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[Haarlock]

I'm trying to memory scan some values I want to change, but the game in question has an odd scheme for it. When I went hunting for advice, the most promising bit I found was this:

"It's float data. Search as double." (this guy was a bit of a dick and never bothered to clarify it).

As someone who doesn't manage computer programming all that well, I think that means I need to select GROUPED value type, then GENERATE GROUPSCAN COMMAND with FLOATING and DOUBLE. Still can't make it work though, so if anyone can clarify this I'd appreciate it.

[hhhuut]

Choose "double" as value type (not grouped)

[Haarlock]

[hhhuut]

Best use float and double with one of the "Rounded" options (not "Trucated").

But if you see the ingame value as "9953", then you can start searching for "9953" (except you already know that there's some xor)

[Haarlock]

[hhhuut]

No, the scan type can't be changed durin a scan. So if you've reason to believe that the in-game value is stored as a double, then you scan for double ...

[++METHOS]

Or, just scan for all value types...problem fixed.

[ParkourPenguin]

There are two main types of numbers to a computer: integers and floating point numbers. Integers are self-explanatory; they store numbers without decimal points and can be signed or unsigned. Byte, 2 byte, 4 byte, and 8 byte are all valid integer data types. The difference between them is that the more bytes you use to store the number, the greater maximum number you can store. 1 byte = 0-255, 2 byte = 0-65535, etc.

Floating point numbers are numbers that can have a decimal point. There are two main types of floating point numbers: single-precision (aka "float") and double-precision (aka "double"). Unlike integers, floating point numbers aren't always absolutely precise- they're approximations. Technically, they store the number as a series of powers of 2 with the exponents as a sequence of consecutive integers (bits determine which terms to include in the sum). So trying to store a number like 1/3 perfectly is impossible.

Thus, the single-precision floating point data type is for numbers which don't require that much precision (and thus take up less space). On the other hand, the double-precision floating point data type is for numbers which require a greater precision (but they take up more space).

[Haarlock]

You all have been really helpful and I've learned some new stuff, so this isn't entirely wasted. But I still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, so I'm going to bite the bullet and go for full disclosure.

I'm trying to manipulate the Faction points in Grim Dawn, because ever since I aided the Outcast, the requirements for the Black Legion have changed so that I can't get points for them except by quests and bounties. However, I am barely 100 points above friendly with them, which means I can't use bounties and there's no combination of quests that will give enough points to raise me to respected when the bounties become available again.

As a test run, I've been attempting to manipulate my Rover standing, which now sits at 9993 points.

So if anyone more proficient with CE than me reading this knows what formula I need to manipulate the faction points, that would be appreciated.

In the meantime, I'll hunt through the forums to see what I can find.

EDIT: most of the grim dawn stuff from the search is trainer crap that I use an alternate trainer for.

[ParkourPenguin]

Just do the first few steps of the tutorial. It's located under the "help" menu of CE. It'll show you how to search for values even if you don't know what they are. If you need more help, there's this topic.