BannedStory 4 Revived
BannedStory 4 Guides
Step-by-step guides for the things people actually make with BannedStory 4: dressed-up characters, animated poses, map scenes, comic panels, and frames for music videos.
If you have never opened the editor before, start with the illustrated User Guide: it builds a first character in seven steps and introduces the main panels. The guides below pick up where it stops, one task at a time.
Building and Customizing a Character
Skin tones, face and hair colors, which equipment replaces what, cash items, per-item recoloring, and the Random Generator for quick outfit ideas.
Animating Characters: Poses, Frames, and Expressions
How states, frames, and expressions work, how to preview motion on the canvas, and how to freeze or split an animation into separate layers.
Building Scenes with Maple Maps
Load a full map from Maple Maps, search thousands of locations, organize the map's layers, put characters in the right spot, and keep a big scene manageable.
Chat Balloons, Name Tags, Custom Faces, and Imported Pictures
Give characters a voice with chat balloons and name tags, build new expressions in the Face Mixer, add skill effects, and bring in your own JPG, PNG, or GIF pictures.
Exporting Your Work: Images, GIFs, Sprite Sheets, and Projects
Which File menu command to use for stills, animated GIFs, sprite sheets, Photoshop layers, and editable projects, plus how transparency, cropping, and file names work.
Making MapleStory Music Video Scenes
A shot-by-shot workflow for MapleStory music videos: planning, reusing your cast, exporting stills and animation frames, and matching game timing to video frames.
Opening Old BannedStory Projects (.bsproj)
Bring Flash-era .bsproj files back to life: Open versus Import, what carries over, what each compatibility warning means, and how to share a file that won't load.
FAQ and Troubleshooting
Quick answers about browsers and graphics errors, saving and privacy, keyboard shortcuts, undo, keeping the editor fast, and writing a bug report we can act on.
Looking for inspiration rather than instructions? The MapleStory Music Video Hall of Fame collects some of the best-loved fan videos from the BannedStory era.