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How does D3DHook send the data to the process?

 
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 3:49 pm    Post subject: How does D3DHook send the data to the process? Reply with quote

When you call a Lua function from D3DHook somehow a function is executed in the target process.
I tried looking at the source of the Cheat Engine, but there are so many files on D3DHook that I got lost.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It uses a shared memory object.
that memory blocks contains a list of of textures and a list of render commands.
when the game renders a frame it first makes sure that the textures are loaded as well, and then it follows the render commands (e.g place texture 1 at position x,y with rotation r)

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But when you call the function "createTextContainer" for example. The version of this function that was written in pascal, is in the memory of the game or the Cheat Engine?
If it is in memory of the Cheat Engine itself, then I think I will have to change my OpenGL Hook dll a lot.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, the code written in pascal is not running inside the target.
The code written in C++ is executing in the target. (on frame render it sees that the data has changed, and then acts accordingly)

The memory blocks that CE uses for data like textures and other objects do reside in both processes at the same time (they share the same physical memory)

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you talking about it here?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/pt-br/library/windows/desktop/aa366551(v=vs.85).aspx

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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