Add a new type

Adding a new type in Pokémon Studio creates its data but not its graphics, so the type icons come out broken in battle and in the menus. This guide creates the type in Studio, explains why PSDK mis-slices the type spritesheets when you add a type, and lists every image file to update.

Create the type in Studio

In Pokémon Studio, open Database > Types and click New type. Two fields matter:

• Name: the type's display name, the text shown wherever the type is named.
• Color: the color stored for the type.

Studio assigns the next free id automatically, then saves the type to Data/Studio/types/<db_symbol>.json. That record holds the type's id, dbSymbol, color, textId and its type-chart data (damageTo). There is no image field anywhere in it: Studio never creates or resizes a graphic. The Color you pick is stored as data, it is not used to draw the type's icon.

This is the whole reason the rest of this guide exists. As far as Studio is concerned the type is complete, but in game its icon is missing, and adding it shifts the icon of every other type too.

Why the type icons break in battle

The symptom appears in battle: the type image shown on a move is wrong. It shows the wrong type, a picture shifted up by a few pixels, or a clipped sliver. Deleting the new type makes everything display correctly again, which is what makes the cause hard to guess.

PSDK stores each set of type icons as a single image: a vertical spritesheet with one row per type, stacked in type-id order. Row 0 is the empty "none" type (id 0), row 1 is the first real type, and so on down the strip.

The catch is that the file does not record how tall one row is. At load time PSDK cuts the image into as many equal rows as there are types in your database:

# UI helper: as many rows as there are types in the database
super(viewport, 1, each_data_type.size)

# SpriteSheet: a row's height is derived, never stored
h = value.height / @nb_y

So each row's height is image height ÷ number of types. With the 18 default types plus the "none" slot, the shipped spritesheets are 19 rows tall and every row falls on a clean boundary. The moment you add a type, each_data_type.size becomes 20, PSDK cuts the same image into 20 rows, every row gets shorter, and each icon is read from the wrong slice. The whole strip looks shifted and clipped. That is the bug.

The fix follows directly: the type count grew, so each image has to grow by one row to keep the per-row height unchanged.

The spritesheets to update

PSDK ships ten type-indexed spritesheets across two folders, graphics/interface/ (battle and menus) and graphics/pokedex/ (the Pokédex screen). Each is a single column with one row per type, currently 19 rows (the "none" type plus the 18 default types):

File	Current size	Cell height	What it feeds
graphics/interface/battle/types.png	120 × 513	27 px	Type icon on moves in the battle move menu
graphics/interface/battle_attack_dummy.png	155 × 1007	53 px	Type plate handled by the AttackDummySprite helper
graphics/interface/types.png	32 × 266	14 px	Type icons in menus; fallback when no localized file exists
graphics/interface/types_en.png	32 × 266	14 px	English variant of interface/types.png
graphics/interface/types_fr.png	32 × 266	14 px	French variant of interface/types.png
graphics/interface/types_es.png	32 × 266	14 px	Spanish variant of interface/types.png
graphics/pokedex/types.png	48 × 304	16 px	Type icons on the Pokédex screen; fallback when no localized file exists
graphics/pokedex/types_en.png	48 × 304	16 px	English variant of pokedex/types.png
graphics/pokedex/types_fr.png	48 × 304	16 px	French variant of pokedex/types.png
graphics/pokedex/types_es.png	48 × 304	16 px	Spanish variant of pokedex/types.png

Both folders carry localized variants (types_en.png, types_fr.png, types_es.png): the icon includes the type's name as text, so there is one image per language. PSDK loads types_<language>.png from the relevant folder for the current language and falls back to that same folder's types.png when the localized file is missing. Update the variant for every language your game ships; if you keep only types.png in a folder, that single file is enough there.

Add your type's row

For every file in the table, the operation is the same:

1. Open the spritesheet in an image editor that preserves transparency (PNG alpha).
2. Increase the canvas height by exactly one cell height, the value in the table: interface/battle/types.png goes from 513 to 540, battle_attack_dummy.png from 1007 to 1060, interface/types.png and its variants from 266 to 280, pokedex/types.png and its variants from 304 to 320. Keep the width unchanged.
3. Draw your type's icon in the new bottom row. Its row index is your type's id, so the type added last sits in the last row.
4. Keep every row the same height. The engine assumes equal rows, so a misaligned or half-height row shifts everything below it.

Save each file back to its original path under graphics/interface/ or graphics/pokedex/. Copying an existing row as a template is the safest way to keep the new icon's dimensions and baseline consistent with the others.

Verify in battle

Type-icon changes are only visible in game, never in Studio:

1. Launch your game.
2. Start a battle with a move that uses the new type.
3. Open the move menu and check the type icon on the move, then open a Pokémon's summary and the Pokédex to check the menu and Pokédex icons.

If an icon is shifted or clipped, the matching spritesheet's height is off by a row: re-check that image height ÷ type count gives a whole number and that every row has the same height.

Conclusion

• Pokémon Studio creates type data only (Data/Studio/types/<db_symbol>.json); it never generates or resizes the type icons.
• PSDK slices each type spritesheet into image height ÷ type count rows, so adding a type without growing the images misaligns every icon.
• Update all ten type-indexed spritesheets across graphics/interface/ (battle/types.png, battle_attack_dummy.png, types.png and its types_en/fr/es.png variants) and graphics/pokedex/ (types.png and its types_en/fr/es.png variants), adding one row per new type.
• The new icon goes in the last row (row index = type id), and every row must keep the same height.
• Type icons render in game only: verify in a real battle, in the summary and in the Pokédex, not in Studio.