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    TheMCJarhead
    09/09/2024 7:24 pm
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    Lego doesn't really have lore other than its sets being themed off of concepts or brands. It is the same idea generally as Minecraft in that lego leaves it all in the hands of the player. Though the Lego movie more intimately understood the nature, limitations, and aesthetics of the lego medium itself before it approached the plot of the movie (stuff like the legos not being able to bend their arms, literally EVERYTHING including all the effects being made out of plastic legos, etc), which makes it a lot more charming and sets a good grounds for telling an original story if you can first firmly and convincingly ground it in the Lego universe. The Minecraft movie can have a chance, but that doesn't mean it's going to be good. Just from the trailer, it doesn't convince me that it's in Minecraft, it convinces me it's in an AI generated green screen room made by people who have never understood Minecraft in the first place, and just wanted a video game themed movie to cash in during cinema's current video game movie craze.
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    TheMCJarhead
    09/09/2024 7:00 pm
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    Some good sources here, though in that picture of the beach since it's mid afternoon the tide is a little higher than what it was during the time of landings. There would be a lot more open beach, something like 300 meters of open flat beach to the sea wall in some sectors. Generally, one block is considered to be 1 meter in Minecraft, so when scaling distances from a real life map to the game using the distance guides, you need to place 1 block for every meter measured.
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    TheMCJarhead
    09/09/2024 6:52 pm
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    If you have no access to Battlefield 2's Forgotten Hope 2 mod, this video breaks down the layout of Omaha beach in the game and what other depictions usually get wrong about it.

    https://youtu.be/Bp875ATM0ZE?si=Ar8Y771_iR-COhzv
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    TheMCJarhead
    09/09/2024 6:43 pm
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    It really does depend on what you're going for. There are 5 landing beaches and a ton of paratrooper landing sites involved, as well as other POI's like Point Du Hoc, Pegasus Bridge, Brecourt Manor, St Come Du Mont, St Mere Eglise, Carentan. If you're trying to make it historically accurate, there are tons of detailed maps, resources, photos, and videos to model your map off of online. It is one of the most documented military operations in history so there's no shortage of information. Games like Forgotten Hope 2, Squad 44, and I think Hell Let Loose (never played it so I can't say for sure) have pretty close recreations, FH2 in particular models all 5 beaches 1:1 scale in exact detail, including point du hoc and pegasus.



    Do no, I repeat, DO NOT, use Saving Private Ryan as a source, nor Company of Heroes, nor Medal of Honor Allied Assault or Call of Duty WW2. They are all based off of SPR, and that was filmed at the training beach used to train the Allied landing forces of Operation Overlord, Saving Private Ryan does not have an at all accurate layout of any section of Omaha.



    This is, of course, if you want your map to be accurate generally. There is nothing stopping you from taking creative liberty or design a map more around gameplay if you wanted to. In Minecraft you generally have to scale things down too because there's a limited render distance and entity render range (unless you use the right mods *cough cough* shameless fob online plug *cough cough*) so do keep that in mind when deciding on the layout.
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    TheMCJarhead
    09/09/2024 6:52 pm
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    If you have no access to Battlefield 2's Forgotten Hope 2 mod, this video breaks down the layout of Omaha beach in the game and what other depictions usually get wrong about it.

    https://youtu.be/Bp875ATM0ZE?si=Ar8Y771_iR-COhzv
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    TheMCJarhead
    09/08/2024 4:48 pm
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    How is there lore potential beyond "jack black does a funny for the mass market audience" in this movie. The movie doesn't even achieve Minecraft's aesthetic in the first place, so any lore implications it makes are going ot be null and void regardless. Minecraft is about being a blank slate so that individualized players essentially inherit their own lore and tell their own stories. Any story made by a corporate focus group is NEVER going to top how organic Minecraft really is in the hands of players.
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