How to make an assembly code run manually

[Mr. Alien]

So, I was thinking on making a code where with the press of a button, I'll transfer my character's max health value into their current health value. I already got the pointers for both values (involving quite the hellish AOB shenanigans, I might add).

Originally, I wanted to make it happen automatically after every battle, hijacking an opcode that seems to be active every time a battle ends (replacing the register's value in a mov function) But I tried fiddling with it and the game crashes as a result.

It's the same principle with multiplying a value with a button, I guess, which I always wanted since I hate opening calculator every time.

I know you can just tell CE to allocate some unused memory space for my code, but I don't know how the game will get to that code. Or rather, the game should have nothing to do with the code altogether to prevent crashes.

Maybe you have to use Lua to do it? I know nothing about that unfortunately.

[TimFun13]

Sounds like you might have injected into shared code.

But to run code use "createThread".
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[SunBeam]

I have a feeling his game is created with Unity Engine, which then will bring into discussion other aspects/issues. Thus not that simple to find an injection spot to his understanding, let alone use a thread with Lua without attaching/detaching to the mono thread to avoid crashes. Could you name your game?

[GreenHouse]

. . .

You don't even need to do any of that. The easiest thing that anyone with basic knowledge could do is to use the basic aobscan template to create a script in a function that constantly accesses the base address of the character. Inside it create another alloc/registersymbol (1 byte is enough), and add a cmp at the beginning to compare that alloc.
Add that alloc into the address list, and give it the hotkey that you want. Like change 0 to 1 when pressing F1. Really basic code example:

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alloc(run,1)
registersymbol(run)

newmem:
cmp byte ptr [run],01
jne code
mov byte ptr [run],00
DO HEALTH SHENANIGANS HERE. Like 'mov' max health to the current health.

code:
bla bla bla

Just add that into the basic script that the template creates.

[Mr. Alien]

Thanks a lot! I never thought about that!

Though I tried the code and it didn't work. Probably because my hp switch code is faulty. You're supposed to do it like this, right?

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push ax
mov ax,[base]+123
mov [base]+234,ax
pop ax

The [base] being the base address that points to the values, plus the offset.

I think that might be wrong since the value of [base] is just the address it's pointing to (addresses of max and current health). Meanwhile, I want to move not that address, but the value it has.

So, maybe I should've made something like this instead?

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push ax
push bx
mov ax,[base]+123
mov bx,[ax]
mov [base]+234,bx
pop bx
pop ax

The value is just two byte so I use the 16 bit registers.

[TimFun13]

Thanks a lot! I never thought about that!

Though I tried the code and it didn't work. Probably because my hp switch code is faulty. You're supposed to do it like this, right?

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push ax
mov ax,[base]+123
mov [base]+234,ax
pop ax

The [base] being the base address that points to the values, plus the offset.

I think that might be wrong since the value of [base] is just the address it's pointing to (addresses of max and current health). Meanwhile, I want to move not that address, but the value it has.

So, maybe I should've made something like this instead?

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push ax
push bx
mov ax,[base]+123
mov bx,[ax]
mov [base]+234,bx
pop bx
pop ax

The value is just two byte so I use the 16 bit registers.

You need to iterate through the pointer. So more like this:

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push rax
mov rax,[base]
test rax,rax
jz @f
	mov ax,[rax+123]
	mov [rax+234],ax
@@:
pop rax

If these were not just example offsets then you might look at the first one as I would expect a word value (2 bytes) to have an offset that's divisible by 2. And always push and pop the full registry, if you look at what CE actually assembles you'd see it does the full registry and not the sub registries.

[SunBeam]

So which game is this about, again?..

[Eric]

You don't need scripting for this
Since you have both pointers add them as memoryrecords to the table
then give currentHealth a hotkey that 'sets value' and give it as value

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(description of record with max value)

(make sure to include the round braces)

also, you can multiply a value by 8 by setting it's value to

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value*8