Adding Sprites Into Your Server

[Sir Bananas]

I've seen soooo many people ask this question, and SOOOO many more people giving the wrong anwsers, and ruining a spriters career :I
So i decided to make everyone's life easier. So here is my .spr and .dat editing tutorial!

What is .dat and .spr?
The .dat and .spr are the files that hold the sprites of Tibia. The .spr is the compilation of all the sprites ( where the sprites are stored), and the .dat is where they come together as looktypes and itemtypes. To edit them, we will require two programs! Why two, you ask? One for adding the sprites into the .spr, and another one for putting them into position inside the .dat. So here are the links to what we will be using in this tutorial. In reality, you only need one, but the first one, which is the TibiaEditorv6, doesnt work with the .dat, for some reason, and the Blackdemon Dat Editor is what most people use, but 99/100 times you try to save your work, it corrupts your .spr file, destroying your work. So we will use the TibiaEditor to add sprites into the .spr, and the Dat Editor to well, obviously edit the .dat.
Here is the TibiaEditorv6
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And here is the Dat Editor
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And here is the sprite we will be adding (to download it Right click on it and press save)

Now that we have all the programs, lets start by opening TibiaEditorv6

Now lets open our spr file! Just do what I do in the pics.

Okay! Find the path, and open it. After you open it, it should look like this

Warning!Don't scroll up and down too fast in TibiaEditor, or you'll end up freezing and crashing :/
Back to business. Now that our .spr is open, we have to import the sprite we are adding.

So do like the image, and right click any sprite and press Import.

This window should appear. Now press Open, and find the path to the sprite, and open it, just like we did with the .spr
It should now look like this

Now just press Import, and the window should close and look like this

No really apparent change, but our sprite has been added ^^, now we have to save our file.
So just do what I do in the pic

Then save it to wherever you want, and it should look like this

After that is done, we are finished with editing the .spr! So just close TibiaEditor, and now open DatEditor.
When you open it, it should look like this

Now press the little folder, and choose the path. The .dat should be the .dat you want to edit, and the .spr is the .spr we compiled with TibiaEditor.

After thats done, press open
Wait until it looks like this

Then press Close and you should be here

Now scroll down until the very end of the sprites (on the right side [>>]), until you see this

Now follow the steps in this pic (File - new - Item)

And it should go to this. It will be blank, don't worry, thats normal

Now we drag our sprite to the location showed in this pic

And it should now look like this

Now press the Save icon next to the folder we used to open our sprites, and this should pop up

Now here comes the tricky part. Save the .dat to where u want to save it ^^, but the spr, dont overwrite the one we compiled with TibiaEditor, because DatEditor WILL crash, and if you overwrite the one from TibiaEditor, you will lose all your progress. Now after you chose the locations, press save, and this will happen

So now the spr we saved with DatEditor will be ruined, but the .dat will be working fine, so take the .dat from DatEditor and the .spr from TibiaEditor, and there you go, you've added a sprite to a client ^^
Hope you liked the tutorial, and hope it was useful. Took me weeks to find out completely how to do this, reading over 20 tutorials, and none were complete like this, so i hope this helps everybody.

 

[Ranyo13]

For which tibia version are these editors? I'm using 8.6

 

[Sir Bananas]

DatEditor goes up to 8.6, and the TibiaEditor can handle 9.31 ^^

 

[Amiroslo]

nice but wrong section

 

[Xeikh]

Thanks, ima try

 

[Protegy]

You have to wait 600 seconds between each download :s

 

[Reasembled]

great tutorial, should be sticked

 

[SeRoN]

You are Helpful , Thank you mute

 

[Xeikh]

Btw, there you dont say what would be the ID of new item... But at least we can remplace the sprite of a item...
Anyways its useful!

 

[Sir Bananas]

Btw, there you dont say what would be the ID of new item... But at least we can remplace the sprite of a item...
Anyways its useful!

The ID is where it says Itemtype

 

[Anteyz]

When i try this its comes error,
Trying with 8.6 iwth the dat editor and the error is
unknow option byte :88
previous option byte :1
Adress :21

ABORTING.....
please could you help?`
Regards Anteyz

 

[Sir Bananas]

You have to select 7.6 on the drop down list

 

[Sherice]

Are there any dat editors for version 9.31? (or 9.44 preferably)

 

[Zuma Master]

Don't we need a .otb editor to add the items we want to our otserv? or will the steps you provided allow me to type in the items itemid in items.xml and it will work? please respond quickly.

 

[Sir Bananas]

I lost my Item Editor when I formatted my pc. I have to find another one, when i do I'll post it here.

 

[Ns Sparkz]

After i Finished All Those Step's.
When i open my Ot How could i Find the Sprite?

 

[Sir Bananas]

You have to add an item with an Item Editor, with the looktype of the sprite.

 

[massaxux]

Great tutorial, but not complete. Like you said, you miss the item editor, to edit .otbm and add itens into the otbm. But still realy great tutorial. Well i would like to say that you don't need the dat editor to be compatible with your tíbia version. You have others ways to add itens in your server. Oh ofcourse you may not do it in 9.4 ahead but 9.31 you can add your own items etc..

And sorry for my bad english, i am not US. But i am here to help anyone. Oh, and, about the ways to add items in your server 9.31 or older i am creating and testing a tutorial and soon it will be avaliable for all. I will write in portuguese and try to translate for u gays.

 

[Sir Bananas]

And sorry for my bad english, i am not US. But i am here to help anyone. Oh, and, about the ways to add items in your server 9.31 or older i am creating and testing a tutorial and soon it will be avaliable for all. I will write in portuguese and try to translate for u gays.

Make the tutorial, and I'll translate

 

[Santy]

How does one delete sprites with this DatEd?