Is there a way to set the distance from the top of that screen that sierra style portraits display?
So i can have them at the bottom instead of the top.
This probably wont help you at all but I think the only way right now is to add "transparent space" on the top of your portrait sprites to "fake" it being lower...unless, of course, someone knows another way :P
I'd went bluntly for creation of custom speech functions which use custom gui to display speech and portraits where I like.