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[lylcheat]

My online game is using isometric projection (i.e. just like Diablo II) and the map is divided into square tiles each represented by (x,y) coord.

I can easily locate the memory for the (x,y) coord of the player since its value is displayed on the game screen. But I want to go a step further by identifying the content of a tile (e.g. if it is occupied by a monster or other player) of any given coord.

Can anyone give me some hint as how should I start with this. This is quite different from searching for just a given (x,y) value as the map probably represented by some complex data structure in memory.

[Monkeys]

Well, one way of doing it would be looking in the game files.
MOST of the games keep their maps stored in the game files (Diablo stores a generator -_-), so looking it up in there could be possible, but it's rather hard.


Another way would be looking for a changing content of a tile, and you know how to look for a changing value
A changing content could be: When you change maps. Perhaps the same adress is used for the previous x,y tile as this x,y tile.
Or a tile that you can change yourself. This is rather hard to explain, and hardly ever works though (often only applies a mask onto your tile)