Cheat Engine

[itsTUCK3R]

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to the whole scripting, memory address, and pointers thing, but I think I have a good grasp on it. I'm trying to make a script for the game "World of Tanks" for my Logitech G-13. I want it to be pretty cool and have some cool features, it'll display health, ammunition, kills...etc. you get the picture. I've been using cheatengine to find the addresses of the information, and I'm struggling a little to find the pointers, but everything is going pretty smooth for only doing this for 2 days lol. I just wanted to know once I have the static pointers can I use them in an LUA script for the G-13? The scripting language seems fairly straight forward and pretty simple, but I just don't know how I would use the addresses in the script to be displayed on the LCD screen.

[Fantasy]

Since I don't know LUA, I can't tell you for sure.

But if it can read from addresses, then sure. Just set the LUA script to read from the pointer address.
It could go something like
address: 0005000C has a value of 100.
Then create a variable that reads from address 0005000C, and displays 0005000C's value on the LCD display.
But again, I don't know if it's that simple, or if it even can be done, since I know nothing of either your Logitech keyboard or the LUA Scripting language. But good luck with it buddy.

This is the wrong section, it should probably be in the General Programming.
*Moved from General Discussion*

http://www.forum.cheatengine.org/viewforum.php?f=125
That section may also become usefull to you.

Welcome to CEF.
Enjoy your time here, and please read through all the stickies and rules, and you should be fine ^^

[itsTUCK3R]

Sorry about the wrong placement of the thread and thank you for the warm welcome!

Well there are some limitations with it, obviously the LUA programming language isn't the problem, but the limitations come from the G13. However, I figured even with the limitations of the G13 the script that is being run is run on my computer, not the gamepad, so in essence I think I SHOULD be able to have the script pull the in-game information, declare the pointers variables, and have the gamepad just display something like

OutputLCDMessage("HP:" Pointer_HP);

where "Pointer_HP" is the variable or something along those lines. Another thing I am still having issues with is trying to make sense of the pointers. I have no problems isolating the memory addresses in the game, however once I try to find their pointers I end up with 1,000,000+ results every time. I've read the tutorials and help guides but it seems they aren't working in this case. Guess I'll just have to play around with it more :/

[atom0s]

Firstly, it's Lua not LUA. (It's not an acronym. )

By default Cheat Engine's implementation has no support for hardware customizations, such as printing to the keyboards LED. You'll either have to create a plugin to do it with Cheat Engines plugin system, or alter the code of CE yourself and add that support manually.

The G-13 implementation of Lua is customized to include wrappers to their SDK and such so CE by default will not have it as well.

[Fantasy]

Sorry Wiccaan xD But as I stated I know nothing of Lua.

The cheat engine tutorial should give you a great basic understanding of how pointers work

[itsTUCK3R]

Oh no I wasn't talking about having the G-13 in correlation to CE, I was just going to use CE to find the pointer addresses for HP and such. This was my general plan.

1) Use CE to find the memory addresses, then find the pointers.
2) Write down the pointers and then use a Lua script to read that info
3) That script will in-turn post the information on the G-13's LCD screen

So basically CE is just the tool to get me those pointers. The only two problems I'm having are making sense of the 1,000,000+ pointers and then even after I get the pointers I need to figure out how to get my script to read those pointers so they can be posted on the LCD screen.

[atom0s]

Looking at the PDF for the G13 Lua API, there is no method to read memory with their copy of Lua. Meaning even having the pointers from CE won't do you any good with just their keyboard API. The most you can do with their copy of Lua for their keyboards is alter the mouse and keyboard as well as write to the screen. Other then that you have no access to system API.

[tombana]