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LoZ: Oracle of Seasons v2.0

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avatar Heavenly Spoon
Level 36 : Artisan Elf
Posted 04/05/12 11:07:11 am , last updated: 09/14/12 7:13:20 am
04/05/12
This is a texture pack based on arguable my favourite game: The Legend of Zelda, Oracle of Seasons, although there are some textures and sprites based on other Zelda games (mostly Oracle of Ages and Link's Awakening, as you'd expect). For the most part it's pretty bright and happy, but there are quite a few darker-than-usual blocks (most notably cobblestone and bricks).

The Seasons in this pack are biome-based, which means that all 4 seasons will appear in every world (kind of like how in the original game seasons are also location-based, rather than time-based). However, the biome colours (as well as other textures like water, lava, etc.) don't change automatically when changing your texture pack, which is why you'll need to download and use the MCPatcher HD Fix to make them work.

Enjoy!

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Game Version:Minecraft 1.3.1
Resolution:16x16
  • Armor
  • Art
  • Environment
  • GUI
  • Items
  • Misc
  • Mobs
  • Particles
  • Terrain
Tags:The, Legend, Zelda, Oracle, Seasons, Ages, Link, Links, Awakening, Nintendo, Gameboy, Color, Colour, Season, Themed, Environment, Terrain, Items, GUI, Art, Mobs, Armor, Misc, Particles
Credit:Nintendo and Capcom

Version 2.0 : 09/14/2012 7:13:20 am9/14/12

Hi everybody!


This is basically just an update to make sure everything's up to date with 1.3 and beyond. I haven't had much time to try everything, but I think most stuff is up to date now. There are also some minor changes, here's a list:
Pumpkins have a new texture to make it look more like the Pumpkin Head boss
- Textures for Carrots, Potatoes, Pumpkin Pie, Nether Stars, Emeralds, Rubies and so on.
- Also textures for blocks like Emerald Blocks, Emerald Ore, Command Block, Beacon, etc.
- New Menu designs, most notably for the creative menu, which is now rather woody.
Wither and his Skeletons now have a texture based on the Shadow Nightmares
- Other changes.


Screenshots:
Creative Menu
Beacon
Wither

Version 2.-1 : 04/26/2012 6:31:23 pm4/26/12

What naming conventions?
So yeah, I'm working on redoing almost everything worth redoing, which usually means I get to ++ the main version number. But since we're probably only half-way there, 2.0 seemed hardly fitting...
So what's new? Here's a handy little list which should be able to answer that question:
Biomes, as you may or may not know, the entire backend has been updated (or, if you'd ask me, "downgraded"), which meant I had to find a new distribution. Since every biome now has a single colour, and there's only a few foresty biomes, I've decided to use both Jungle and Swamp as seasonal biomes. Here's a list:
Summer: Jungle, Ocean and Mountains
Autumn: Forest and Desert,
Winter: Taiga and Tundra
Spring: Swamp and Plains
This distribution seems to be the best one so far, with high encounter rates for every seasons and all of them having at least 1 area with a decent amount of trees. Swamps do look a bit too happy now, but think of them as pleasant gardens, with the greener water caused by those nasty pollen or something.
I've also changed the colours a bit, so everything's a bit brighter and happier now.
Pines and Birches now have their own biome-based leaf colours, and about time too.
- All Leaves textures and the Tall Grass texture have been edited to add some more contrast, Pine leaves also got an updated texture for fancy graphics.
- New Sand texture, based on the desert sand, because the sand texture I had been using wasn't actually as prominent as I once thought.
Dirt is less yellow now, apparently I had been using the dirt from an animal compagnion area, which for some bizzare reason is quite yellow.
- Animated Torches (although I'm still working on those) and some other animated surprises.
- other surprises
I tried randomising the grass block surface so it would seem less dense (like in the game), but it didn't really have the desired effect. I also tried making things like sand and sandstone change colour based on the biome, but this also proved to be a bit of a failure. If all of this had worked this would've been a slightly more impressive update.

Screenshots:
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Spring
All the seasons

Version 1.11 minor update : 04/06/2012 7:46:07 pm4/06/12

+ The Chainmail armour has been changed to the Ball and Chain Trooper's armour.
+ The transparent parts of the Skeletons and Ghasts have been filled.
+ Most importantly, Zombie Pigmen have been changed into Subrosians!


Screenshots:
Chain Armour
Subrosian

For more information, check out the Minecraft Forums Thread.

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Comments : 62

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TheRocaN64
Level 1
New Miner
April 30, 2013, 12:05 am

I'd love to see an update. It shouldn't be that hard with only the crops and new redstone stuff to add.

DjLudacris
Level 35
Artisan Pirate
February 27, 2013, 10:49 pm

pls 1.4.7/1.5

susan1606
Level 1
New Explorer
January 5, 2013, 12:39 am

plz oh pweedy pweedy pwease update this 

WyPloS
Level 1
New Miner
November 18, 2012, 11:44 am

can u made in 1.4.4 ?

TheElessarchap
Level 4
Apprentice Explorer
October 12, 2012, 6:13 pm

MINECARFT

TheElessarchap
Level 4
Apprentice Explorer
October 12, 2012, 6:09 pm

ok

Link
Level 7
Apprentice Archer
August 9, 2012, 6:09 pm

Can you make this 1.3.1...
EDIT: Awesome!

tiodoro
Level 1
New Explorer
July 28, 2012, 7:18 am

hey im making the whole game in minecraft

iamninja28
Level 25
Expert Ninja
June 11, 2012, 7:24 pm

Oracle of seasons is the best Zelda game ever! Still play it in Gmaeboy color! Beautiful texture pack! Everything about it is awesome!

Paril
Super Moderator
Level 60
High Grandmaster Scapegoat
April 29, 2012, 10:03 am

Are these textures taken straight from a copyrighted game? If so, this submission is considered illegal...


-P

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 29, 2012, 12:06 pm

I'm usually one of those people who checks and double-checks every rule before ever posting anything, so this pack being illegal would surprise me. I just went and checked the rules again and can't seem to find anything about using copyrighted material. Am I missing something?

Having a rule like this in place would seem rather odd as well. Non-profit fan-made derivative works don't tend to be the cause of any legal issues, as this would entail a staggeringly high and very prohibitive cost on top of the negative publicity, which would probably more than offset any possible positive gains from such a lawsuit. I'm sure fan works are covered under quite a few fair use legislations as well, although my knowledge of copyright law isn't quite extensive enough to claim this with any degree of certainty.

That being said, I can't say everything here is an original creation, although most textures have been recoloured or in some way altered to better suit the Minecraft environment.

I must say I'm quite surprised, this is by no means the only Legend of Zelda based texture pack (or the most popular) and most of those feature at least some textures or images taken straight from one or more copyrighted games. I can't help but think a policy like this would only end up hurting this site in the long run, especially considering the popularity of the various video game based texture packs.

I don't receive any monetary compensation for this texture pack, the sole reason it's here is because I'd feel rather selfish using it exclusively for personal use. If you want to take it down, so be it, but I'm trying and failing to come up with anyone who could possibly benefit from this.


~Heavenly Spoon

Paril
Super Moderator
Level 60
High Grandmaster Scapegoat
April 29, 2012, 12:24 pm

In most cases it's not an issue, especially not with older games like this, but where it may cause issues is, for instance, somebody ripping textures from Skyrim and making a pack out of those. I suppose without any monetary gain it's not that big of a deal, but, regardless it is copyright infringement and it does fall under that. If we enforce one area of copyright (ie, if somebody was stealing a pack with original content that was made on PMC), we can't simply ignore the other side of copyright of taking textures that are copyrighted to corporations and video game developers.

There is a rule somewhere in the rule list about not using remixed/unoriginal content (content which is not yours, not copyrighted to you, etc). It's more or less common sense as well, but, it's in there somewhere - it may need to be made more clear, though. The rules change quite often.

It isn't the only pack, but I have deleted at least one for being a blatant "take textures from popular game and put into MC with minimal effort". It could also fall under unoriginality, but that's not my concern here.

We're discussing the best way to handle this among the site moderators, and will let you know how it turns out. 

-P

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 29, 2012, 1:35 pm

I can't imagine Skyrim textures being a terribly noticeable thing to turn into a texture pack, but considering recent events I don't blame you for being cautious around Bethesda.

If it's any help, I doubt "minimal effort" would apply here, since it's a 100% completed pack with quite a few custom or altered sprites. I've wasted quite a few hours of my life creating this pack (quite possibly more than I've actually spent playing Minecraft since creating this pack) and I've been working on this pack on and off since Beta 1.3 (I think), so It's hardly a quick and easy copy-paste job.

I'm not as familiar with the DMCA and other copyright legislations as I should be, but aren't sites which host public content considered "safe havens", where it's impossible to sue the host of a free public forum for content uploaded by its users (e.g. Youtube), forcing copyright holders to file a lawsuit against the content creator and not the public host?

I also think you€™ might be failing to make the distinction between using copyrighted material for other purposes (e.g. using textures from Zelda in Minecraft) and uploading content created by someone else and in a way stealing the credit and recognition the original creator deserves (e.g. downloading a texture pack and reuploading it).

Concerning this, I would urge you to update the rules if copyrighted materials presumably being used under fair use really are forbidden, as the closest rule I've been able to find is "Do not upload Texture packs that someone else created", which seems more like a rule against reuploading existing texture packs.

I'm probably wasting far too much time defending this texture pack, since not having to update both this and the Minecraft forums thread would probably give me a bit more free time at the small cost of not getting as much constructive criticism. But if this rule does come to pass It would mean the loss of quite a few very decent texture packs, which would be a shame for those who aren'€™t as capable of creating their own texture packs.


Again, do as you please. I am but a guest, but it would be nice to stick around, I quite like it here.

~Heavenly Spoon

Paril
Super Moderator
Level 60
High Grandmaster Scapegoat
April 29, 2012, 1:42 pm

Well, I meant any recent game in general. Skyrim is just a popular one off the top of my head.


The minimal effort thing wasn't directed at this pack - I can tell you've spent a lot of time on it, and that's why it wasn't deleted right away.


There's been a lot of controversy over what is "fair use" and what isn't, really. Down to its basic component there isn't much different from using textures from other texture packs compared to using textures from other games - the only difference, like I said, is they belong to other members of the Minecraft community. We would much rather be proactive as a team and take the initiative to prevent infringement than to simply let it all get uploaded and wait for the owners to send us DMCA takedowns and all sorts of legal issues (which does happen quite a bit - a lot of sites steal our content).


This site strives on original content, and that's what we like to see. This pack is original in its own in that it does have a lot of its own unique content & personal touches to it, so I don't think your pack is at any sort of risk at this point. What we're mostly trying to root out and stop are the who steal textures from other games simply to gain experience.


-P

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 29, 2012, 2:10 pm

I do think there's quite a difference, though. As an analogy, for an image uploading site It's like the difference between uploading an image you drew based on a video game (using copyrighted characters and concepts from that game) and uploading an image someone else drew. I can't help but think there are both legal and ethical differences between these 2 actions.

I can certainly empathise with your arguments and actions (I'm no stranger to moderating a substantial community), but you might be acting perhaps a bit too restrictive and risk-averse. Although for packs which do solely use textures ripped directly from a specific source I can understand taking action. Especially if people really are as obsessed with diamonds as they seem to be around here.

As an aside, apparently I've had this pack here for over 3 weeks already, I'm quite surprised it took this long for this discussion to take place. Has this recently been decided or am I only now attracting any kind of attention?

It's getting late, and I've probably been neglecting the paper I'm working on a bit too much by constantly checking for updates here, so this is probably my last reply for a while. Take care,
~Heavenly Spoon

Paril
Super Moderator
Level 60
High Grandmaster Scapegoat
April 29, 2012, 2:13 pm

There's a difference between creating a 3D model based on a copyrighted character, and ripping a 3D model from a game and using it: that's what I'm getting at. Your analogy is flawed in that in this case, it's the ripped aspect; the fact that it's the content, not the -idea-, that's being used.

If this pack was purely content that you created by hand, but was designed with Zelda in mind, then I'd have no qualms with it and that would have been the end of the discussion. My only worry is that you say it uses content ripped from one of the games.

As for the attention; it was just now that it was brought up. I had purged an account of tiny texture packs that used ripped content from a game (mind you he was also breaking a few other rules), and one of the other moderators brought this submission up, so I thought I'd ask about it.

-P

Shadow12
Level 3
Apprentice Skinner
September 14, 2012, 3:22 am

you know what guys i think you should leave him alone if he wants to make a zelda texture pack then let him its not illegal because you can never recreate the same textures as in the game coz its al pixelated in minecraft even if it is pixelated in tLoZ it will be completely different in minecraft because of the difference between the make up the graphics is completely different

Paril
Super Moderator
Level 60
High Grandmaster Scapegoat
September 14, 2012, 12:34 pm

You might want to check the dates - this was over 4 months ago. His submission wasn't deleted, so.. clearly we decided not to do anything about it :)


From what I could tell he does use textures directly from a specific LoZ game, so the "make up" isn't different, in some cases it's exactly the same, but I think it covers fair use in this case.


-P

jughu
Level 15
Journeyman Pokemon
April 21, 2012, 2:48 am

I CHALLENGE YOU TO MAKE THIS THE LEGEND OF ZELDA AND SKYWARD SWORD

 

DO YOU AGREE?

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 23, 2012, 2:13 pm

I'd love to, but I'm afraid I don't have access to the textures. It might be a bit harder than just throwing together sprites as well...

Creepington32
Level 12
Journeyman Lumberjack
April 19, 2012, 1:09 pm

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY ORE CHUNKS

You may want to fix up the biome shading. In areas like Taiga, Mountain and Snow, there is grey grass and grey tall grass. This may require extra work but, Why not make 4 texture packs for each season?

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 23, 2012, 2:11 pm

I'm not really a fan of changing texture packs, even if it's with a mod. And the whole appeal was meant to be that one pack would encompass all the different seasons. Don't forget that the seasons in OoS didn't act like seasons at all, but more like regional climates.


Winter grass is sort of grey in the original games, BTW. I'm working on what might end up being the 2.0 for this pack, though, which has more faithful season colours and gives them a new distribution (where, say, it still only snows in winter, but at least you'll get autumn forests as well). More on that soon, hopefully.

Creepington32
Level 12
Journeyman Lumberjack
April 24, 2012, 10:22 am

Well OK then. Which biomes are which seasons by the way?

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 24, 2012, 1:37 pm

I'd have to look it up, but I think desert and grass desert are autumn, the dense forests summer, less dense forests spring and tundra and taiga winter. The new biome distrubution I'm working on will be pretty similar but with some overlap, because I've noticed that since they redid the biomes I haven't been seeing as many red trees as I used to, which was sad because they looked quite nice...

Creepington32
Level 12
Journeyman Lumberjack
April 24, 2012, 1:53 pm

Do you know when the next version of the Texture Pack will come out?

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 26, 2012, 2:34 pm

Now.


See the update log for the new biome distribution, if you're interested.

Creepington32
Level 12
Journeyman Lumberjack
April 26, 2012, 4:27 pm

WOOOOOOOOO

SwedishDragon
Level 1
New Miner
April 13, 2012, 7:31 am

MissigNooooooooooooooooooo!....wait a minute...i have a diamond axe in my 6th inventory slot! Weeee! XD

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 12, 2012, 3:14 pm

I must say I'm quite humbled. 80 diamonds, 12000 views, of which more than 3/10ths lead to a download, all in the space of barely a week. I'm not that familiar with this place, but based on what I've seen this seems to be quit a nice pace. Thanks for the support! 

roflrofl
Level 3
Apprentice Architect
April 12, 2012, 9:37 am

waaah i will give you 20 diamonds (if i could)

leopard_paw2
Level 24
Expert Pixel Painter
April 11, 2012, 8:50 pm

Cool, DIAMOND!

LouisTheAztec
Level 1
New Miner
April 10, 2012, 2:16 pm

Great job!

verdecraze
Level 7
Apprentice Narwhal
April 10, 2012, 4:34 am

nice work, it seems there is another diamond in your pocket now.

CamDude87X
Level 5
Apprentice Archer
April 10, 2012, 1:10 am

Looks great I suggest that people get this!
Also look at darkcraft beta 1.1

blade6373
Level 1
New Explorer
April 9, 2012, 6:16 pm

ya know,these r the tex.pacs we use when we just need to chill. excellent work man!i'll b using this one

nufsed
Level 17
Journeyman Unicorn
April 9, 2012, 4:51 pm

Wonderful job, love this!

_Vertex_
Level 23
Expert Warrior
April 9, 2012, 4:35 pm

Love the pack but I hate you for making me feel old....

mrman928
Level 6
Apprentice Skinner
April 9, 2012, 2:31 pm

nice downloading because it is LoZ

swordman
Level 3
Apprentice Miner
April 8, 2012, 2:25 pm

I LOVE THIS TEXTURE PACK SO MUCH!!!!!

RoughSpirit
Level 1
New Explorer
April 8, 2012, 8:48 am

Picture 13 looks like the Missing No. :D

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 8, 2012, 8:59 am

Fun fact: It's because it is MissingNo. :D
I'm quite obsessed with the glitches in the original Pokemon games, so in a moment of boredom I decided to build myself a Missingno. It came in quite handy for screenshots for my Pokemon Red and Blue Pack as well (which I'm in the process of updating).

Sneil
Level 1
New Crafter
April 8, 2012, 7:32 am

^_^

Sneil
Level 1
New Crafter
April 8, 2012, 7:24 am

So geting this! DIAMONDS

BurningSkullz99
Level 36
Artisan Lava Rider
April 8, 2012, 5:28 am

When i first saw this the first thing i thought was 'L  To the I to the N to the K'

poopman55671
Level 10
Journeyman Toast
April 8, 2012, 6:35 am

lol smosh!! xD

Wood_Puncher
Level 10
Journeyman Engineer
April 8, 2012, 5:08 am

What the hell is this another zelda texture pack. Lord have mercy!

godking29
Level 14
Journeyman Cowboy
April 8, 2012, 4:16 am

epic i love this texture pack

JonasJonkovich
Level 8
Apprentice Architect
April 8, 2012, 2:51 am

^1 diamond

miffy2damax
Level 47
Master Narwhal
April 7, 2012, 9:00 am

Amazing pack! but may I suggest keeping a grid for chests/inventory? just helps organization a bit

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 7, 2012, 12:08 pm

I've tried, but it always ends up looking either out of place or downright ugly.
The way it is now is more faithful to games as well, which I guess is sort of the point of this pack.
I've been managing without a grid for quite a while now, so I don't think it's that big an issue anyway, but thanks for the suggestion.

miffy2damax
Level 47
Master Narwhal
April 7, 2012, 3:06 pm

Okay, I definatly understand if it dosent come out right, and you are right about sticking to the game, awesome pack though, I really like it =)

Gormidion
Level 1
New Explorer
April 7, 2012, 6:10 am

Zelda rules! So do you! This is bein' eoic! Diamond!

mineman99
Level 45
Master Soldier
April 6, 2012, 3:34 am

good work! diamond for you =D

wraith
Level 1
New Explorer
April 5, 2012, 11:30 am

nice texture pack

hutchy01
Level 1
New Miner
April 5, 2012, 9:49 am

Nice

HienkyakuX
Level 86
Elite Demolitionist
April 5, 2012, 8:45 am

I know it might take some time but considering the zelda theme this mod will go along this pack like a charm.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/962758-12320the-seasons-mod/

Nightrise
Level 1
New Explorer
April 5, 2012, 7:20 am

Very nice.

Facundosky
Level 18
Journeyman Pirate
April 5, 2012, 7:15 am

AWESOME! +1 diamond and favorite :D !!!

natenexus
Level 21
Expert Pirate
April 5, 2012, 7:15 am

Is the Nether made to look like Subrosia? that would be brilliant.

Heavenly Spoon
Level 36
Artisan Elf
April 5, 2012, 7:17 am

Yes it is.

natenexus
Level 21
Expert Pirate
April 5, 2012, 7:46 am

This is my new 2nd favorite pack.

Paranoid Anarchy
Level 39
Artisan Pyro
April 5, 2012, 7:11 am

That's great, real real good :)
Diamond :)

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