Cheat Engine

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When dissecting data structures I've noticed it doesn't show all the offsets. Say, I found my health address at [ecx+00000039] and wanted to find enemy health addresses plus any other information I can in those structures (ie mana addresses) I could dissect whatever [ecx] is for myself and some enemies. To find my and the enemy health addresses I would find offset 39 in the [ecx] structure, but sometimes the offset just isn't listed there. It will have something like:

> 002F
> 0030
> 0038
> 0040
> 0048
> 004C

It's easy enough to get around this by starting with the offset I want but I'm curious why the dissect structure list seems to skip around a bit with the offsets.

Here is a URL to part of a video that can serve as an example if you aren't sure what I mean:

youtu.be/nR7ub4_9vrY?t=403

[Zanzer]

39 is such an odd offset and Cheat Engine can only guess data types based on their value.
Addresses are normally type-aligned, meaning they're often a multiple of 4.

Based on your list of offsets, I have to assume Cheat Engine guessed that bytes 38 through 3F consisted of a double.

In the video, Cheat Engine skipped over offset 78 simply because it thought offset 74 was a double.
A double is an 8-byte value, meaning it covered both offsets 74 and 78.

Everything is just a guess based on value ranges and whether the number would make sense to a human.

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Ah, thank you very much. That makes sense. I've been wondering about that for a while now.

And yeah, I made up the example I listed with 39 being the offset. In the video I believe offset 78 was a float. It's one of those games where 1 is full health and it decreases to 0 as you are damaged.

[Dark Byte]

yeah, it's just a guess.
but you can just add offset 78 manually and set it as a float. There is no rule that entries can't overlap so you can just do that (you can even have the same offset multiple times)