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[beagle]

I apologize if these are poor questions, i dont want to come off as lazy but i am thoroughly confused on how to correctly integrate AA with lua. I am comfortable with using AA but i dont have much experience using lua for memory editing. Im now mainly stuck on trying to get lua and AA to communicate.

Q1. I would like to use lua to remember things like opcodes and addresses and then inside my AA script call on them, is this possible?

eg:
in lua:
local ad1 = 12345 or op1 = eb 75
and in AA:
ad1: db 90 or 66666: op1

2. How do i put atuo assemble code in a lua script and vice versa?

3. is it possible to have an AA script in your cheat table read from your lua script and vice versa, or should they be together?

[Dark Byte]

you can let your AA script read/write a registered symbol, and let a Lua script read/write that

e.g:

[beagle]

Fantastic, thank you :)

Something i would like to do is use lua to record variable wildcard bytes before they are overwritten so that i can restore them in the [disable] section of my AOBScan script. Should i use lua inside the AA script for this?

[Dark Byte]

You can of course use Lua to store the original bytes in a byteTable and on disable write them back.
But keep in mind that the Lua section executes before the AA script, so things like AOBscan and stuff will not have been executed. So your Lua script would then have to do the aobscan itself to get to the address and store the original bytes.
Of course if it's an exact address, then it's easy enough. (readBytes/writeBytes)

BUT, you can also do all this without Lua

[beagle]

Oh ok, that looks good. I figured it would be more difficult to do with just AA alone.

Thanks :)

Edit:

Are there any performance issues with using readmem to read and overwrite a lot of bytes, eg readmem(base1,2048)?