Viewing Costumes outside of the game.

People have been wanting some kind of offline costume viewer/editor for years but the Devs will likely never provide one (at least not one that's a legal, non-Korean version at any rate - you old timers might remember what I'm talking about).

There are some tricky legal issues involved and NcSoft was actually involved in some lawsuits over it. Bottomline in order to control costumes the Devs have made things so the only way you can edit/view costumes is by being logged into the game. Short of screenshots anything "offline" will probably never happen at this point.

Was me that originally dug it up and one of the other EU guys (really sorry, I forget the name!) that found the registry key to change it to English language. Guru or one of the other sites that came up with things like the looping sound fixes then found a way to include all of the (at the time) current CoV costume pieces including some exclusively NPC sets. Trouble is it never developed past that point and I was actually asked by Bridger to remove my mini-site with the download and language switching guide due to legal reasons as you state. Shame really as it featured the first signs of being able to save costumes but it also included screenshot functionality and emotes/poses you could toggle which were both really nice features.

I think we eventually got from the EU side of NCSoft that the problem was they have sketchy legal ground on people being able to create characters for offline use. Specifically it boiled down to part of the legal settlement they'd had with a certain comic company including their policing player characters to avoid copyright infringement, the ability for players to take moderation out of the picture is what got their backs up, so the download was only ever available on the Korean site.

It is actually floating about still along with the language fix and costume patch if your Google-fu is strong, I won't go and outright post where or how but there's enough information here for people to do a little digging on their own, should they wish to find it.

What would be really nice is if those screenshot and pose functions made it back in to the game now that we have the ability to save out costume files. I'd still love to see an offline/no account needed character creator as it's a great way to promote the game; but I doubt it's high on the priority list and there would have to be that whole online checking part to bypass legal issues.