Cheat Engine

[Hazzper]

Hello.

I'm working on a little trainer. I've found the addresses where enemy's health is stored, and I only want to see the values, without modifying them.
I can view the values in the cheat table, but a trainer that displays them would be better as I wouldn't need to open CE, load the cheat table and target the process every time I want to see enemy health.

Is there a way to make the trainer only display the current enemy health?

[Psy]

I don't believe you can do this with Cheat Engine's in-built trainer maker. You would have to look into coding your own trainer and using something like ReadProcessMemory to load the value into a field in the trainer, so you can see it.

~Psy

[Hazzper]

Thanks for the info. I thought so. Too bad I know nothing about coding my own trainers. Is there any chance some other trainer making utility has such an option?

[Psy]

I haven't used trainer-makers in some time now... I don't think TMK can do that, but you might want to look into GTS (game trainer studio). I hear its quite extensible these days. Check my Gamehacking Tools sticky in the general gamehacking section for tool links

~Psy

[random5566]

It's too bad CE can't do this because alot of rpg games would benefit from this. Editing stats, spell levels and stuff. Maybe if we moan about it, from time to time, Dark Byte might eventually implement it into CE 5.5
Downside : Executables made by CE might just be a little bigger.

[Hazzper]

I tried GTS 2.0.0 and it appears to have the feature I need. Unfortunately, when I try to compile the executable it gives me compiling errors. Does anyone know what may cause that?

[Psy]

Depends on what the errors are doesn't it, lol!

[Hazzper]

It just says there are errors compiling it, nothing more. How can I know more about the problem?

[Psy]

Maybe check this out:

http://www.gamehacking.com/forums/trainer-makers/7977-game-trainer-studio-2-0-spore-trainer.html

[Labyrnth]

[random5566]

Yeah Labrynth, but he wants to make a trainer (I guess it's more professional looking) as opposed to opening Cheat Engine and loading up a CT. The design layout interface of CE's trainer making window, specifically the cheatlist or cheat controls forces the user to either freeze a value or set and freeze a value. There's no option to 'Only display a value of an address' which is what Hazzper is asking. I guess a more useful option would be to 'Use default value and allow user to set value later'. The default value being whatever the game sets in that address.

[Psy]

Yeah CheatEngine does use that API, of course it does. Otherwise it wouldn't display half of its memory-related stuff. But the point is, its not available for the user to use directly on a created trainer. IE. the user cannot have the trainer reading values from memory all the time for the different variables. You can have a value field to let the user manually input a value when the hotkey is pressed, but thats its limit as far as that 'display' goes.

~Psy

[Labyrnth]

The point is, if we wanted to use CE for this it would have to be a CT.
Or code a trainer yourself using the api.

[Hazzper]

Oh well, Game Trainer Studio did the job and it works just fine, if I don't count a graphic bug I came upon. Thanks for pointing that thread out.

The link in Psych's sticky thread about game hacking tools leads to GTS's 1.6 version while there is a 2.0 version out, why don't you update it?

[grasmanek94]

and how do i make those pointers into GTS ? if i open an example project of spore then i make a pointer adress and click addd but i see a wrong value...