Hi guys,
If you are reading this, it means that you are one of the people who have shown an interest in the Trainz Native Interface concept and appear to be a reasonable candidate for testing the APIs during its initial development. <strike>This forum is private-access so that we can share pre-release downloads, ideas, source code, etc. without them becoming publicly available in the incomplete state.</strike>. Update: Forum now public access.
<strike>Everything shared here by N3V will be covered under an NDA. In short, it means that you may not discuss the topics covered here with other people until they become public knowledge. This is primarily so that N3V may share pre-release builds with you for testing and feedback purposes. Much of the relevant information discussed in this forum will already be public knowledge, however the builds may contain other features (unrelated to TNI) which N3V may not want publicly revealed at this time. In short, you should keep these builds separate from your regular Trainz usage, and address any questions regarding these builds on this TrainzNativeInterface forum and on no other forum or public venue. You should be receiving our standard NDAs through email relatively soon. If you find that the terms of the NDA are too restrictive, then just let me know and I'll remove you from this forum.</strike>
Update: TNI no longer under NDA.
You should have already ready about the Trainz Native Interface on our wiki, but if you have not then please read up on it now. I don't want to waste anybody's time, so if you feel after reading those pages that you are not able to work with the Trainz Native Interface APIs (whether due to lack of time or interest, due to lack of programming know-how, or because you feel that your ideas are prohibited by the restrictions mentioned on the wiki) then please let me know up-front and if your concerns seem justified, I'll remove your from this forum. I'm not expecting any particular results in any particular timeframe, but I am expecting that you'll give the API a try and that you're sufficiently self-motivated to make progress with minimal hand-holding from N3V.
You should also understand that we do not use this API internally, and that there are likely to be significant flaws or limitations in the pre-release builds. One of the purposes of this forum is to find problems with the API or the associated processes and fix them up before we open the API to a larger group. If you are not interested in problem-solving and brainstorming and simply want a final API for your own development purposes, this group may not be for you. TNI is a broad topic and we're going to start with the basics and slowly expose additional features based on demand and limited by internal development bandwidth.
With all of that out of the way, I hope that this forum will live up to your expectations and I look forward to working with you on this.
Chris
If you are reading this, it means that you are one of the people who have shown an interest in the Trainz Native Interface concept and appear to be a reasonable candidate for testing the APIs during its initial development. <strike>This forum is private-access so that we can share pre-release downloads, ideas, source code, etc. without them becoming publicly available in the incomplete state.</strike>. Update: Forum now public access.
<strike>Everything shared here by N3V will be covered under an NDA. In short, it means that you may not discuss the topics covered here with other people until they become public knowledge. This is primarily so that N3V may share pre-release builds with you for testing and feedback purposes. Much of the relevant information discussed in this forum will already be public knowledge, however the builds may contain other features (unrelated to TNI) which N3V may not want publicly revealed at this time. In short, you should keep these builds separate from your regular Trainz usage, and address any questions regarding these builds on this TrainzNativeInterface forum and on no other forum or public venue. You should be receiving our standard NDAs through email relatively soon. If you find that the terms of the NDA are too restrictive, then just let me know and I'll remove you from this forum.</strike>
Update: TNI no longer under NDA.
You should have already ready about the Trainz Native Interface on our wiki, but if you have not then please read up on it now. I don't want to waste anybody's time, so if you feel after reading those pages that you are not able to work with the Trainz Native Interface APIs (whether due to lack of time or interest, due to lack of programming know-how, or because you feel that your ideas are prohibited by the restrictions mentioned on the wiki) then please let me know up-front and if your concerns seem justified, I'll remove your from this forum. I'm not expecting any particular results in any particular timeframe, but I am expecting that you'll give the API a try and that you're sufficiently self-motivated to make progress with minimal hand-holding from N3V.
You should also understand that we do not use this API internally, and that there are likely to be significant flaws or limitations in the pre-release builds. One of the purposes of this forum is to find problems with the API or the associated processes and fix them up before we open the API to a larger group. If you are not interested in problem-solving and brainstorming and simply want a final API for your own development purposes, this group may not be for you. TNI is a broad topic and we're going to start with the basics and slowly expose additional features based on demand and limited by internal development bandwidth.
With all of that out of the way, I hope that this forum will live up to your expectations and I look forward to working with you on this.
Chris
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