YKTrain has been updated to version 1.2 a couple of days ago and can be found here, http://www.geocities.jp/yuuchankellyy/indexe.html but sadly turned into shareware($20) . It also isn't compatible with BVE 4.
I think that you can make commercial add-ons for a freeware game, not much wrong with that. But you are not allowed to modify files that come with the original program without at least a permission.
Hmm, I'm just wondering, because YKTRAIN use freewares routes to run.
That's like an shareware program which one work only with freewares, it's illegal, basically.
And anyway, how come an author can make profits from a freeware ?
What would happen if a route author ask players to buy it ? That's the same with YKTrain, i guess, because this program depend from BVE, at least from BVE files.
And that's pretty l*me to make profit from a from a freeware, even if YKTrain as a lot of potential.
That's would be a nightmare if BVE become a shareware, at least for me :-D.
Hello,
More generally, let us regret that BVE, so extraordinary, is not proposed under 'open source', allowing the best specialists amongst us (I am not one of them due to my reduced quantity of neurons) to propose some improvements, ensuring the future of BVE. For instance, the only real difference between BVE and MSTS is the possibility to see a train from the outside (to have 'mobile' crossing trains could be a cherry on the cake).
I am sure that nothing in the BVE design prevents from designing such an extension, as shown by YKTrain (I will not discuss here about shareware vs. freeware).
YK train is interesting but implies a lot of adaption to the routes (and probably the rolling stock). Isn't possible to imagine the same topic, more open? A sort of BRR?
François
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. It also isn't compatible with BVE 4.
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