Cheat Engine

[Filipe_Br]

When you call a Lua function from D3DHook somehow a function is executed in the target process.
I tried looking at the source of the Cheat Engine, but there are so many files on D3DHook that I got lost.

[Dark Byte]

It uses a shared memory object.
that memory blocks contains a list of of textures and a list of render commands.
when the game renders a frame it first makes sure that the textures are loaded as well, and then it follows the render commands (e.g place texture 1 at position x,y with rotation r)

[Filipe_Br]

But when you call the function "createTextContainer" for example. The version of this function that was written in pascal, is in the memory of the game or the Cheat Engine?
If it is in memory of the Cheat Engine itself, then I think I will have to change my OpenGL Hook dll a lot.

[Dark Byte]

No, the code written in pascal is not running inside the target.
The code written in C++ is executing in the target. (on frame render it sees that the data has changed, and then acts accordingly)

The memory blocks that CE uses for data like textures and other objects do reside in both processes at the same time (they share the same physical memory)

[Filipe_Br]

Are you talking about it here?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/pt-br/library/windows/desktop/aa366551(v=vs.85).aspx

[Dark Byte]

yes