Rich Discord Presence for Back to the Dawn

[!Caution] Back to the Dawn has switched from using mono to using il2cpp which means that this mod needs to use BepInEx 6..... The latest state of main has the necessary changes but readme changes are still TODO

Compatible version

• Game : 1.3.82.10-RC
• BepInEx: 5.4.22
• Steam Build ID: 13665081

Description

A BepInEx plugin that adds rich discord presence support for the game Back to the Dawn. It uses the Discord GameSDK to communicate with Discord to set the rich presence. Internally it uses Monomod Runtime detours for game functions to keep track of the current game state, which is then interpreted to define the rich presence.

Features

Game location

At the time of writing the images for locations are incomplete. Please refer to Asset Status for the latest state of available images.

Playing as

Character	Image
Thomas
Bob
Reed

Save DateTime

In-game time is shown as Day X [HH:mm] where HH is 24 hours time and mm always shows two digits.

Battle Detection

Important Remarks

The integration makes use of a Discord application in order to refer to assets (as opposed to using links). This means that any asset must be uploaded to the appropriate Discord app and the associations references explicitly defined in the mod must be maintained.

Refer to the Asset Status section to see the current state of images.

Installation

This is a BepInEx plugin which can be installed by being placed in the /BepInEx/plugins directory after running the game with BepInEx installed. Please refer to Installing BepInEx for this.

Usage

Simply have Discord open while running the game. If you notice that your presence is changed to playing Back to the Dawn but no other information is visible it may be that Discord has auto-detected Back to the Dawn and is showing that instead of the rich presence. In order to solve this, disable detection of the Back to the Dawn game with a verified mark under Discord User Settings -> Activity Settings -> Registered Games.

Ensure the eye icon which is for detection is red or disabled

Windows

Things should work out of the box... If not please create an issue.

Linux

Your mileage may vary, it appears that the native Discord client works just fine (provided you define a RPC bridge, if needed). If you are using a solution that relies on arrpc you may find that the game process detectables trumps this mod (refer to detectables.json).

Getting things to build

• Modify GameDir in Common.props to point to your game installation location

  • I should move this to csproj.user at some point...

• Opening the solution in Visual Studio or Rider should automatically download the appropriate Discord GameSDK files.

  • This is done via the ./build/GetDiscordSDK.targets file. Currently it is a bit brittle but was fun to make :)
  • If you have trouble with this and/or are using an SDK that does not attempt to resolve the references automatically (thereby invoking the script) you an always download the SDK manually and put things into the appropropriate location.
  • Download v2.5.6 of the discord GameSDK.
  • Place the csharp library files into external/discordsdk/csharp
  • Place the contents of lib/x86_64 into external/discordsdk/native

• Note that project build will try to copy plugin DLL to the BepInEx plugin directory but will not copy discord sdk native dll. This needs to be done manually until an extra build task is added.

• This mod relies on generated runtime detour hooks which can be automatically generated with Bepinex.Monomod.HookGenPatcher. You may also further reduce the size of the generated file with the use of LighterPatcher.

Planned Features

• [ ] Minigame detection
• [ ] More detailed battle information
• [ ] Gang association information

Asset Status

Identifier	Type	Status	Image	Notes
main_menu	MapAsset	✔️
map_recreation_yard	MapAsset	✔️
map_main_building	MapAsset	✔️
map_cell_block_a	MapAsset	✔️
map_cell_block_b	MapAsset	✔️
map_cell_a207	MapAsset	✔️
map_cell_a103	MapAsset	✔️
map_bathroom	MapAsset	✔️
map_general_building	MapAsset	✔️
map_barbershop	MapAsset	❌		Not accessible yet
map_chapel	MapAsset	✔️
map_cafeteria	MapAsset	✔️
map_hiding_place	MapAsset	❌
map_infirmary	MapAsset	✔️
map_segregation	MapAsset	✔️
map_laundry_room	MapAsset	❌
map_sewage_treatment_room	MapAsset	❌
map_kitchen	MapAsset	❌
map_guards_room	MapAsset	❌
map_roof_site	MapAsset	✔️
map_wardens_office	MapAsset	❌
map_visit_room	MapAsset	❌
map_conjugal_visit_room	MapAsset	❌
map_court	MapAsset	❌
map_pipe_area	MapAsset	❌
map_central_garden	MapAsset	❌
map_sewage_pipe	MapAsset	❌
map_sewer	MapAsset	❌
map_mixing_room	MapAsset	❌
map_mailroom	MapAsset	❌
map_apartment_block	MapAsset	❌
map_college_dorm	MapAsset	❌
map_inmate_property_storeroom	MapAsset	❌
map_back_room_club	MapAsset	❌
map_rooftop_tool_shed	MapAsset	✔️
map_fallen_angels	MapAsset	❌
map_private_room	MapAsset	❌
map_backstage_corridor	MapAsset	❌
map_dressing_room	MapAsset	❌
map_inner_hall	MapAsset	❌
map_chaplains_lounge	MapAsset	❌
map_kitchen_cellar	MapAsset	❌
map_cooking_room	MapAsset	❌
map_operating_room	MapAsset	❌
map_electrical_room	MapAsset	❌
map_house_in_the_suburbs	MapAsset	❌
map_road_in_the_suburbs	MapAsset	❌
map_visitation_corridor	MapAsset	❌
map_ground_behind_infirmary	MapAsset	❌
map_prison_cell_tower	MapAsset	❌
map_drain_depths	MapAsset	❌
map_tv_building	MapAsset	❌
map_hospital_ward	MapAsset	❌
map_city_cemetery	MapAsset	❌		Not accessible yet
map_border_checkpoints	MapAsset	❌
map_fighters_room	MapAsset	❌
map_vip_box	MapAsset	❌
map_boxing_ring	MapAsset	✔️
map_casino_alley	MapAsset	❌
character_thomas	CharacterAsset	✔️
character_reed	CharacterAsset	✔️
character_bob	CharacterAsset	✔️