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Qvintus · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 07 Nov 2013 Posts: 32

Hi there, sorry for newbish question. Still getting the hang of ASM.
Read some guides here and there on the forum but none has mentioned
movss and xmm#

I'm assuming it's a 64 bit thing?
Any way I found and address and thought I'd try find an offset using 'See what accesses this address'

However it turned out with:

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 3:54 pm Post subject:

movss writes the floating point value stored in the 128 bit sse register

anyhow, you can rewrite this instruction to movss [ecx+00000000], xmm0

Qvintus · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 07 Nov 2013 Posts: 32

Ahh ok, thanks Dark Byte
Soo... that means the offset is 0 ?

If that the case I will simply look at this as the base address?
meaning I should be able to make an AoBscan from this?

Again sorry if I'm totally misunderstanding this.

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 5:06 pm Post subject:

no, it just means the offset is 0
there is no connection with an offset being 0 and base addresses.

base addresses are located on a static address
offsets are offsets

Qvintus · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 07 Nov 2013 Posts: 32

Oh sorry...
What I meant is the address for an AoB Scan?

In 'Rydian's Guide To Modern Pointers + AOB To Data' I understood it as he subtracts those +118 (offset) from what ever address and uses that as his base player structure.

I guess 'base' is misleading, or again I misunderstood something.
Really trying my best to understand.

Thanks a lot for your patience!

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:27 pm Post subject:

you could try it, but I don't think this is a "modern pointer" as it's a pointer directly to the value and not a pointer to a class object that contains the value

Qvintus · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 07 Nov 2013 Posts: 32

Excuse me asking this then since I feel a little stuck then.

How would you go about proceeding then?

- Do the hex search and add the offset, see what accesses.
- Pointer Search for end offset 0
- ??

Again thank you so much for time.

Rissorr · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:57 am Post subject:

Qvintus · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 07 Nov 2013 Posts: 32

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:22 pm Post subject:

You could check the callstack to see how it got that pointer by looking at the assembly code of that function that called the current one
But honestly i would have grabbed the pointerscan myself

Qvintus · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 07 Nov 2013 Posts: 32

I see, thanks a lot for your input! I've become rather fond of the pointer scan by now, seem to get the jobs done almost every time.