Cheat Engine

[Dark Byte]

Here's a pointer that gives you the health address of the currently selected object

[Dark Byte]

following pointers seems to be pretty reliable for max units in campaign and skirmish

[geminihc]

thanks! did you figure out how to do instant build ?

I found the address (it goes from 0 to 100, 100 meaning 100% built), as a float value.

found up to 3 levels in pointers but came up with way too many pointer address and couldnt find the base pointer (green one)

any advice would be appreciated!

[Dark Byte]

Next time you find it, do a pointerscan for it (max offset 2048-level 5, no stop when static has found is my default)
And since you already know the last 2 offsets, that might speed it up by inputting them manually
(tip: have at least 4GB of diskspace free)

Currently I can't run C&C4 (crashes as soon as the chat window opens) probably have to reboot or reinstall, so can't scan it myself

[geminihc]

thanks for the tip. i tried it , but it found wayy too many again (over 2000)

would "try to find base pointer" (when right click on the address) work well in this case? i tried to enter the original memory address, but gives an error on scan.

[Dark Byte]

why do I have to repeat this every single time?
I probably have to make this a tutorial step, just not sure how to do that
Also, 2000 is nothing, you usually end up with 200000000+


After a pointerscan, restart the game (reboot is better) and do a rescan for the new pointer, repeat this a few time, and finally pick one that you think is the best one

as for try to find the base pointer only works on a pointer that is wrong (but correct offsets), but not sure what the error is you got


alternatively, if you can find out if it's the player or comp you could do code injection to set it to 100

[Dark Byte]

ok, I managed to start up c&c4 and found the build timer.
Looks like it'll be different for each new unit, which might get a bit tricky to find. But i'll see if I can find something

edit1:
down to 250000 results, (in pointerscan terms that's really very little)
Currently playing a match so will so the restart later to filter out the other wrong ones

edit2:
down to 2500 after a save/reload
Possible pointer:

[Dark Byte]

after a restart at 995 pointers, that's about the most I'll be able to filter out, but the pointers are good enough to use.

The pointer I gave in the previous post is still one of the valid ones as well (reason I picked it: It has the lowest level and smallest offsets)

Freezing it to 100 has the requested effect

added bonus: It allows you to go over the pop cap

[geminihc]

sorry i'm quite a noob.. how exactly can i use your code?

can i just add a pointer with the address 00E605C8 and then those offsets? if u could link me to a relavent guide that would be awesome.

[Dark Byte]

copy it into your clipboard and then paste it into ce's table

[geminihc]

thanks, i got it in the table, didnt think it was so simple lol. BUT i couldnt seem to get it working, when looking into the pointer , alot of them resolevs into ???????.

just curious, i wonder if if the pointer i found command points work for you (it works for me)?

[Dark Byte]

a lot or all ?

also, I'm using the europe version (and legal with patches), not sure if there's a difference

I'll check it out

nope, command points returns ????????

guess it's a different version

anyhow, the offsets are probably valid, so try a pointerscan for those offsets

[geminihc]

to clarify, all:[/img]

[Dark Byte]

also, you said you have the option "try to find base pointer". What version of Cheat Engine do you have? If it'sn ot 5.6, I don't recommend using the pointerscan, it's slooooow

[geminihc]

yeh.. im surprised u found it so fast.. im using 5.5 and its slooow. ill try with 5.6.

just curious also, is there a tutorial specifically for using pointer scan?