[agracier]

Is there an overview somewhere which explains the concept and what it is designed to do?

I d/l-ed the application several months ago and the d/l has a step-by-step instruction of how to use it. But I am not sure what it is supposed to achieve.

Auto-populating is meant to reduce the drudgery and repetitiveness of placing hundreds/thousands of objects on urban/village/factory textures when making a map. What it does is generate the objects in a predetermined pattern onto specified textures. You have to make your own pattern of objects to correspond to, for example, a village or and urban texture square.

The autopop then generates x number of object sets for each specific texture in any given map.

It saves a lot of time and effort and reduces mistakes in placement of objects as well.

The thing is though, that while I understand the purpose and principle, I still haven't figured out how to use the utility ... I wish I could figure it out, cause it would save hours and hours and hours of work in map making. This utility could really use a good and simple tutorial for dummies ... like me ... ha ha