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-==== Helping to expand the Wikia! ====+===== Helping to expand the Wikia! =====
  
 Hey you! Yes you, are you interested in expanding the Wikia? Hey you! Yes you, are you interested in expanding the Wikia?
  
-Yes? Great to hear, let's go over basics.+Yes? Great to hear!
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-==== Is there a reward for expanding Wikia? ==== 
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-Yes, yes there are rewards. We understand that your time is worth something.  
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-We have special vanity items prepared for our Wikia contributors, but you won't be able to get them for just making one small article, it's reward for those who stick with us to make Wikia a better and more friendly place for all players to learn something from.  
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-Expansive and big articles for bigger custom quests, or mysteries will be rewarded additional with PP or store items. 
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 ==== Contact the Staff ==== ==== Contact the Staff ====
  
-Easiest way to reach Antarcticpuppy who's responsible for the Wikia is either through direct contact on Discord, or making a ticket through our [Help] tab in our official Discord. Just tag him, and he'll hop in to contact you. +Ready to become part of the wiki team?
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-==== Making the content ==== +
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-Our Wikia is locked from contributing directly into the site, we understand some people prefer to get to the dirty work themselves, however it may lead to articles being deleted, misinformation spread or offensive content. So to help us expand Wikia you'll need to make a draft into google docs, or any other online media that allows us to open it (any trust worthy cloud services, that is) online and we will implement it, with credits. +
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-=== Sections === +
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-Make sure that all parts of article are understandable, different phases or important things like, way to, items needed, special preparations or important spots should be marked as such with proper headline. +
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-=== How to make screenshots === +
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-It's best that all screenshots are in same size, I recommend using Photopea as it's a free tool that is Photoshop based that allows you to set and crop images freely. +
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-=== Minimap === +
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-Often you'll be faced with road or path towards the quest or place you want to showcase, by pressing //**CONTROL+SHIFT+M**// you will open the minimap on full screen allowing you to have high quality map. What I also recommend is then zooming it in maximally, and then unzooming it X amount of times to showcase the area. +
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-Example: +
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-{{ https://imgur.com/oMsuS18.png }} +
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-It allows you to showcase the location and then, usually full map-screen might be too big, so importing it into the editing software of your choice (or Photopea for my choice), I used 300px:158px +
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-{{https://imgur.com/Lyg9CRZ.png }} {{ https://imgur.com/1Pg0kaw.png}} +
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-I used Blue circle to mark starting position, and white circle to mark next step position. Keeping same colour scheme and markers allows maps to be clearly understandable. Sometimes showing right path is also important, but it's still worth to keep the minimap clear and not scribble all over it. +
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-=== NPC === +
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-All conversation with NPCs should either include full text, or just parts important for the quest. +
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-  * Player: Hi +
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-  * [NPC_NAME]: Hello, how can I help? +
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-  * Player: Quest +
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-  * [NPC_NAME]: Well, I lost my wikia article, will you help me find it? +
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-  * Player: Yes +
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-  * [NPC_NAME]: Thank you! Come back to me, once you found it. +
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-   [NPC_NAME] Hi -> Quest -> Yes  +
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-==== Tutorials ==== +
-=== Making a minimap right size === +
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-Open the Photopea.com, do not click open new project [On first open, you might need to accept/decline Cookie managment] +
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-Go into your game, and by pressing **CTR+SHIFT+M** full screen your map, then position it at place you want to make screenshot of. Now take a screenshot of it.  +
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-Go back into photopea and CTR+V (Paste) it into this screen:  +
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-It should look like this, you might need to zoom-out to see whole screen. You zoom-out by holding ALT and spinning your wheel on your mouse. +
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-Next we want to select CROPPING tool, from the tool-belt on the left side of screen. +
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-Now with your crop selected, you'll see blue outline and lines on your image. If you hover your mouse over the white squares, you will be able to pull them with left-click and drag them down/up to make them match only the map part you want. Once you position your 'blue box' into area you want to include (or cut the areas you want to exclude) press enter to confirm. +
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-After all that, you should be left with perfectly cut-out full screen map.  +
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-Now, all we have to do is click FILE in the left corner of the webpage, and 'Export as' button, and we select PNG. +
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-Another window will pop-up, allowing us to change the name of the file, and change the export settings, such as Quality which we want to keep at 100% (to not lose the quality of the image). We will also want to UNCHECK the KEEP THE ASPECT RATIO button, it's the small chain between width and height. It'll allow us to select constant size, so our images are all the same. +
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-Once we click save, the file will land into our download folder (or your own folder you selected in browser), while making google docs (or any other cloud doc type), it would be preferable if you uploaded it to imgur or any other cloud storage, or even google drive so we can put it more easily into finished wikia article.  +
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-=== Adding markers in Photopea === +
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-Let's start where left off just before we exported our minimap. Now, on the left side on tool-belt, we RIGHT click the small square, it's vector shape tool. We change it into Ellipse. +
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-Next on the top, there will be a setting right near the shape icon, we want it to be set to SHAPE. It should be so by default, but we can click it to change it if it's not. We have settings we want to change, so our fill is NULL (crossed out white), and our Stroke which will be our border to be full colour (we can select any colour for now), after stroke colour we have number, that's the number that will influence our circle's width, set it to 10. +
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-After pressing on either FILL or STROKE, there will be a small menu, allowing us to change colour. It'll showcase current selected type, and below it on STROKE, currently selected colour (we can click it and change it) or below it last used colours. +
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-For start colour, I will select blue. +
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-Then, I will click OK, to accept the colour. Now we have the tool selected so we can move our mouse mouse over to the minimap screenshot we have, and by dragging left click from point A to point B (whichever point) we will draw an ellipse. It'll freehand the ellipse, but that's not what we want. We want a circle. So now, we will free hand one, but while holding SHIFT, it'll then use A and B to 'square up' our circle making it perfect. Try it few times, you might not get it perfect first time, so remember CTRL+Z allows you to "go back" and CTR+Y allows you to "go foward" with actions you've already made. Remember that, while keeping shift pressed (not letting it go between next circle) will place them at same layer, which we don't want). +
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-{{ https://imgur.com/WSkPSru.png }}+  * Create a ticket in the [Help] tab in our official Discord and you will be contacted. 
 +  * Our Wikia is locked from outside influence, so first your account must be approved.  
 +  * We understand some people prefer to get right to work, however it may lead to articles being deleted, misinformation spread or offensive content.
  
-So once you drawn your first perfect circle on start, we can actually COPY the existing layer, by righting it and selecting "Duplicate layer"+==== How to think when contributing to the Wiki ====
  
-{{ https://imgur.com/szd2KVD.png }}+  * The purpose of the wiki is to help our players and promote new content. 
 +  * Consider the age of quests and secrets when updating the wiki. For new content, slight hints and directions are ok but don't spoil it immediately. 
 +  * Something that has been out for a while and is likely known by most players shouldn’t be hidden from new players. 
 +  * Ask in the wiki team chat in Discord if you are uncertain about something.
  
-Now, on the right side in Layers, there'll be two of those overlapping on themselves. So, we select the Shape 1 Copy, and we swap our tool to Move Tool, first option in tool-belt. Which then, allows us to move our move into the shape we created, left click ON IT (on the circle border) and move it to the place we want to move our second circle to.+==== Spoilers ====
  
-{{ https://imgur.com/jS0gq5P.png }} +  * Some players want to explore the game without being spoiled. Put content that must be explored inside hidden sections using
  
-{{ https://imgur.com/wJHgwoG.png }}+  <hidden Spoiler> This is what a spoiler looks like. </hidden>.
  
-Now, all we have to do is go back into Ellipse tool, while still being currently on copy layer, and on the top change the colour of STROKE to white.  
  
-{{ https://imgur.com/PJodZfo.png }}+==== Sections ====
  
-Now, we just export it and... +  * Make sure that all parts of article are understandable 
 +  * Different phases or important things like items needed, special preparations or important spots should be marked as such with proper headline.
  
-{{ https://imgur.com/8w3ZuOG.png }}+==== Wiki Tutorials ====
  
-Obviously, it came out looking a bit small. We've showed huge map area in a small screenshot. Adjusting circle size would be good idea, we also don't really need to show such a huge piece of map AND mark starting position, so let's do some adjusting... and finished product from export:+[[wiki_map_directions|How to make map directions]]
  
-{{https://imgur.com/Comi8bt.png }} {{ https://imgur.com/nwpMivR.png}}+[[wiki_npc_conversations|NPC Conversations]]
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