I will be clear, I think Trainz is unfit to be a commercial product and should be put in the public domain. I understand the public domain means freeware or shareware, NOT open source as I stated previously. I apologize to any open source software developers who may have read this thread.
I hope this clarifies my argument to all.
Rob.
I think your wack. Trainz is by far the best open train simulator engine / tool I've seen. You can use tools like TransDEM, GMAX, Blender, and a bunch of other tools to make this any way you want it. If you have a high end computer and you spend the time, you can make this anything you want. If you have a sucky computer and don't want to spend any money, then your experience may be poor, but that does not mean the tool / Trainz is somehow defective.
It is a great commercial product and there is nothing like it that I have found. The new TANE base is way better than any iteration of Trainz I have seen in the past, and if they keep at it, it is going to blow away everything in the future, have you seen the 'Turf' stuff that they are going to add into the program?
I have developed some small software projects and used the Apache open source license to release it, so I gave it away, your comments make no sense in regards to 'it should be freeware or shareware'... BS, who's going to pay for it, you? Do you own a Fortune 500 company or something? I am ready to buy the next version of Trainz right now, and I would buy an upgrade every year if they offered it. It is far less than my AutoCAD, Visual Studio, MS Office, Visio, Domain Names, Hosting Fees, and other software development / licenses I keep buying.
When I see all the effort that so many content creators and script developers put out to make this product work, and NV3 and these creators put a price on their product, and you come along and say, you all should just give it all away... It makes me very sad, very sad.
(Just because this is what I think)