The credits still go to me, not to them. Copypasting my files, mix it up with a bunch of others and renaming it was exactly one of two things that made me creating this.
again, apologies for the ignorance. like i said, i wasn't around when your's was the thing, and i really don't know the beef between those that came after you. and like your way of thinking, i don't really plan on sharing my work without having a certain signature that they can never replace. i tried encrypting my grfs and to no avail, the server won't read encrypted files except their own and gepard blocks edited dll files so that's it, i have basically an open custom tga/act/spr/bmp and map textures which i am highly skeptical to share.
to give credit to where it is due, i appreciate your influence on the custom grf scene for that is the only thing i am able to experience now. also, i appreciate you replying despite the long downtime (correct me if i'm wrong) that is if it is really you who made the exiigrf. regardless, this goes out to that grf and it's creator.
for any moderators, kindly close this thread since i will be trying a different approach now. thanks guys for the input.