MapleWiki:Project Hair Styles
If you want to join this community as a hair style contributor, please add your name to this list. You can also add a note about what kind of contributions you can provide, and if you do them on request.
- Zanachriel - Creator and maintainer. Plays EMS and contributes with basic colors and VIP hair styles. Will keep an eye on this project's talk page for questions, suggestions or discussions.
This project is about making sure you know what you get when you spend your real-life money on Hair Styles. Changing a hair style in-game can affect the gaming experience quite negatively for some players, and with a limited wallet it might not be possible to change it a second time and hope for something better. By capturing every possible combination of looks with screenshots we hope players can make an educated investment in changing their in-game looks.
This project could be related to other projects about the Cash Shop, but as of yet there are none.
How to help
There are three different ways to help this project.
- If you have a lot of money to spend you could find out what types of hair you can get by using various random coupons (such as Royal and Experimental). The ideal situation would of course be if you could also provide MapleWiki with screenshots of each hair style in every possible color, but a simple text list is a lot better than nothing at all.
- If you are good with image editing you could take screenshots of all currently missing pictures. You can either take screenshots of your current hair style in all possible colors, or your current color in all possible hair styles (limited to VIP hair styles unless you've got a big wallet). Most basic colors (the ones you can pick upon character creation) will already be covered, so this will probably only be an option if you already have a special hair color or hair style.
- If you have no money and can't edit images you can still help out! By traveling around the Maple World and taking notes of all the possible hair styles and hair colors you can choose from by using a VIP ticket, you can save other players the time to travel everywhere. This is especially useful after each patch, to make sure the information already listed on MapleWiki is up-to-date.
Add a new picture
Find out what's missing
First of all, you need to find out what pictures are missing. Currently, there is a brief list at Talk:Hair Styles which may guide you in finding wanted hair style pictures. This list may eventually be moved to a more appropriate place. If the list is outdated you can find wanted pictures by looking at the hair styles' individual pages. Each hair style will automatically link to all colors available, which means there will be red links to the pictures that are missing.
Travel in-game
Once you have found some pictures you could contribute with, you need to find them in-game to take a screenshot. Please refer to the hair style article of where this hair style is available to you (there may be variations between MapleStory versions). Note that the easiest and cheapest hair styles to contribute with are the ones available through VIP tickets, as you can "browse" the alternatives without paying for them.
For VIP tickets, go to the main hair stylist of the town where the hair style is available (often called Hair Salon Owner or Lead Hair Stylist) and ask to see the available choices. Before taking any screenshots, please click the button below your character picture to see what the hair looks like without any equipment and make sure your cursor is not covering the character picture.
For hair styles not available through VIP tickets you will need to use a different strategy. To get pictures of the hair style in different colors you can talk to the VIP hair stylist, as above. However, for your current hair style combined with your current hair color you can talk to a lens expert instead, to take the picture with a different eye color. It is of course possible to unequip all your items and take a screenshot wherever you might be, but removing the background can become tedious if you're in a bad place.
Take the screenshot
To take a screenshot, use the Print Screen key on your keyboard, sometimes called PrtScr. The built-in screenshot function using Scroll Lock produces pictures with such a terrible quality that all MapleWiki screenshots should be created by using proper screenshots (Print Screen) and pasting into a picture editing software. Please crop the picture so that nothing remains but the hair and the character - see the example on the right. Save the file as a PNG (PNG-24 if available) and make sure the background is transparent.
If you don't understand these instructions, please ask for help on the talk page or search the internet for screenshot tutorials.
Upload to the wiki
Once your screenshot is cropped and saved as a picture containing only what's interesting, go to the hair style's individual page (such as Disheveled). Click the red link of the picture you want to upload. Make sure you click the correct link, so that you don't upload the green hair where the blue should be. Browse your computer for the file you want to upload. Leave the Destination filename as it is, or the hair style pages won't work as intended. As the summary, please enter [[Category:<Color> <Gender> Hair Color]] - for example [[Category:Green Female Hair Color]]. Make sure to capitalize each word (Female, not female) and to spell them correctly, as this will enable visitors to browse the color categories.
Now you know how to add new pictures to the Hair Style project so you can start contributing.
Add a new hair style
This section will contain information about how to add a hair style previously unknown to MapleWiki. It will explain how to format the new page and to what lists the new hair style should be added.
Verify version specific information
This section will contain information about how to verify version specific information. If the main page states a hair style was available in a certain city with a certain patch, somebody should verify that information at a later date to see if it is still valid in the current patch.
Maintenance
This section will contain information about what sort of wiki maintenance is necessary for this project, such as keeping an eye on the category structure. May or may not be made a subsection of the above #How to help section.
Related articles
- Hair Styles - The main page of all MapleStory hair styles.
- Category:Hair - The main category for all known hair styles, both for articles and pictures.
- Hair Salon - Information about how to change your hair style and where to go.
- Beauty Parlor - Similar to Hair Salon but with information about how to change your facial appearance instead.