Cheat Engine

[oshietekudasai]

Hi everyone. I'm quite new to cheat engine and memory stuff, but I've started doing some reading so please be gentle.

I'm trying to make a simple bot for a game. Right now, I'm just trying to retrieve all the monsters on the map (their positions, health, whatnot). I am able to get the x,y coordinates of a single monster. Unfortunately, I couldn't seem to find some sort of pointer that points to all the other monsters, so I just tried checking what "accesses this address" and check if that opcode accesses other addresses as well. This gave me a bunch of addresses that refer to the coordinates of all the monsters I see on the screen. My problem with this approach is that I only get new addresses whenever a monster moves (since that's the only time x,y changes), so I can't really get all the monsters on the screen in an instant.

What approach do people usually do when trying something like this? Also, do all games have some sort of pointer that points to all the monsters, or do some games don't bother structuring the monsters at all (scattered around)?

[Rydian]

Do a pointer scan on a few of the monster addresses and see the point where they diverge?

And it depends on the game, some games consider monsters their own class of things with their own functions and stuff, others don't and lump them in with other stuff.