Hello world! … and how to get started with realXtend
Posted by Jani on December 6, 2008 under howto | 
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Welcome to my first Blog entry! I intend to report my findings, take notes, collect tips and tricks as I continue to examine the realXtend platform. For those who don’t know already what realXtend is, you should check their web page before continuing!
Beneath the waves content from the 0.4 release
To get started with realXtend yourself, you need to do the following steps:
- download the server and install it: the latest release 0.4 seems to be a zip file - so extracting that should be good enough. If you use Vista, you need to right click the starte bat file and “run as admin”.
- download the viewer and install it: a decent installation is provided - only for Windows for now, but I read from the maioling lists that Kirstenlee Cinquetti is working on a mac and linux versions!
- Start the servers
- Start the viewer and connect to your server - and enjoy “Beneath the waves”
- If you wish to go and visit your friend’s world, you can create an avatar account at realXtend web site (or if you’re a pro, you can set up the avatar service at your own server)
If you need further instructions, you should check the rexdeveloper.org wiki. If you can’t get it to work you can put the question to the realXtend mailing list.
You can use the realXtend viewer to go to SecondLife or OpenLife as well.
My next blog post will concetrate around using Facegen to create a new head for you avatar - I already made Lucy Liu and Arnold Schwartzenegger faces, and they look like the real thing! Elvis was a harder one… 
