I'm new to the game and the forums so please pardon me if this is the wrong place to post. The problem I'm facing is that I want to purchase a new face and eye colour from Big Headward in the Free Market. The main reason why I want a new face is that I dislike the way the default "smile" (F2) animation looks like. I noticed that some of the face change options change the F2 animation among others, and I'd like to swap over to one of those. However the current preview system doesn't let me see any of the various facial expressions related to the face. I can only view my character in a standing position with a neutral face. Right now, in order to achieve my goal, I'll have to repeatedly buy the different faces to test if the facial expressions are to my liking, and even then it's a trial and error process which involves real money, and I would rather not do this with real money. I'm willing to purchase the premium points, yes, but I'm not willing to gamble with it. I want to know what I'm buying before I buy it. I've explored a number of options to solve this problem myself but can't seem to get a good solution. I heard about two programs called BannedStory and maplestory.design, both which are cosmetic simulators for Maplestory in general. Unfortunately both are currently down. I managed to get my hands on an offline version of BannedStory 3, however many of the cosmetics available in MapleRoyals are not available within BannedStory 3, and the available face cosmetics are under completely different names as well, making it impossible to find the MapleRoyals equivalent (if it exists). I have contemplated the idea of using a 3rd party program I found on GitHub which can apparently extract .wz files somehow. If I use this on the MapleRoyals client, maybe I could be able to extract the cosmetics files and find the one that I want. Perhaps the files would be compatible with BannedStory. But I don't know if this is against the Rules. I haven't actually attempted anything of the sort yet, so please advise me on whether this is allowed or not. What can I do to solve this incredibly niche problem? Thank you. Off the top of my head, the simplest solution would be to sell a " Super VIP Coupon" in the Donor (Use) tab that allows the user to change their hairstyle and etc for an unlimited number of times for the next 24 hours, after which the coupon expires and the user will be stuck with whatever hairstyle and face they had at the end of the 24 hours. I'd be willing to pay a LARGE premium for this service, maybe up to 30-40 RP. I think this would solve my issue completely, and to a tech novice like me it doesn't appear to be extremely difficult to code. I would appreciate feedback on this suggestion though.
Thanks for the tip ilyssia! I checked out the site and found that it's a really good resource actually. Unfortunately it seems to have taken assets from the current GMS and not the version that Royals is running on, so a lot of the items aren't present, or at least they aren't showing up in the search. I think the set is a little different. I managed to sort-of find a solution - turns out the face patterns found in BannedStory3 are exactly the same as the regular (non-donor) face patterns in Royals. BannedStory3 lets me simulate most of the facial expressions that I'm looking for. So that's the workaround that I'm using for now. Still not a perfect solution as I don't have access to the (very many) face options in Big Headward's store. But it'll do for now.
