Everybody.
Victrainz like so many Trainzers mourn the loss of Bill Fock. Bill was a great friend and member of VicTrainz, and in a few years created many fine assets for us all to enjoy in Trainz.
Recently a member of Trainz has upgraded some of Bill's engines, but instead of uploading it as an upgrade for use with Trainz 10 or 12, chose to upload it under his own name. Trainz has in place a means of upgrading assets for use in later versions, which preserves the original KUIDS.
VicTrainz has made contact with Bills son Andrew who (we presume) now owns all rights, including copyrights to Bills engines. We understand that all agreements that may have been made with Bill when he was alive, should be shown to Andrew, and I suspect approved to continue, or not as will be his right to decide.
VicTrainz members were working closely with Bill before his passing, and we have deferred any uploads until we can get Andrews permission to continue.
We do need to give Andrew time to sort out Bills affairs, and we decided not to make any public announcements till Andrew returned from overseas and had spoken with us.
Unfortunately the recent uploads of Bills 400 Class Garratt and the 59 Class (shared construction with Ad60200) has thrown a spanner in the works.
The announcement we would have liked to have made, would have gone something along these lines.
Bill Fock joined a group of people in Melbourne who met regularly and formed a Trainz Group called VicTrainz. Bill was active in forming this group, and the group helped Bill to gain the necessary skills to build his fine models. The group did most of the beta testing and prepared a lot of the photographs and research for each project.
VicTrainz would like to do two things. The first would be to take control of Bills mesh's and undertake to keep these models upgraded so that they operate into all future versions of Trainz, where ever this is at all possible.
The input for this upgrading would be available to all trainz members whether they are members of VicTrainz or not.
Our memorial to Bill would be to keep Bills unique Kuid and name open and to upload all modifications under Bills existing Kuid.
The name will come up in the DLS folders time and time again. We believe this will be a fitting memorial to a great man, a good friend and a generous Trainz builder for all of us.
So please refrain from uploading Bills stuff under your own name. It is not right, and perhaps even illegal until the family decides what actions are to be taken. Remember no matter what agreements you think you might have, they must now be renewed with the new owners of Bills Property, and that at the moment is Bills legal Executors.
Thank you for listening
Rod Young
for VicTrainz
Victrainz like so many Trainzers mourn the loss of Bill Fock. Bill was a great friend and member of VicTrainz, and in a few years created many fine assets for us all to enjoy in Trainz.
Recently a member of Trainz has upgraded some of Bill's engines, but instead of uploading it as an upgrade for use with Trainz 10 or 12, chose to upload it under his own name. Trainz has in place a means of upgrading assets for use in later versions, which preserves the original KUIDS.
VicTrainz has made contact with Bills son Andrew who (we presume) now owns all rights, including copyrights to Bills engines. We understand that all agreements that may have been made with Bill when he was alive, should be shown to Andrew, and I suspect approved to continue, or not as will be his right to decide.
VicTrainz members were working closely with Bill before his passing, and we have deferred any uploads until we can get Andrews permission to continue.
We do need to give Andrew time to sort out Bills affairs, and we decided not to make any public announcements till Andrew returned from overseas and had spoken with us.
Unfortunately the recent uploads of Bills 400 Class Garratt and the 59 Class (shared construction with Ad60200) has thrown a spanner in the works.
The announcement we would have liked to have made, would have gone something along these lines.
Bill Fock joined a group of people in Melbourne who met regularly and formed a Trainz Group called VicTrainz. Bill was active in forming this group, and the group helped Bill to gain the necessary skills to build his fine models. The group did most of the beta testing and prepared a lot of the photographs and research for each project.
VicTrainz would like to do two things. The first would be to take control of Bills mesh's and undertake to keep these models upgraded so that they operate into all future versions of Trainz, where ever this is at all possible.
The input for this upgrading would be available to all trainz members whether they are members of VicTrainz or not.
Our memorial to Bill would be to keep Bills unique Kuid and name open and to upload all modifications under Bills existing Kuid.
The name will come up in the DLS folders time and time again. We believe this will be a fitting memorial to a great man, a good friend and a generous Trainz builder for all of us.
So please refrain from uploading Bills stuff under your own name. It is not right, and perhaps even illegal until the family decides what actions are to be taken. Remember no matter what agreements you think you might have, they must now be renewed with the new owners of Bills Property, and that at the moment is Bills legal Executors.
Thank you for listening
Rod Young
for VicTrainz
