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Reading AA Registered Symbols in Lua

 
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:48 am    Post subject: Reading AA Registered Symbols in Lua Reply with quote
I looked around and read some stuff and everything I can think of me doing is correct, so at this point I'm stumped.

Situation: I have a registered symbol in AA called ConsumablesBase along with an allocation of the same name. The symbol's value is an address, so ConsumablesBase is essentially a pointer. I am attempting to read that pointer or extract the value and then get the value of that address with offset 10F. My issue is that Lua is returning completely wrong addresses and values.

Lua is returning these values (I tried with different formatting just incase):
ConsumeablesBase Address formatted with string format: 7ff652670016
ConsumeablesBase Address formatted with DEC_HEX function: 7FF652670016
ConsumeablesBase Address not formatted, output in integer: 140695921164310 <= this one in hex is the same as the two above.
ConsumeablesBase's Value formatted to Hex: 7BB7F807598

Cheat engine when putting these ConsumeablesBase as an address into the table:

Address: 7FF652660013
Value: 000007BB7FB486D8

Thanks in advance for any helpful insight on what might be happening.

Here is my code

Code:

[enable]
{$lua}
function DEC_HEX(IN)
    local B,K,OUT,I,D=16,"0123456789ABCDEF","",0
    while IN>0 do
        I=I+1
        IN,D=math.floor(IN/B),math.mod(IN,B)+1
        OUT=string.sub(K,D,D)..OUT
    end
    return OUT
end
local HpAddress
HpAddressStringFormat = string.format( '%x', GetAddress("ConsumeablesBase") )
HpAddressDEC_HEX = DEC_HEX( GetAddress("ConsumeablesBase") )
HpAddressDecRaw = GetAddress("ConsumeablesBase")
HpAddressValue = DEC_HEX( readQword("ConsumeablesBase") )
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It would be helpful if you had the AA script that initializes the symbol. I'm assuming it goes something like this:
Code:
newmem:
  // original code:
  mov [edi+10F],eax
  // your code:
  mov [ConsumablesBase],edi
  jmp return

godsblight wrote:
The symbol's value is an address, so ConsumablesBase is essentially a pointer. I am attempting to read that pointer or extract the value and then get the value of that address with offset 10F.
...

Cheat engine when putting these ConsumeablesBase as an address into the table:

Address: 7FF652660013
Value: 000007BB7FB486D8
You recognize it's a pointer and it has one offset of 10F. Treat it like it's a pointer with an offset of 10F.
When you click on "add address", click the "pointer" checkbox, put "ConsumablesBase" for the base address, and put "10F" for the offset.
Lua equivalent:
Code:
print(getAddressSafe'[ConsumablesBase]+10F')
print(readInteger'[ConsumablesBase]+10F')

-- more explicit:
print(readInteger(readPointer'ConsumablesBase'+0x10F))


Also:
Code:
function DEC_HEX(IN)
    return ('%X'):format(IN)
end
Lua has operators for integer division ("//") and modulus ("%") too.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
keep in mind that lua executes before the AA script, so if you do the registering of the symbol in the SAME script, you're not going to get the current address
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for all the help. I must have been super tired when I was trying to do this, because I was looking at the wrong base address. Embarassed

@ParkourPenguin - thanks for the advice and letting me know about the string operators.

@Dark Byte - I had read that somewhere before, so I made sure that the LUA script is a child entry of the ASM script so the symbols get registered before hand, otherwise I know to use the AutoAssemble[[code here]] block in LUA. Don't know if there is a better way or other way besides doing that or putting the ASM in a code block beforehand and calling the AutoAssemble method in LUA
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