In this tutorial Ill go through the process of locating base pointers in memory to get the MP and HP of my character in a game, to use inside Blue Eye.
Why would you want to read values from memory?
Well, lets say you want to create a macro that will keep an eye on your HP to either give you a warning, or perhaps trigger a spell to heal yourself while your AFK, or perhaps your creating a complete hunting bot, which will obviously need a way of knowing whats going on inside the game.
In these cases it makes sense to read the information directly from memory, as an alternative to analyzing the colors / patterns of pixels on the screen.
Whats the benefits from reading it from memory instead of using color operations to detect whats going on?
Reading from memory is a lot faster than analyzing screen colors, also it will still work even if the game is minimized or behind other windows.
What does "base pointer" mean, and why do I need it?
When you locate a memory address using cheat engine, e.g. for your HP, then the address of this value will most likely change every time you restart the game. This is caused by the way windows allocates memory to every process that is started.
A base pointer is the pointer in the process, which points to the correct address in memory always, meaning instead of saving the address in memory, we need to find and save the pointer, which holds a value pointing to the correct address, even after the game is restarted.
Some pointers point to other pointers, which then point to the actual address.
In cheat engine base pointers are displayed in Green text.
Please see the following video, where I show and describe every step of the process.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZw9CrGUXAE
After watching the movie, in case you still wonder how I knew the offsets for the Max MP and Max HP addresses, it was simply a matter of calculating them, since browsing the memory region showed that these addresses was located just a few blocks away, all I had to do was add 4 hexadecimals per block.
Hexadecimals: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
So for instance knowing that my HP is stored at the address: 1A405F78, I can can tell from browsing the memory region that my MP is stored in the very next block, since the sizes of each of these blocks are set to 4, I only need to add 4 to the offset.
Now the offset of my HP was 278, and 278 + 4 = 27C.
(278 + 1 = 279, +1 = 27A, +1 = 27B, +1 = 27C)
Good luck searching your memory for useful information!
And enjoy
