Web can talk to Maya (Part I)

Web Browser Panel was removed from Maya 8 onwards. This is to prevent Maya Application from taking up too much memory resources and affecting the system performance. Hence, you will need to know how to setup your web browser (such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox) so that both the browser and MAYA can communicate between each other.

Instructions
	Step 1: Go to menu "Help", and choose "Browser Setup Assistant" to have Maya automatically configured your browser for you.
	Step 2: You can choose between "Install Automatically" and "Install Manually" to have Maya copied a plugin npmcpplugin.dll to your most preferred browser's plugin folder. Choose "Install Automatically" to allow Maya to do the copying.
	Step 3: Choose your preferred Browser to have the plugin installed. If you are using Internet Explorer, Maya will automatically register the COM object to allow all applications running on Windows to understand and handle MEL. Maya does such action by running the Register.bat, located in ExternalWebBrowser\Windows directory of Maya installed directory. If you are using browser such as Mozilla Firefox, you can click on the "Other Browser". You will then be prompted to select the plugin folder of that browser so that Maya can copy the npmcpplugin.dll to the selected plugin folder.
	Step 4: Upon completing the previous steps, you will be brought to a webpage which looks like the one shown on the left. To test whether the web page can talk to Maya, you can click on any of the icon buttons.
	Step 5: A window should pop up, prompting the user whether to allow for the incoming command to Maya commandport. Click on "Allow" button to allow only 1 code to be executed. Click on "Allow All" button to allow the command port to remain open for any codes to be sent and run in Maya.
Bravo! You have successfully configured your web browser to talk to Maya. If you still have problem making your Web Browser talk to Maya, please click here to setup your browser. 1 | 2
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