaining how to export prims from SL Grid using TestClient.exe from LibSecondlife.

'''Step 1. Download and install the client.'''

In order to build the client from source, you will require mono installed, obtain it from here. For stability use the release version (currently 0.5.0) available here. Uncompress the .tar.gz to your home folder, and then open up a console and navigate to the source folder.

cd 0.5.0

to compile the package, simply type :

nant

after some time you will have a built libsl package. The tool we need is the TestClient.exe, this is in the /bin folder..so..

cd bin

'''Step 2. Logging the client into a grid.'''

The client needs to be launched by mono. TestClient.exe needs to have some parameters. --first, --last, --pass, --loginuri "gridurl", --startpos "region/x/y/z" are most important. The client logs in to the SL Grid by default, so logging in to SL requires no --loginuri parameter. An example commandline for logging in to SL grid, would be as follows :

mono TestClient.exe --first joe --last blogs --pass mypassword --startpos "obscure/200/200/40"

this would log avatar 'joe bloggs' with password mypassword into SL Grid, to the region 'obscure' at 200,200,40..

mono TestClient.exe --first joe --last bloggs --pass mypassword --loginuri="http://osgrid.org:8002"

this would log the same named avatar into OSGrid, at it last known location.

'''Step 3. Exporting some prims.'''

After some connection messages you should get a prompt like this :

1 avatars online>

If you cant see the prompt, press return. If the prompt tells you 0 avatars online, then use the 'quit' command to leave the client and try again. Check closely all the parameters are correct. Next you will need to login another avatar using the regular graphical client and locate your bot. Once the bot is located, rez out your prims next to it. In order to export the prims we will need to know the UUID key of the linkset. The easiest way to do this is by placing a very short script into the linkset. Select the object and go to the contents tab (