[Sprite]Adding Sprites 8.50+ Using TibiaEditor and DatEditor by BlackDemon[IDC FILE]

[Shinmaru]

OK, Let's begin this Tutorial.
{Explanation}
In this Tut. I'm going to show you how to add items and sprites to your OTS 8.50 and up.
First of all you need Tibia Editor and Dat Editor by BlackDemon, next just follow the picture directed tutorial.
1.

Go to File/Open/Dat File and find Tibia.dat, repeat the same and open SPR File and find Tibia.spr
open them and it will look like this:

>Please Read the warnings in this picture<
2.

Go to File/Import... and a window like this one will appear:

Now in this window click on Sprites and then click Open... ,

ok now this is where the magic is
this editor unlike others you can open 64x64 images and up and it will break them down to 32x32
and it will look like this:

after that click Import

see now you will find them on the sprite box to the right of the window.
3.

Now go to File/Compile/Sprite File and now...

Now wait till it finishes compiling
4.

OK, now that, that is out of the way we are going now to open the Dat Editor it's
inside a folder named "release", so now with that open go to File/Open.. and the rest should be
self explainable in the next picture:

Easy, no?
5.

Now let's go to File/New/Item and it will create a new slot for the new item on the the left side of the window, look at pic for how it will look like:

see the new slot? that's where the new item will be, look at next pic , it's gonna get complicated:

OK now as you see there are various things in here like Display, Items Sprites, Items,
Sprite Information<Very Important), Extras, Item Stats and such but, we are going to look at Sprite Information, in it you are going to see width and height, ok so let's say you want a 64x64 image as an item, so what we do is the following width = 2 and height = 2 if it's w = 1 and h = 1 then you can add
a 32x32, now once you have that set you can pick a sprite image that is located on the right side of the window(Sprite Box) and drag it to the Display Window, ok you see that there is a sprite already in place
now do you see the light blue box above it? That, is one of the boxes where you drag your sprites(they only highlight when you drag a sprite to it, so basically you can't see the boxes), now you really need to know what type of item you are making because you have to edit the Item Stats and that requires know how well i'll let you do the guess work, now moving on.

now once you are done placing the sprites in their rightful places, go to Export/Export Item and:

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[Shinmaru]

[Continued]

Save it in the folder you want.
6.

Now back to Tibia Editor(Assuming you left it open, you don't have to reload the spr and dat files again),
but I, reloaded the sprite file, why? I'll show you something really nice about this item editor as you can see in the picture the items that i have loaded are no longer there(I'm using an unedited sprites file),
ok , now let's go to File/Import and a window like this one will appear:

Now the tab has to be on item then you click on Open... and find the item that you created or use the pre-made one, also make sure that the setting above open on the Select Appropriate Files window is set to All Files so the file IDC appears , so once that's done it will look like this:

now in here make sure that you set the "Destination" to item or anywhere that you want it to appear in.

Now here is the real thing when you imported the item it built the sprites into the sprites box and it has all the data that you assigned it on the dat editor, this makes it easier to share sprites and such with out having to go through the hassle of adding the sprite, the data and all of its stats.

 

[Beo]

Step 2 doesn't work for me.

There isn't a picture in the box, any idea?


Also I dont get the box below when trying to add a new item..

Edit;
Nvm, i didnt read about the DatEditor thing.

P.s
would be nice to give links also.

 

[Beo]

Still doesnt work for me..
The DATEditor comes up an error.

 

[RazorBlade]

By 8.50+, do you mean 8.62 is included?

 

[Shinmaru]

By 8.50+, do you mean 8.62 is included?

the most I've done is up to 8.54, I do not know if 8.6+ is workable, you are welcome to try.

 

[Wolfsong]

Hey!
When i open .spr and .dat file in dateditor it just says
"Error: Unknown option byte: 17
Previus option byte: 10
Address: 13

Aborting... "

whats this? :O

 

[Wolfsong]

bump

 

[Wolfsong]

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[Wolfsong]

bump

 

[TKO]

possibel to get it to work with 8.70-71

 

[RazorBlade]

Dat editor isn't able to open my 8.54 dat file.

 

[Wolfsong]

Exactly... Same for me but i found another way of import new stuff
This is only for 8.54 but i guess it can be used if you have the itemeditor of that client

Link: Here

 

[RazorBlade]

I've already used that, but the editors are not user-friendly and to add my custom sprites and items would take an immense amount of time.

 

[Wolfsong]

Well if you find one that works on 8.54 please post it here cause i really need too

 

[Forsakenfate]

When you make a tutorial try to make a full one, and this Blackdemon Dateditor is full with bugs and doesn't even compile back your spr and dat properly. And what about the ID of the item.. there's so many still unexplained, untill it is finished no credits from me.

 

[natanal99]

You .spr and .dat editor is no compatible with you tibia version.

try to put in version 7.80
or dowload a new editor.



(Sorry my english)

 

[zerosmoke]

Trying with 7.8 is a complete fail as well. The Mapper programs won't recognize the dats and sprs when you use them for the map. We need new 8.7 tools that actually work, not convoluted workarounds for old tools that aren't meant to work for the newer versions.

 

[zerosmoke]

I switched from 8.7 down to 8.5 and upgraded my engine while downgrading my protocol version. So I guess I'll be checking out this tutorial again tonight.

 

[EvilSkillz]

i didn't understand any thing ops