I have just read that Andi Smith (AJS, Andi06) is sadly no longer with us and that most likely his great site will close down at next renewal.
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Thanks Knotty for that link. JP.
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Not only was Andi06 a great contributor with a vast array of fine models (mostly listed under AJS), to his name, but an inventor too, who showering us with gifts of all sorts. Carriage Couplings, working traffic lights, and much much more besides. He engineered so many animated bits and pieces for our Trainz and Road traffic models that it's difficult to find a model today which does not use Andi's scripts or codes.
I like many others have a lot of his work and I would hate to lose it, or the functionality of those scripts and codes which animate the models and are in my opinion, irreplaceable, or have them rendered obsolete by changes in trainz builds.
Already we have the situation, in Tane where his contributions are included as built in but marked obsolete.
For an example his Daimler Bus, with working headlights wipers and steering. The scripts for these is, for the moment functioning fine, but scripts for the Route destination & number blinds, advertisements, operators name and insignia are faulty in part.
I think it would be a great disservice bordering on the disrespective, to allow Andi's work to pass into obscurity because of future trainz improvements in build, and or policy.
But of course there are necessary, and desirable safeguards on contributors works, but some of And's now need updating or modifying or will eventually be lost.
To make the required changes would be charitable work and is beyond my knowledge, but would it be contravening those safeguards if someone where to update these assets of Andi's which obviously would be made without the original authors permissions?
I just think it would be very sad to loose the AJS models.
My most grateful thanks Andi, you brought much pleasure to the whole of the trainz community.
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Our moderator Oknotsen has penned the following
Thanks Knotty for that link. JP.
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Not only was Andi06 a great contributor with a vast array of fine models (mostly listed under AJS), to his name, but an inventor too, who showering us with gifts of all sorts. Carriage Couplings, working traffic lights, and much much more besides. He engineered so many animated bits and pieces for our Trainz and Road traffic models that it's difficult to find a model today which does not use Andi's scripts or codes.
I like many others have a lot of his work and I would hate to lose it, or the functionality of those scripts and codes which animate the models and are in my opinion, irreplaceable, or have them rendered obsolete by changes in trainz builds.
Already we have the situation, in Tane where his contributions are included as built in but marked obsolete.
For an example his Daimler Bus, with working headlights wipers and steering. The scripts for these is, for the moment functioning fine, but scripts for the Route destination & number blinds, advertisements, operators name and insignia are faulty in part.
I think it would be a great disservice bordering on the disrespective, to allow Andi's work to pass into obscurity because of future trainz improvements in build, and or policy.
But of course there are necessary, and desirable safeguards on contributors works, but some of And's now need updating or modifying or will eventually be lost.
To make the required changes would be charitable work and is beyond my knowledge, but would it be contravening those safeguards if someone where to update these assets of Andi's which obviously would be made without the original authors permissions?
I just think it would be very sad to loose the AJS models.
My most grateful thanks Andi, you brought much pleasure to the whole of the trainz community.
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