Cheat Engine

++METHOS · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 4:49 am Post subject:

Currently, it seems that you are not really doing anything with your script. It will help for us to understand what it is that you are trying to do, as some solutions may not be suitable. As you say, some methods may freeze the process, which is usually not ideal.

You can incorporate a timer. This will allow the target process to continue executing code, without freezing on you.

Unless you want to use Lua, this may require injecting at an instruction that gets accessed constantly. You can simply create a flag that will trigger the timer, then have the timer count down until it reaches 0, at which point, another flag can be set that will instruct the program to jump to the code where you will manipulate something.

Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, and the nature of it, you may use the target's built-in code to trigger the timer (based on a specific value or event that is reached etc.), or, you can set up a manual trigger to initialize the timer yourself.

potentialunexplored · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 06 Mar 2023 Posts: 8

Hi ++METHOS! Thanks for your reply,
Function I'm editing controls entities' physics behavior. This chunk of code in particular disengages entities from physics engine. The goal is to make certain type of entities stay engaged for longer, while every other type would get handled as usual. Oh yeah and this instruction runs constantly as soon as entity gets engaged.

Thus, by doing compare I isolated the type I needed, for which the value at [ecx+30] equals 1. What's left is to just add delay, and apparently it's a whole thing.

I'm not opposed to lua per se but a) it'll take a while to get accustomed, b) ultimately I plan to modify the .dll permanently and right now I'm not sure how well that's gonna go over using lua.

Mind sharing an example of what this timer would look like?

++METHOS · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 6:38 am Post subject:

What is the actual, original code? Is it this, or has this been modified?:

++METHOS · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 7:20 am Post subject:

You may need to select an injection point that will give you control over which entities are reset, or, make use of multiple injection points. If commenting out the original code will do the trick, then maybe this injection point can be used.

You should be able to find the instruction that actually does the resetting. With said instruction, you should be able to filter out any entities that you do not want to be affected. I would look/step inside one of the calls to see if there is anything viable.

Either way, for a delay/timer you could structure it like the following (I have not thoroughly checked or tested this):

potentialunexplored · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 06 Mar 2023 Posts: 8

Yeah I don't think that's gonna work, since there are a lot of objects engaging & disengaging with the physics engine simultaneously.

I don't have a lot of experience but I guess I expected Assembly to not be so effing adverse to timers for some reason.

Anyhoo. I'll scour the net & see how lua timer works out & report back

++METHOS · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:29 am Post subject:

Did you try the script?

Even if there are many objects interacting with the engine, you should still be able to filter them out. Using Lua may not help much unless you can find a way to filter out what you want while also applying a timer to the appropriate function.

There may also be other ways.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 11:25 am Post subject:

potentialunexplored · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 06 Mar 2023 Posts: 8