Mod: Better Readable Text in SeaBed

Sessions Session #1 - SeaBed
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The pipeline from “I’m opening a VN book club” to “I’m modding a Unity game” certainly is a weird one. However, it happened.

As mentioned in the chapter discussion threads, especially on smaller screens (e.g. the Steam Deck) the background makes reading text pretty hard sometimes.

Knowing this is a Unity game and me previously modding others, I figured this must be pretty simple to adjust too.

I made a modded asset bundle that overrides the character frames with a darker version, it’s simply the same image overlaid again, making it effectively twice as dark.

Default background:

Default dialog opacity
Default dialog opacity1052×591 39.8 KB

Modded version:

Modded dialog opacity
Modded dialog opacity1914×1071 74.8 KB

Download

You can download the modified asset bundle from this link:
https://desu.cloud/seabed/image

Installation

Desktop
  1. Download the above file, it’s a file called image without any file extension
  2. Open Steam, go to your library and open SeaBed, in the same row as the Play button, click on the cogwheel at the right-hand side, then Manage > Browse local files.
  3. This opens a file browser at the location where SeaBed is installed. Go into the SeaBed_Data folder, and inside there, into the StreamingAssets folder.
  4. (Optional) Scroll down, find the original image file and rename to something like image_backup in case things go wrong.
  5. Copy the downloaded image file into the StreamingAssets folder.
  6. Done!

Steam Deck
  1. Switch into Desktop Mode
    Either hold the power button until the menu appears or press the Steam button and navigate down to Power
  2. (Optional) If you don’t have a browser installed yet, press the Steam Deck icon in the bottom left, navigate to the search bar of the system and click it. Hold Steam + X to open the on-screen keyboard and type Firefox, a shortcut to install Firefox should appear.
  3. Open the above link in a browser and download the file.
  4. Use Dolphin, a shortcut should already be in the taskbar, to navigate to the Downloads folder.
  5. Open Steam from the Desktop shortcut, go to your library and open SeaBed, in the same row as the Play button, click on the cogwheel at the right-hand side, then Manage > Browse local files.
  6. This opens a file browser at the location where SeaBed is installed. Go into the SeaBed_Data folder, and inside there, into the StreamingAssets folder.
  7. Copy the downloaded image file into the StreamingAssets folder.
  8. Done!

Troubleshooting

In case something breaks in the game (this shouldn’t happen, but I won’t guarantee anything), do the following:

  • Restore the original image file from a previously made backup as per installation instructions.
  • Open the library entry of SeaBed in Steam, go to Manage > Properties > Installed Files and click Verify integrity of game files. This will redownload any non-original game file and make things work as before.

Hope this will ease your reading time as much as it does for me!

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The pipeline from “I’m opening a VN book club” to “I’m modding a Unity game” certainly is a weird one. However, it happened.

I was almost expecting it given your reverse engineering experience, but it happened much faster than I thought, hahahaha!

Thank you, I’m not sure I’m going to install it since I’m not having any trouble reading, but I’m sure that it will be helpful for the other readers!

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I owe you my life and will be installing this posthaste before my next reading session. :folded_hands::folded_hands:

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Just installed it and also figured out why it was so grainy for me before then.. my resolution was too low because I didn’t know about the whole “change the language to fix the setting screen”. I only set the message speed to fastest and never looked at it again. :melting_face:

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