The Void Rains Upon Her Heart Wiki:Contribution Guidelines

This page contains information, tips, and best practices for making contributions to and editing the Void Rains Upon Her Heart wiki. Check the discussion page to see what still needs to be done.

Guidelines

• Entries should be written in professional American English, with as proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation as possible.
  • This is a wiki, not a blog or guide, and ideally it should eventually look like one person wrote all of the content.
• Avoid overly casual language, subjective statements, and "I" or "you" statements
  • Unacceptable: "Once you fill the bar in the Garden, you fight Nova, who's a really hard boss" -
  • Acceptable: "Upon accepting the Garden's blessing, the player will fight Nova. ... Nova is considered to be a difficult boss due to her many phases."
    • Consider why the subjective statement may or may not be true
• Stick to facts available in-game; avoid pure conjecture, speculation, or headcanon
  • Unacceptable: "Blue Veyeral betrays Defect" - unconfirmed as of v8.0
  • Acceptable: "Vitrea has romantic feelings for Glacia" - confirmed in-game in the Vitrea's Backrooms event
• Avoid information bloat. Consider what would actually be useful for you, personally, if you came to the wiki knowing nothing about this game
• When editing a page, explain the reason for your edit in the box provided, and check "Minor Edit" for things like typo or grammar fixes
• Do not engage in "edit wars" (constantly removing another person's edit or re-adding a deleted edit). If you have an issue, use the Talk or Discussion pages
• Do not intentionally present incorrect information or "vandalize" pages (it genuinely isn't funny to anyone and you'll get your permissions revoked)
• Do not promote piracy or illegal activity in any form
• Do not upload or share anything "data-mined" that is not already visible in the game itself
• Do not harass any wiki contributor, wiki.gg staff, or Veyerals themselves (Veyerals is not directly involved in this wiki in any way, shape, or form)

Basic Formatting

Boss pages should be formatted using the boss page template for the sake of consistency, adding and removing fields as needed.

The "Help" section above the visual editor explains some basic formatting, and clicking on "Advanced" will allow you to insert some items automatically. Some extra information is below.

Put [[Category:CategoryName]] at the end of an article to list the article in that category.

To link a category directly the same way you'd link a page, you must add a : (colon) at the beginning, or it won't work. i.e. [[:Category:Monsters]]

{{Main|Monsters}} makes a "Main article:" redirect link.

To redirect from a page itself, have the only content on the page be:

#REDIRECT [[Page to redirect to]]
[[Category:Redirects]]

Anything in curly brackets ({{ }}) is calling something known as a "Template", a means of "transcluding" or reproducing content made on one page onto another. This is used for things like infoboxes and stub notices, to avoid having to retype all of the content on the template page, and to ensure that changes made to the template's text or code are automatically reflected in every place where that template is used. More of these can be found in Category:Templates, but the most-often used ones are the damage type templates (i.e. Radiant), which places the type icon and colors the text automatically These are just {{Radiant}} {{Burn}} {{Toxic}}, etc.

Finding Information

Most detailed information can be found in-game after radiating a monster or a gift. However, the user Sabima has made a fantastic resource in the form of a spreadsheet listing all monsters, events, gifts, and unlockables, down to nitty-gritty mechanical details. Ideally, all of this information will eventually be on the wiki--if you're looking for a place to start, try moving over some of that information.

Sprites

Sprites can be extracted from the game directly using the Undertale Mod Tool

• Install the latest (non-bleeding edge, you may have to scroll to find it) version of the tool from the Github page above
• Extract the ZIP file's contents somewhere on your computer
• Run UndertaleModTool.exe (you may need to force your computer to run it the first time)
• Go to File > Open and navigate to the game's directory
  • If you don't know where this is, right-click the game on Steam and select "Browse Local Files", this will give you the folder's location
• Open the file labeled data.win
  • If the program throws an error, try going to File > Settings > Update app to latest commit and try again
• Double click any listing under "Sprites" to open it on the right panel. This will display all the parts of a sprite or frames of an animation, which you can then export individually or in bulk using the button under the individual layers.
  • "Embedded Textures" and "Texture Page Items" may also be useful to you; while these are unlabeled, they contain various background and UI elements, as well as grids of all gift, dream, and portrait art

When scaling sprites, use "Nearest Neighbor" scaling to prevent the sprites from becoming blurry. You can also use tools like this website (or this program to scale in bulk.)

In-game screenshots are also acceptable, as long as they are of a consistent quality and size.

Veyerals has uploaded a ZIP file of all of the character portraits, which removes the necessity for assembling them yourself. This is in the Discord server, pinned in the spoiler channel.

When uploading any file taken out of the game itself, place the following on its page:

== Licensing ==
{{License|game}}

Miscellaneous/Style

• Use the game's sorting methods wherever possible (for categories of Monsters, Gifts, Dreams, etc)
• All characters in the game are female, and should be referred to as she/her unless in a group
• Use "Greeny" and "Sunshine" to refer to the Twins until such time as their names in the game data are actually mentioned in-game
• "Characters" is defined as "anyone who has dialogue outside of a battle"
  • For instance, Scrambla is in the "character" category, while Chroma is not
• "Monsters" is defined as all bosses in general
  • Both Scrambla and Chroma are in this category
• Categories should be listed from most specific to most broad
  • Amethyst has the categories "Simulacra", "Veyeral", and "Monster", in that order
• Link items only once
  • If the page for the "Veyerals" monster family is hotlinked in the article summary, it should not be hotlinked every other time "Veyerals" is mentioned
• Edits and code can always be previewed, either on the page itself, or on your User or Sandbox pages
• Feel free to contact PaperLaur either on their User page or on Discord (same username)
  • If DMing me on Discord, please lead with your question--if your message just says "hi", I'll probably assume it's spam and delete it!