RPG MV : Character Speech Art Dimensions? How to Input Chest - Up Speech Art?

[Kacribus]

Greetings! Kaht here once again! I'm looking to do some custom art displayed within texts to replace the boring character generated art for my upcoming game. What are the dimensions for it? As well, another thing I'd like to know how to do is creating those chest up character speech art which pops up above the text box. Let's say I already made a transparent chest - up image for a character. Are there certain dimensions set for the amount of space the image takes up? How would I input it into the game?

Example images down below :

1 ) From Angels of Death - Demonstrates custom square speech art.
2 ) From Skyborn - Demonstrates transparent full - body / chest up speech art.
3 ) From Porcupine Princess - Demonstrates custom square speech art.

 

[Llareian]

The default picture size for an event's Show Text face is 144 x 144. They're saved in 4 x 2 face image files under the project's img\faces\ folder (so the total image file size is 576 x 288).

You can change this limitation with a plugin to support busts (or other large sized images). There are two that I found searching Google for "MV message bust plugin". If you look harder you might find others.

 

[Andar]

The bust scripts/plugins mentioned above are only for convenience, if you want to use them with easy replacements.
Basically you could do the same with a show picture command just before the show text command. You could even make the frame part of that picture and set show text to an invisible frame.
But using show picture will require more work and more commands in the events.

 

[Kacribus]

@Llareian Thanks! This is just what I was looking for! As well, thank you for the additional elaboration, it really helps me understand better.

@Andar I see, another way to display bust images. It's always better to know that there's more then one way to do things, although I'll stick to plug - ins for less work. Thank you!