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Bit Byte
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:42 am Post subject: Same Address different value? Why?

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local TeamIdAddress1 = getAddress('[[[[game.exe+01CBBBF0]+60]+338]+38]+A0')

local baseAddress = getAddress('game.exe+01CBBBF0')
local TeamIdAddress2 = getAddress(baseAddress + 0x60 + 0x338 + 0x38 + 0xA0)

print("TeamIdAddress1:", TeamIdAddress1)
print("TeamIdAddress2:", TeamIdAddress2)

I am getting different values at print for TeamIdAddress1 & TeamIdAddress2.
Why is that? Aren't both the same exact address?

Can someone explain and help me understand.

ParkourPenguin
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:13 am Post subject:

Pointers don't work that way. A pointer is a value type that stores another address.

Square brackets mean "the pointer value stored at this address"

Code:

local TeamIdAddress1 = getAddress'[[[[game.exe+01CBBBF0]+60]+338]+38]+A0'
local TeamIdAddress2 = readPointer(readPointer(readPointer(readPointer'game.exe+1CBBBF0'+0x60)+0x338)+0x38)+0xA0

assert(TeamIdAddress1 == TeamIdAddress2)

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Bit Byte
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:01 am Post subject:

Something new learnt. Thank you.

So In this example:

Code:

'[[[[game.exe+01CBBBF0]+60]+338]+38]+A0'

Does it mean there are 5 pointers one pointing to the next until it comes to the final address?

ParkourPenguin
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:29 am Post subject:

There are 4 pointers. Example:

Code:

pointer -> value
1: [game.exe+01CBBBF0] -> 415C69AE0
2: [415C69AE0 + 60] -> 298145E00
3: [298145E00 + 338] -> 417BB14C0
4: [417BB14C0 + 38] -> 1C849EA08

final address (can be any type): 1C849EA08 + A0 = 1C849EAA8

The first pointer is the base address. The next 3 pointers are nodes. The final result is the address the pointer path points to.
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Bit Byte
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:15 am Post subject:

Code:

local xStepSequence = {0x0, 0x8, 0x10, 0x18, 0x20, 0x28, 0x30, 0x38, 0x40, 0x48, 0x50, 0x58, 0x60}

for PIndex, PxOffset in ipairs(xStepSequence) do
local TeamIdAddress2 = readPointer(readPointer(readPointer(readPointer'game.exe+1CBBBF0'+0x60)+0x338)+PxOffset)+0xA0
end

As you can see above when i used PxOffset to replace a certain offset (3rd one here) it works but when I use it similarly like this:

local TeamIdAddress1 = getAddress'[[[[game.exe+01CBBBF0]+60]+338]+PxOffset]+A0'

why doesn't it work?

Another question I have is that I learnt from you using getAddressSafe to counter errors for nil values. How would I do that in this case:

Code:

readPointer(readPointer(readPointer(readPointer'game.exe+1CBBBF0'+0x60)+0x338)+PxOffset)+0xA0

There is no readPointerSafe is there?

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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:52 am Post subject:

Because getAddress requires a string literal.

Code:

local TeamIdAddress1 = getAddress('[[[[game.exe+01CBBBF0]+60]+338]+' .. string.format('%X', PxOffset) .. ']+A0')

ParkourPenguin
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:16 pm Post subject:

Code:

local my_var = 5
print(my_var) -- prints "5"
print('my_var') -- prints "my_var", not 5

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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:59 am Post subject:

Ok, thank you, I got it to work.

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