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[slickplaid]

I am attempting to find the pointer to a value in a game.

I've gone through the tutorial by following a tutorial (yo, dawg...) in this forum and everything sounds very straightforward, but for some reason I'm getting stuck at the most trivial part of finding the pointer to this value.

The game I'm trying to work on is RimWorld.

The metal value starts at 500. I can search and find that value every time, change it and the changes reflect in the game.

When I go to search for addresses that write to this value I get:
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Now, when I take the value of EAX (0FDC5E00) and search for it using Hex, Exact Value, Value Type=4 Bytes I get no results.

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Anyone have suggestions on where to go from here? I've tried pinning it down using the pointer scanner (ran it over night, 6 depth @ 2048) and worked from there following several tutorials, but it still yielded no pointers. Most iterations worked towards having no results. The few that did yield results gave hundreds of results after multiple iterations, with no reduction in result numbers.

Not sure if this is any helpful information but if I NOP that opcode, it allows me to build anything but the workers just sit idle. As soon as I restore that opcode, they go right back to what they were doing. The address I find is different for every game, but doesn't change once you're playing which I believe is normal, but could be useful information

[zm0d]

Hi

take a look at the upper LEA instruction
Set a breakpoint there and note the content of EAX. ESI*4+10 is your offset.
Now scan again with your new EAX value

Edit: You didnt find this with the scanner, because the value you were looking for, is not a part of a pointer chain

[slickplaid]

Sounds like I need to brush up on my ASM rather than following tutorials on what I think is the problem.

Thank you! I'll report back with my findings once I finish work here.

[zm0d]

Good luck, mate!