Doug actually contacted me with this, which he's given me permission to reproduce:
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Hi Robin I have been checking the .agn files and going by their numbers they are slightly different when opened in notepad I don't know anything about doing agn so i don't know if this is of any significance or not.[/quote]
He's quite right, and this actually accounts for some of the issues I'm having with this. Normally if someone steals FS files, for example textures, they need to be exact copies, so you'd expect to be able to compare files and get an exact match. Autogen, however, if a bit different, in that it is possible to alter every autogen tile for an image but simply changing the 'properties', which has happened here.
Doug compared the first agn file in the download, I think by loading into Notepad. Here's an actual comparison of this tile in Annotator, which shows buildings in red and vegetation in green:
Here's the suspect tile:
Here's the Supercity tile:
So although these tiles don't match byte by byte, there is no doubt that they are derived from the same annotation.
As I said, this is a problem because anyone who didn't understand how the autogen annotation tool worked would find it hard to recognise these as the same, as the actual files don't match. However in the Annotator it appears as an exact duplicate.
Sorry, I keep going on about this, but this is a major headache for me, with I suspect at least 2,000 downloads so far, and this file is still available.
He's quite right, and this actually accounts for some of the issues I'm having with this. Normally if someone steals FS files, for example textures, they need to be exact copies, so you'd expect to be able to compare files and get an exact match. Autogen, however, if a bit different, in that it is possible to alter every autogen tile for an image but simply changing the 'properties', which has happened here.
Doug compared the first agn file in the download, I think by loading into Notepad. Here's an actual comparison of this tile in Annotator, which shows buildings in red and vegetation in green:
Here's the suspect tile:
Here's the Supercity tile:
So although these tiles don't match byte by byte, there is no doubt that they are derived from the same annotation.
As I said, this is a problem because anyone who didn't understand how the autogen annotation tool worked would find it hard to recognise these as the same, as the actual files don't match. However in the Annotator it appears as an exact duplicate.
Sorry, I keep going on about this, but this is a major headache for me, with I suspect at least 2,000 downloads so far, and this file is still available.
and go back to enjoying your boring life.
exactly how i pictured him as well......
Anyway, I'm glad your sticking about as "one of us" - very glad also that it looks like you'll carry on with your scenery stuff. 
