Cheat Engine

[caval]

Hello,

I am a dev, but new to memory reading with CE.
I am looking for the entity list, the list of combat enemy.

Tweaking in-game with enemy health, I have found they share a similar structure, but looking at their base address, I dont see the the "contiguous array pattern".
So the enemies are not stored next to each other.

Now, I have the assumption that a list exists where I could find the pointer to each one of these known address.

How could I scan for that ?

Maybe I can memory dump, and scan for regex pattern having all those address ? Or maybe CE has some feature that resemble my need

[caval]

Actually, I think the best way to solve this problem is:

find a combat against a single enemy.
find the address that the game writes to when enemy health decreases.
Pointer scan for "object's base address enemy + health offset"

and then, I assume that for next multi-enemy fights, This pointer should point to the first enemy of any other combat


I tried this but...
I do not get a single relevant viable pointer: when restarting games, they seem dead.
Weird because I have a viable main character pointer health though, alongside other main character combat infos. There might some weird game logic where base enemy pointer might change based on random stuff, maybve some obfuscation technique idk.


I thought about an idea. Since I know the structure of objects,
What if I could have some kind of hook to catch newly created instances of object based on specific offsets to which there are specific values I can predict ?
Therefore, since I know when enemies objects are instantiated, i could catch their instanciation somehow ?
That would be awesome. Maybe this usecase is very specific though

[CassiOwOpeia]

You should look at the pointers manually.

You've found the enemy health address : look at the instructions that write to this address. You could find either something like :

[caval]

thank you, figured out assembly degugging was the best way to go, with the data structure dissect its very good