thegroundbelowme
How do I cheat?
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 Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 2:58 pm Post subject: Something like main.lua, but runs on close of cheat engine? |
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SOLVED
Edit: and of course I just found the `onClose` method. Never mind!
Edit2: And I still can't get it to work. Un-never mind, please. See latest update at the bottom of this post.
I'm trying to do something that I *think* requires me to use an LUA script to kill an external process when cheat engine closes. I'm not sure this is possible though, or that there isn't another way, so let me explain what I'm doing.
What I *want* to do is run a dedicated server for enshrouded as a service on my windows machine, and I want to have a couple of tweaks applied to it when it runs. I can easily make any given process into a service using nssm (can't post a link, the "non-sucking service manager"), and I know how to launch the server, open the table I want, and apply the tweaks I want all via the script/command line. The problem comes when I want to stop the server. Because shellExecute doesn't open the server as a child process (and I can't find a way to make it), stopping the service just closes cheat engine, but leaves the dedicated server running. So either I need a way to have cheat engine execute a script right before it closes, or I need a way to launch the dedicated server as a child process. Or maybe there's a third option, I dunno.
Suggestions?
In case it matters, here's what I'm trying
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shellExecute([["G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\EnshroudedServer\enshrouded_server.exe"]]);
getAutoAttachList().add('enshrouded_server.exe')
function onOpenProcess(pid)
local t=createTimer();
t.OnInterval=20000
t.OnTimer=function(x)
local a1=getAddressList()
a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('By Atamg').Active=true
a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('level_cap').Active=true
local maxLvl=a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('max_lvl')
maxLvl.Active=true
maxLvl.NumericalValue=50
a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('exp_multipler').Active=true
local expMult=a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('multipler_exp')
expMult.Active=true
expMult.NumericalValue=2
x.destroy()
end
local MainOnClose=MainForm.OnClose
MainForm.OnClose = function(...)
os.execute("taskkill -im"..pid)
closeCE()
return caFree
end
end
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Progress update:
Well, I've gotten it to close, but I get an error when it happens. I found a thread (still can't link, thread Id was 606893) that talked about the problem, but it doesn't seem to be exactly what I'm after, which is basically just doing this for a single .ct file. I tried all of the variations on the methods, and the only thing that actually got the server to close was DB's suggestion of | Code: | | executeCode('Exit') |
. Unfortunately, when I do that, I then get a "nearby allocation error" exception dialog, and I don't understand why. I tried disabling all of the active cheats before closing, just in case that helped, but it didn't make a difference.
Not sure why this works and the other stuff I tried threw that error, but this is what I wound up with that seems to be working correctly:
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local path = [["G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\EnshroudedServer\enshrouded_server.exe"]];
function openExe(...)
local before = getProcessList();
shellExecute(...);
local after = getProcessList();
for k,v in pairs(after) do
if not before[k] then return k,v end
end
end
function onOpenProcess(pid)
local t = createTimer();
local a1;
local maxLvl;
local expMult;
t.OnInterval = 20000;
t.OnTimer = function(x)
a1 = getAddressList();
a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('By Atamg').Active = true;
a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('level_cap').Active = true;
maxLvl = a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('max_lvl');
maxLvl.Active = true;
maxLvl.NumericalValue = 50;
a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('exp_multipler').Active = true;
expMult = a1.getMemoryRecordByDescription('multipler_exp');
expMult.Active = true;
expMult.NumericalValue = 2;
x.destroy();
end
end
local MainOnClose=MainForm.OnClose;
MainForm.OnClose = function(...)
executeCode('Exit')
return MainOnClose(...)
end
-- Now actually do stuff
local PID = openExe(path);
openProcess('enshrouded_server.exe')
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