Krislyz
I'm Krislyz! I translate and proofread Hebrew for VRChat, and I do the same for the pages on this wiki. My username is identical on almost every social platform, so if you've found it somewhere else, it's most likely me.
Translating VRChat
If you've played VRChat in Hebrew, you've read my work. On VRChat's Crowdin project I've proofread 45,000+ words and translated 15,000+ myself. That makes me first in Hebrew approvals and second in Hebrew translations of all time. A translation only shows up in the app once someone approves it, and for Hebrew, more of those approvals are mine than anyone else's. Most of the text is short UI: buttons, warnings, tooltips, error messages. A four-word button looks easy until it has to be correct, natural, and worded the same way as everywhere else the app says that thing.
Consistency is where I spend most of my time. Hebrew makes you choose, in every instruction, who you're talking to: "click" and "make sure" can come out masculine, feminine, plural or as an infinitive, and a translation that switches between them from one screen to the next feels careless even when each line is fine on its own. So I check whole files for it, along with the terminology, the words that stay in English, and how names and usernames get written. Placeholders get the same treatment: they stay exactly as they are, and I move them to wherever they sound most natural in the Hebrew sentence.
Feedback makes the work better. I listen to what other contributors say about a translation and work with Foofik, the project's other Hebrew proofreader, to get each string right. When Hebrew's right-to-left order breaks something in the app, we collect the cases and pass them to VRChat's team.
VizVid
If you've ever used VizVid (VVMW), the video player found in VRChat worlds, in Hebrew, I'm the one who translated it. The first pull request with the Hebrew language file was merged, and the translation is mine from start to finish.
This wiki
I translate this wiki's pages into Hebrew and proofread them too. Right now I'm the only one doing either, so every Hebrew page here has been through my hands twice, once to write it and once to check it.
Communities
I founded HebrewFy, a community for Hebrew speakers who play games together. It runs events, from game nights to karaoke and tournaments, and most of them happen in VRChat. It's still active. I also founded VRChat Israel, which I left some time ago.
Tools
I make a few tools for VRChat creators. KAT (Krislyz's Avatar Tools) is a Blender add-on with Unity utilities for avatars and worlds. It cleans up imported models, sets up visemes and blinking, adds face tracking shapes and refits outfits. It's still in development, so try it on a throwaway project first. The [1]VRC Banner Designer makes VRChat banners.
Feedback
I'd like to hear what I got wrong: a Hebrew string that reads badly, a bug in KAT, a decision on this wiki you disagree with. Reach me through my contact methods available in krislyz.com or any of my other public socials.
