Writing My Own Bot

[myownedcoreaccount]

Hi everybody, I'm a computer science student and I'm interested in writing my own WoW bot. I've searched a lot of places and easily found most of the raw data I'm going to need (memory locations, offsets and whatnot), but what I couldn't find was sort of a general overview of the process. I have a reasonable amount of experience writing C++, so that is the language I will preferably be coding in. However, most of my coding experience was in the UNIX environment where I compile and run all programs from the command line. I really feel that I've got the coding skills and insight to program a very efficient bot, but I'm lacking in a general understanding of how the application will be built and run. Ideally I'd like to get a step by step process of how it is done. (not really the code details, just a general explanation.)



Also, if anyone knows any open source bot programs (in any language) that would be EXTREMELY helpful and awesome. Thanks, and feel free to explain like I'm five.

[Sychotix]

Well, this depends on how you want to do everything. Are you just going to be making it completely external? If so, just use ReadProcessMemory to read from the process, decide on what you should do about the read information, and then send the correct inputs to the game.

[myownedcoreaccount]

I'm not sure about whether or not it will be external. If it is though, how would I send inputs to the game?

[Sychotix]

SendMessage or something like that? I forget. I'd google something about sending input to a window. In-Process bots are also very nice, but you need to worry about detection. These are decisions you need to make before developing =P

[myownedcoreaccount]

I know I sound stupid, but thanks for your help. That sounds good. What exactly should I google though? Trying to send input to a different program? That seems pretty vague and I don't think it would get me anywhere. I know how to say what I want to do in English, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm trying to do from a software standpoint. That's what's confusing me the most; I don't even know the right questions to ask.

[DarkLinux]

If your bot is going to be private do it in process... So much better But you have a long way to go... Its a lot of work / research. But this forum has everything you need... just go page by page

[Smitten]

Don't forget to also familiarize yourself with LUA, especially WoW's LUA functions and APIs. You'll be using them a lot.

[myownedcoreaccount]

If your bot is going to be private do it in process... So much better

What exactly does 'in process' mean? Thanks for the replies

[l0l1dk]

What exactly does 'in process' mean? Thanks for the replies

In process means injecting code into the process to call or hook functions in it. Out of process would be memory reading and sending key presses.

[jumperu]

Lazybot is currently open-source and in need of a developer, you can google to find the source. Would be nice if you could take over, it's a really nice bot and the source has over 1000 command lines or something like that, i'm not really good with c+, i just heard this

[radarlove]

This link helped me when I first began programming my tools:
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...int-newbs.html ([Guides] Starting point for newbs)