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The body images for characters update with a preference for the first available image. The order that images are searched for is: pregnant, naked, default. If a character does not meet the requirements for the first two images or they are not found then it will skip that image. When an image is automatically updated it will store a value in the person to indicate which type of image it is using. However, this value for the image type is not used nor updated when the image is manually changed (including the random portraits mod's button). Any change of image while the image type is set to pregnant or naked would confuse the system until the person matched the default image type again.
Checking the size of the image nodes is difficult without the Godot editor.
https://itch.io/t/838806/core-tag-size-rules
I don't make image packs so I don't have many tips for making them. There is a channel on the Strive Discord that is dedicated to portrait packs(https://itch.io/t/284398/discord). The game only supports PNG, JPEG, or WEBP image formats. Most use PNG because they like to replace the background with transparency, though some feel that it is just extra work especially with the fading added by the Bugfix mod.
Something to keep in mind about image sizes is that anime images often have very fine details for things like hair or facial features, when those are shrunk to the portrait size they may not appear correct. Also, while there may be small benefits to using larger images and letting the game scale them down, this results in rather large file sizes. There is no benefit to increasing the size of images unless you have some kind of image processing to add detail.