All:
Just thought I would pass on this update to everyone.
I was able to talk to Ben's wife this morning and passed on all your condolences as best I could. I also told her to take a look at the Funeral Home Guestbook and see the out pouring of all your comments on that Guest Book.
She was not aware of the true extent of Ben's contributions so I provided that information to her, and she was rather surprised when I told her that Ben had made over 7000+ contributions to Trainz over the years.
She expressed her thanks to everyone of you for your thoughts and well wishes during her time of grief.
As a footnote she very much does not want to see all Ben's work lost to the Trainz community, as she knows how important this hobby was to him, so we are trying to work out some type of arrangement so that all 7,000 Gmax meshes, with all the supporting files (ie; textures, scripts, etc), are transferred through me to N3V, if that is possible (probably by physical shipment of the backup harddrive he used to store his project files on). By transferring the meshes and related project files to N3V they will allow for the continual updating of his content by either N3V or others who might want to update, revise or expand on what he did. If N3V is not interested in acquiring Ben's Gmax project files for all his content items (at no cost), then we will work something else out. I really want to see his work continue on in the hobby, and I am sure he would as well, and we had discussed that in the past. BTW we are talking about many hundreds of Gigabytes of files here. The ball is in his wife's court now on this issue, which is low priority compared to everything else she has to contend with of course, so it may be a while, if ever. As she is not computer literate I have offered to help her in anyway I can on this and other issues......
Bob
Just thought I would pass on this update to everyone.
I was able to talk to Ben's wife this morning and passed on all your condolences as best I could. I also told her to take a look at the Funeral Home Guestbook and see the out pouring of all your comments on that Guest Book.
She was not aware of the true extent of Ben's contributions so I provided that information to her, and she was rather surprised when I told her that Ben had made over 7000+ contributions to Trainz over the years.
She expressed her thanks to everyone of you for your thoughts and well wishes during her time of grief.
As a footnote she very much does not want to see all Ben's work lost to the Trainz community, as she knows how important this hobby was to him, so we are trying to work out some type of arrangement so that all 7,000 Gmax meshes, with all the supporting files (ie; textures, scripts, etc), are transferred through me to N3V, if that is possible (probably by physical shipment of the backup harddrive he used to store his project files on). By transferring the meshes and related project files to N3V they will allow for the continual updating of his content by either N3V or others who might want to update, revise or expand on what he did. If N3V is not interested in acquiring Ben's Gmax project files for all his content items (at no cost), then we will work something else out. I really want to see his work continue on in the hobby, and I am sure he would as well, and we had discussed that in the past. BTW we are talking about many hundreds of Gigabytes of files here. The ball is in his wife's court now on this issue, which is low priority compared to everything else she has to contend with of course, so it may be a while, if ever. As she is not computer literate I have offered to help her in anyway I can on this and other issues......
Bob