Cheat Engine

[paul44]

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My tables come with a number of routines - among others - manipulating coordinates (save/restore position, free roaming). But I've now come across a couple of games that use doubles instead.
So rather then "extending" with 'if/then', I thought about "redefining" the read/writeFloat to Double counterpart (as shown in image)
(~ tested and working; picked this up when doing print vs save_to_file some time back)

Some questions/advice (before i get on to it):
1. is there a better/preferred way to do this (besides 'if then') ? Note that:
- most manipulation is done in lua, and singleFloat is precise enough
- do same thing with 'writeFloat to double'...
- asm part is always game_specific
b. if readFloat-function did not get saved first, how to restore original function ?
(besides quiting/loading CE ~ sh... happens )
c. add/multiply float to/with double: tested and working as expected

ps: if found a conversion algorithm 'double to float" which works fine. not yet tested if one can just "move params" to left_side in order to calc 'dVal' ?
=> dVal = ... ?

[ParkourPenguin]

`readFloat = readDouble` - don't ever do this. If you must do something like this, use another variable that gets set to either readFloat or readDouble.

[paul44]

^ yeah, i wasn't all that keen either on doing that 'overwriting function'-thing.
Anyways: created 2 functions for that, and first tested on existing table using floats (getting it working with that setup)
(obviously needed to do some "clean up" - several vars to 8-byte mostly)

And now - more or less - applied it on new table with doubles; and it works fine (with little effort); ànd did not have to touch the (updated) routines !

In a nutshell:
[code]-- accepts float & double...
function readPrecision(addr)
local dVal = readFloat(addr)
if (bPrecision == 1) then dVal = readDouble(addr) end
return dVal
end

...
writePrecision(addrCoord,readPrecision(addrOrigX))[/code]

=> (global) bPrecision is set in my main script


ps: Lua internally uses doubles: nice to know, expecially since many articles @stackoverflow refer to float - rather then double - in general