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The Discord (https://itch.io/t/284398/discord) is generally a better place for answers, but people occasionally check here.

I haven't seen anyone who knows what they are doing talk about putting images in ".../AppData/Roaming/Strive/mods/". They won't do anything there and it is a bad place to put them, so delete those copies. The "portraits" and "bodies" folders should be located in ".../AppData/Roaming/Strive exactly as you said you still have them. As long as you did not change the in-game paths for those folders (found through the manual image selection interface), then they should be located exactly where they need to be.

The mod files should be extracted from the zip folder and the folder called "randomportraits" should be put in ".../AppData/Roaming/Strive/mods/", so you should have ".../AppData/Roaming/Strive/mods/randomportraits/info.txt".

All together it should look like this.

• Strive
  • portraits
    • < your images or image pack >
  • bodies
    • < your images or image pack >
  • mods
    • randomportraits
      • info.txt
      •  < rest of mod files >

To install the mod, simply start the game, open the Mods menu, select "randomportraits", press "Apply", and when the report appears with "No errors recorded." press "Exit Game". There is a guide for using and making mods if you press the "Help" button in the top right of the Mods menu.

Now to cover the likely causes of the problems you are having, as it did not appear to me that any of what you said accounted for your problem. This is because Strive comes with random portrait and body image assignment without any mods, so at the very least you should have images that match the race of the person when you start a new game. This mod adds matching for attributes of the person besides race.

If you added the images to the game folder after you started your progress, then you can either manually select the images through the "Customization" tab for the slave or you can add the Bugfix mod, which will attempt to give everyone without a portrait a random image when you load the progress.

If you do not have images assigned when starting a new progress, then your problem is most likely that your images are not tagged correctly. To tag the images they must either be in a folder named for the tag or the file name must include the tag. Without mods, the only tag needed is the race names as found in game but without spaces. For this mod, you will also need the sex and age. 

If you get portraits assigned but not full body images, then your problem is most likely that the paths of the two images do not match. They should look something like this:

.../portraits/Lamia/Female/Adult/Purple SkinL TitsM+TitsB #MGQ [bcad17e8].png
.../bodies/Lamia/Female/Adult/Purple SkinL TitsM+TitsB #MGQ [bcad17e8].png