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[canesugar42]

Hey guys, I'm trying to sus out how to make the in game clock time of a game accessible via Lua script to a trainer. Basically I want to eventually create a bunch of functions based off clock time.

What I've got so far is that there is a function that creates the h:m:s as a float for h:m...

So 8:29 would be 8.483... it's always to several more decimal places though.

The autoassembler code for the function always stays the same:

movss[rcx+78],xmm2

So I can search for that easily and then find the two time addresses by doing find out what addresses this code writes to in the code list (once I add the function to it)

So there are two addresses that this writes to, one h, and one for m. They're both floats, but one counts every second, and one only updates every minute (4 seconds in real life). The seconds aren't represented on the actual clock display, but they count up in the address behind the scenes in both floats.

There's some time formatting that goes on, and then the final result is pushed to another memory address which is, again, always different.

I can easily find all the values I need every time, but I'm having a brain fart trying to figure out how to actually get the m:s values out of cheat engine, and into a lua script that would pass the values to a trainer that would display the time, and later, a bunch of values based on the time, but for now, just the time.

If you save and reload, all the addresses become different too... and the rcx and xmm2 register & extended memory change to different register/extended memory locations too.

So yeah, all I want to do is have the time constantly displayed in the trainer whenever the game is running, having it zero out whenever the game is not running, and be able to pick up at any point no matter what the time actually is in game.

It's just kinda beyond me as to how to do this all in Lua.

To be a little more pointed, I guess I was wondering if there's something like AOBScan for functions. Like a lua function that did the same thing as Search > find assembly code. That'd make my life a lot easier, but I just can't seem to figure out how to get there.

[TheyCallMeTim13]

You can look in the "celua.txt" file in the CE directory for CE Lua documentation. Or use google to find stuff in the CE wiki, but the celua file is always more up to date and complete.

https://wiki.cheatengine.org/index.php?title=Lua:AOBScan

You just need reliable addresses then use "readFloat" to get the values.

You can even use "autoAssemble" to use ASM with lua.
https://wiki.cheatengine.org/index.php?title=Lua:autoAssemble

[Birdi]