Cheat Engine

Astaroth4256 · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 8:35 am Post subject: Can't understand this opcode

My experience with disassembler is still quite low and I met this obstacle which I can't understand.

I found a pointer to the address of the selected entity in game, I'll call it 17600CE4. It is the only address that changes if I change my target in game (and it's the correct one - always points to the right stuff). Now I want to set the target to something else so I change the value of 17600CE4 to an address of another entity in game, but as soon as the value is changed an opcode is called and the address is set back to whatever it was before and the target changes for a fraction of a second.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:39 am Post subject:

Astaroth4256 · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:15 pm Post subject:

So I dug through the assembly code related to the address I found, learned some assembler and looked up some "tutorials" and I realized that a better way to do this would be telling the game that I have clicked this entity and so it should be set as my target, but I couldn't find anything that would teach me how to call the "I clicked this entity" function so now I'm quite stuck here at this point.
I can do the dll injection part, I can (probably) find the "I clicked this entity" function after hours of digging, but how would I call it with specified parameters? Please don't go too rough on me, I'm still just a noob trying to learn.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:25 pm Post subject:

Look up "Ultimap". There are several YouTube tutorials on it that also show how to call functions.

Note that selecting a unit could be as simple as changing some value within the structure of the unit. There might be an array of pointers to selected units somewhere. Try individually selecting units and doing changed/unchanged value scans (4-byte).

cooleko · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:34 pm Post subject:

You already found the "I clicked this entity" function, now you just need to read it and understand where it sets ebx so that you can make the necessary changes.

Do the first step of what Parkour told you, essentially, you found the address that shows you your target, but not the address that sets your target, something is retaining the original target and replacing, you just need to find where that is and its related to what populates ebx.

Astaroth4256 · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:58 pm Post subject: