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How to find the pointer path to a string?

 
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heyimyuuta
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:03 pm    Post subject: How to find the pointer path to a string? Reply with quote

Lets say I have en entity object with the base address of the entity being at 0x14000.
The struct of the entity object has a size of 0x4000 containing several things like name, health, position etc.

If I search for my entity name "Player1" within cheat engine, I find the name and the address of that name.
Since I can't directly find the name within the entity object structure, I guess that there is a pointer path that points to the name within my entity object structure.
Now what I want to do is, find the pointer path within that entity object struct, that points to that name / address.

I already tried the Structure Spider method for that and while that works great for smaller structures with less pointers, it takes a looooooong time when I for example use Max Level 5 and Structsize 16,384 (0x4000) which literally would take days.

So I wonder if there is a different and faster method to find the address or string pointer path within an object stucture?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No- just the structure spider. Try a lower max level (2 or 3) and maybe size (4096; manually adjust start).

There's no guarantee your assumption is correct in the first place. Try the pointer scanner instead.

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