Cheat Engine

[Hayjamieoliver]

A hack I am currently making concerns a certain value from each of up to 23 AI, which can be either 1 or 2. Half of the AI will be one, the other half two (the last one depends on what the player is) I currently have a pointer for every single AI, with the difference in the final offset being 8 in decimal (so in hex it does 100, 108, 110, 118, 120, etc). I have a separate pointer that always points to the address of the player's number.

The issue is based around two things:

- I want to be able to have a hotkey that when pressed, takes the value of each and every address pointed to by their respective pointer, and compares it to the number of the player.

- IF it is not the same, it will change it to the same as that of the player

- Once a different hotkey (or the same one, doesn't matter) is pressed, ONLY the changed values revert back to what they once were. Otherwise I would just set a hotkey that changes all of them to either 1 or 2 depending on what key I press.


I have basic knowledge of LUA, but I find assembly a bit confusing to be honest, and I'm not sure how to write lua scripts that access pointers from one's cheat table, let alone change them.

I would look it up, but most videos involving lua scripting seem to involve making trainers which is not much use to me.

[ParkourPenguin]

[Hayjamieoliver]

Thank you very much! I assume if the final address is not used it won't cause a crash? The reason I ask is because there are options to reduce the number of AI, and that quite often causes some addresses not to be used (I.e the one with offset 110, 118 and 128 are used, but 120 is not).

It's great that people here are so helpful

[ParkourPenguin]

[Hayjamieoliver]

Okay, so I have tried using the script, but it doesn't seem to have any effect, so I figure I should just list everywhere where I'm unsure:

1: This is used by going to Table->Show Cheat Table Lua script, correct?

2: The initial address used by the pointers has quotation marks around the name of the game, whilst your example does not. I'm not sure if this is needed.

3: It is not the last, but rather the second offset which changes by 8 in decimal. I tried to resolve this by adding the remaining offsets later as seen below.

4: The VK_F4 means the script is bound to F4 the key I assume, I'm not sure what VK_Menu means.

Here's my modification:

[ParkourPenguin]

1: Yes. Click on "Execute" to execute the code. Make sure you destroy the previous hotkeys if you execute the script more than once. I.e. put this at the beginning:

[Hayjamieoliver]

[ParkourPenguin]

string.format uses the same format specifiers as ISO C sprintf.

You were correct in your second assessment (assuming those other offsets are correct). If it still doesn't work, debug the code. E.g. put print statements at certain places in the code that provide information as to what the script is doing.

P.S.: you still haven't changed the key codes.

[Hayjamieoliver]

Oh okay, where would it output the printed text?


I have yet to change the key codes because I want it to work before I bother changing what key activates the code.

[ParkourPenguin]

Output from print is shown in the Lua engine console. If any print statement is executed, that window is shown. If it isn't showing up, you aren't printing anything.

I highly doubt you're actually pressing alt + F4 to execute the hotkey. If you were, you should be having other problems. I made the script that way because I don't like people copying and pasting code without knowing what it does.

[Hayjamieoliver]

welp uh


yeeeah I actually was pressing one or the other. I didn't realise it was alt AND f4 rather than alt or f4. My bad.

EDIT: okay, so I actually ran the script now, but I'm getting the following errors:

[ParkourPenguin]

Make sure you're using the code I said was correct.

[Hayjamieoliver]

[ParkourPenguin]

Square brackets need to be balanced.

[Hayjamieoliver]

Oh, that was just a remnant of when I added a bracket. The error message has not changed though. :/