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PerfectRandomness · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

I've been trying to find the addresses for mouse horizontal rotation and the mouse's vertical angle in AssaultCube. It hasn't been going too well. Since I have no idea what the values will be, I just started with unknown value, moved the mouse and clicked "changed value". Over and over again. It's gotten to the point where only 1 address is getting ruled out each time I click "next search" and I've got a few hundred more to go...

So my question is: How can I find my address faster? Unless anyone happens to have the pointers to these addresses and is willing to send them to me.

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Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

see if you can go into and out of the game without moving.
Then search for unchanged. Combine it with some jumping and walking around, and make sure the mouse doesn't move a inch

if it's a first person game, moving to the right usually means an increased value. and once you've found that the vertical address is usually nearby.

talking about nearby, it can be the current location is also stored nearby the camera variables (just make sure you get the right coordinates, like playercontroller and not playerpawn )

PerfectRandomness · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

When I finally do find some addresses I need, the values are really weird. They turn out as really large numbers which do the right things when I freeze them or change the value, but otherwise are very strange. I found the horizontal address (I think) but the value doesn't seem to depend on any one direction. It seems like it should start at 0 in one direction (say east) and increase clockwise, but it doesn't seem to do that. When I freeze it, though, the mouse can't move horizontally.

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject:

Have you tried manually editing the values and see what happens in the game (windowed mode would be useful)

Also, have you tried looking at those addresses using different value types?
E.g it could be a floating point value, or it's actually stored as a 2 byte and the bytes after it are unrelated (unreal uses a 2 byte value ranging from 0 to 65535)

Monkeys · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject:

Also, in FPS games it often occurs that the mouse position seems to be many, many addresses.
Basicly because it influences rather much. Several variables are changed because of mouse movement.

Slugsnack · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:49 pm Post subject:

when i was looking for mouse coords, i narrowed down the addresses quite quickly by making it look within a sensible value range.

for example if your game runs 800 x 600 then the x coordinate of the mouse would be between 0-800 so you can get rid of a bunch of addresses that way already

filtering out the stupid values every few scans should get you the address quite quickly

Monkeys · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject:

PerfectRandomness · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

Wouldn't the x coordinate be like 0-360 starting at some point such as east, north, south etc? I'm not talking about the actual mouse's position on the screen (always centered in an FPS game) but rather the player's orientation in the 3d world. I'm following a TUT to make an aimbot which works by finding the angle from the player to the target and setting his horizontal and vertical angles to those values.

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject:

it can be anything depending on the game.
Some might do 0 to 360 as a floating point, and others might do 0 to 6.283...
and yet other games do 0 to 65535, where 65536 is a full turn

Bswap · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Aug 2009 Posts: 21

Player FOV_X and FOV_Y variables are typically stored in the player's personal information structure along with coordinates and health. Find this structures (lots of ways to do so) and you will find the FOV_X and FOV_Y.

Alternately, some games have a +centerview cvar that automatically centers the FOV_Y to 0. Use ollydbg to trace this cvar in the referenced strings.

In the q3 unreal engine the string is referenced only once during cvar registration.

PerfectRandomness · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

Bswap · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Aug 2009 Posts: 21

scan for FLOAT, not LONG or DOUBLE

FLOAT!

I was going to ask what engine does it use, but I forget CUBE is it's OWN engine.

Try this, get in a single player game and try and locate your Z coordinate that is HEIGHT! This will involve using a memory searcher and scanning for FLOAT values increased (when climbing ladder) or decreased (the opposite).

Once found, open the address in the hex editor and start looking for dword variables that change only when you move horizontally or vertically with the mouse. This is what you're after. If you have an oldschool rotary mouse with two wheels at the bottom, one for horiz one for vert, it will make the JOB that much EASIER!