"Art Déco" is a term that describes a detailed and luxurious style in architecture, interior design and various crafts. Art Déco first originated at the beginning of the 20th century in western Europe and found its peak in Paris in 1925, where an influental exposition took place: The "Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modernes".
In the 1930s Art Déco has spread widely across the world but found a quick ending with the beginning of the second world war, where more functional styles were preferred. However, the Style of Art Déco was somewhat kept alive in the United States where it still had some influence in the '50s.
It wasn't until the '60s that Art Déco got its actual name, based on the Paris exhibition, and efforts were made to preserve buildings of its era, that were still present. Despite its short prime Art Déco has never truly died and even in the 21st century new buildings are constructed in a "Neo Art Déco" movement, mimicking what is widely considered
the first international art style.
"Falkers' Art Deco" is my personal interpretation of this art style. I take a lot of reference from real world architecture and design, and try to bring it in a form that fits into the game. I also take some reference from fictional designs, especially the Bioshock series, and sometimes develop my own ideas based on these references.
Thank you for checking out my pack. Feel free to comment and give your opinion on this work in progress.
This pack heavily relies on CTM and other non-vanilla features, and therefore requires Optifine to run properly.
This Resource Pack may be used to alter the look and feel of Minecraft. (yes, this technically has to be stated)
Screenshots, Videos, Streams and other forms of recording with this pack active may be published on any platform.
Assets of this pack may be customised and repurposed for personal use only.
This pack or assets of this pack, edited or not, may not be published anywhere, unless I give my personal consent.
Legacy versions of this pack are handled under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License instead.
Legacy versions are marked as Alpha on Curseforge.
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They just changed the format of that image. You should be able to take what you already had and slot it into the new version easily enough.
And if it isn't easy, then I suggest letting us know what specifically you need help with.
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I released it. Sorry about that. The spam filter is a bit twitch around new users and non-English languages. You just happened to hit both of its sensitive spots.
Enjoy the Forum!
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Which is still technically illegal, by the way. At least to the best of my definitely not a lawyer and definitely not giving legal advice understanding of the issue.
The issue isn't one of copyright and legality, but of public perception. Most companies are smart enough to know what if they start bringing down the might of a legal department against fans who are just having fun and not really challenging the company's rights that they'd get HUGE amount of backlash from it.
For the less wholesome art, that can quickly become a matter of accidentally evoking the Streisand effect. Particularly for more family-friendly brands it's generally smarter to just ignore that it exists rather than call loads of attention to it by bringing about a very public lawsuit and having that associated with the brand. Generally the only time companies are willing to risk this is when the not-child-friendly fan art gets higher search results than the company's own website.
As always, this are more complicated than just what the law says. Regardless, it's really not likely that anyone is going to get in trouble over a fan work from which no money is being made.
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I AM NOT A LAWYER AND NOTHING I POST HERE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED LEGAL ADVICE
That said, the answer to this is both simple and complicated at the same time. First, you cannot copyright a "style" period. So in that regards you're safe.
HOWEVER!!! This does not mean that unique elements of Minecraft can be used willy nilly. Minecraft's artwork is still owned by them, which includes the individual textures and creature designs. Some of this is down to copyright, and some of it is down to trademark. So for example if you want a creeper standing around, you're very likely still going to get hit with legal action unless you can make yours distinct enough that it's not going to be confused for belonging to Mojang/Microsoft.
This goes with a lot of other "Minecraft" design bits. You can copy the aesthetic to a point, but the point at which any random person familiar with MC looks at it and immediately thinks "That's a Minecraft cafe" is the point where you're probably in trouble for violating trademark or trade dress laws. Basically you need to make sure that a reasonable person won't confuse your brand with Minecraft's even if they share a similar aesthetic.
The alternative to this is to actually get Mojang/Microsoft's permission to make a themed cafe. This sort of thing happens in Japan, though I doubt they're as keen on it elsewhere in the world. Also, expect to pay a HUGE licensing fee to go this route. I don't know what it costs to license the Minecraft IP but considering that it's still one of the most valuable properties in the entire world my guess is that it's in the neighborhood of "way too darn much".
If you're considering doing this, please please PLEASE hire a lawyer to review your designs BEFORE putting them in place. While Mojang is pretty chill, they are owned by Microsoft who are notoriously litigious. You do NOT want to stare down M$'s legal division. So if you're putting money into this idea, your second stop (after hiring a designer to get the look you want on paper) would be to hire a qualified lawyer to make sure that what you're doing doesn't violate copyright, trademark, or trade dress of what you're imitating.
I hope that helps you.
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Why not find out for yourself?
Here, let me Google that for you.
No, but you'd still get to see images of real, honest to goodness, flesh and blood dinosaurs. I don't care if I can understand the commentary, dinosaurs are AWESOME!
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That the program you're using has a bug in it?
This is why I strongly urge people to understand the basics of pack creation even if they decide to use shortcut programs. Said programs invariably have problems or fall out of date at some point, so it's important to know how to just dig into the files themselves and fix things. And it really is just a matter of opening it with a solid archive manager and renaming a few files. Yes, it'll take a while to figure out if it's your first time, but at least in default most everything is pretty logically named so unless your program did something really odd it shouldn't take too long to figure out.
Best wishes on getting it fixed.
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Yes.
Consider for a moment that you're never seeing the entirety of what goes on behind the scenes. Particularly for Minecraft, a 30 minute video can frequently take hours if not days of building, designing, re-building, resource gathering, and testing redstone to complete. Even channels that do nothing but PvP or mini-games can spend ten times the video's length playing through loads of boring matches until they play one that's interesting enough that the footage will contribute to a watchable video.
Then there's the video editing. If someone puts thought into their editing, it can easily take four or five times longer than the video itself to edit all of the collected footage down and make it into something with a concise and cohesive narrative. After that is managing audio, selecting music tracks, making sure any dialogue matches up, re-watching the entire thing to make sure the game audio didn't de-sync, and so forth. For channels that focus a lot on presentation, this can be even longer.
On top of that there's all of the other things that go into being a successful Youtuber. Reviewing analytics, creating thumbnails (often multiple for each video since doing so boosts analytics), managing social media, making sure that Youtube hasn't done anything stupid with their account, and so on and so forth. Those channels are businesses that are often run entirely by a single person or a very small team of people. The later case also means going to production meetings and managing things like employee benefits, payroll, and so forth can also make demands on a Youtuber's time.
Most of the Youtubers that do it professionally work 12 hour days to bring you those little 30 minute videos. That's not a joke, that's the hard reality of working in a high-pressure video production environment. So when I say that they don't have time to be forum admins, I mean that they literally DO NOT have the time! Not if they want to eat and sleep anyway.
I hope you found that illuminating.
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Do a bunch of Polish Youtubers WANT to be admins of a forum? If so, why haven't they done so already? There's really nothing stopping them.
Being a Youtuber takes a LOT of time, as does being a forum admin. Asking someone do double up and do two full-time jobs just seems like a recipe for burnout. I wouldn't wish that workload on anyone.
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Honestly, I'm for anything that makes villagers feel more like proper NPCs and less like annoyingly mobile vending machines.
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Why would you need to? Just editing the pack.mcmeta won't really change much, and can even potentially break a pack if you do something wrong.
If you're sure you know what you're doing, my best advice would be to first extract it from the pack, then edit it in Notepad++ (It's freeware), and then put it back into the pack after it's edited.
I hope that helps.