Cheat Engine

[thalesgomes93]

I'm a programmer, and everything begins when i liked the idea of understanding / hacking games.

I used CE a long ago to cheat a online game, but never did the codes/ memory edit by myself, always by someone that posted in some website...

So, now, long time after that "dream of hacking" and understanding how things works, i've been planning creating a simple bot to a private server.

Actually, i dont want to "cheat", just want to be able to "play" when i'm AFK, cuz game is one of my fav hobbies.

By now, i have an idea how things works, i can get the addresses of some offline games and things like this, but i couldnt get an base address of the game i want to bot...

And, once i got this base address idk whats next, i want at least move my caracter with some virtual keyboard presses or something like this.

Maybe Anyone can help me ?

Thanks in advance!

[realrbn]

[thalesgomes93]

Really?
I was talking about the trainers/ cheating.

I work as programmer with java/ javascript/ delphi/ .net/ c# etc (i WORK with this, but never used this to cheat).

[thalesgomes93]

up ?

[elusiveness]

Well i guess the title is not that bad, it probably will help future googlers, and i'm in a good mood today, so i won't ignore you, ok i'm being a little cocky right now but from a scrub to another scrub making a bot is a long ass pain! but a good start will be to get solid informations about your character like current/maximum HP, current/maximum MP, character coordinates XYZ axis, and last but not least what direction your character face.

ps: never tested it before, but you may avoid the following struggle by making a CE trainer.

Once you have found those informations as static values ofc (green address), you pretty much did 1% of the work, congratulation. Now since you are a programmer you may or not use the windows API (windows.h) if you plan to write this in C# you will have to do a lot of interop marshaling, and import unmanaged code such ReadProcessMemory to be able to read from the target process memory (as CE does if i'm not wrong) in order to read the current/max HP, etc. I suggest you to search for fleephacks on YT, you will find assets to understand how does all this work, also the MSDN is a good source of information.

Now lets say you are able to access these above informations from whitin your code, you already did 5% of the work, yay! Since you wanna do a simple bot, instead of writing an ass system of path finding, you'll pick the easy way which is... "the profiles", yep, long story short, you will have to write a little program who records your coordinates at regular interval, while you are moving your character. These profiles will be later in use on your bot to define the character path to follow, once the file path read (The best suitable files for these are by far XML), you will have to store these coordinates into a list of struct/class.

If you succeed the above then, you may see the end of it, you did 10% of the work. Assuming you are not doing dll injection, you will have to write a solid function like lookAt(Coordinates placeToLookAt) to make your character face in the right direction, at this time you will feel the pain of the geometry... but you are pretty much done with the profile logic, you will have to loop your list of coordinates to make your character move through these blindly.

The 90% left are the combat logic, making your bot using a potion when his HP or MP are under a certain level, using spells/attacks in an effective order, etc... only at this point you may say that you "made" a real bot when it is able to fight as good as a player would.

[thalesgomes93]

Great! Lots of informations!

First of all, Thank you very much for taking your time to try to help me!
So, this is kinda of a challenge to myself, since I started my life as a "IT guy" for gaming reasons lol.
About this "personal project", my first idea was to at least "move" my character left/right or up/down since I already found the static addresses of posX and posY. (but have no idea how to send commands to "move" my character)
"posZ" is missing, but I don't think I'll need it by now, the game that I'm trying to create a bot, is almost a "2D" game and also it's a private server.
I must be honest here, I didn't take that much time trying to "doing stuff" other then reading, cause most of the time I'm at work or I'm with my girlfriend, so this makes me have not that much time.

About the bot now, while I was researching at internet, I've found out that people use waypoints to "mark" the hunt, so the character would be "heading to WP1>heading to WP2>heading to WPn".
And I've also noticed that all in the game have some sort of "int/double" code, so I'm able to "scan" (no ideas how to do this yet) the area for this code, in this case, the "monsters" that i'm hunting, and when they're dead, their body has another code, and I can loot the items.
Do you think that maybe there's another way other than dealing with memory addresses to send my "movements" to the game, and "scanning" the game?
If there's no other way to deal with this, Its better to me start right the way, because I have a lot to learn lol.

So, anyone may have any ideas how can I scan/move by my bot?

Thank you in advance!

[elusiveness]

[thalesgomes93]