[Question] Injection / Shape shift Form

[Steveiwonder]

Hello all,

I'm trying to get my current ShapeShiftedForm but most of the posts i've found for doing this use Injection / lua dostring

In general is there always (i say this with a pinch of salt) an alternative to using injection to retrieve what you want? Maybe with extra code?

I've looked through all the current/old Info Dumps but didn't find anything that worked for me so i have a feeling injection is the way forward, so this is maybe where i need to look depending on the answer to the above question. I prefer to stick to what i alread know, and thats not injection but if i have to learn then i will.

Looking for some advice.

Thanks Steve

(will post some of my code once booted laptop).

[Mr.Zunz]

    public enum ShapeshiftForm
    {
        Normal = 0,
        Cat = 1,
        TreeOfLife = 2,
        Travel = 3,
        Aqua = 4,
        Bear = 5,
        Ambient = 6,
        Ghoul = 7,
        DireBear = 8,
        CreatureBear = 14,
        CreatureCat = 15,
        GhostWolf = 16,
        BattleStance = 17,
        DefensiveStance = 18,
        BerserkerStance = 19,
        EpicFlightForm = 27,
        Shadow = 28,
        Stealth = 30,
        Moonkin = 31,
        SpiritOfRedemption = 32
}

From the constant data dump, no idea how you actually can read the values.

[Steveiwonder]

Thanks Dude, but i've got this already its getting the values where im failing. So i dont know if its injection i needed to do or its just simple memread.

[Robske]

I wasn't aware that doing some research hurts...

Regardless, UNIT_FIELD_BYTES_2[3]

Edit: I is wrong.

[Steveiwonder]

Robske, thanks dude

I appreciate your response, it has helped me.

However, i am still curious about the answer to my original question.

In general is there always (i say this with a pinch of salt) an alternative to using injection to retrieve what you want? Maybe with extra code?

Maybe my original post didn't make sense, but its more of a learning curve for me. Weather i need to start using injection or there is a safe alternative to everything.

Thanks again Robske.

[Robske]

Robske, thanks dude

I appreciate your response, it has helped me.

However, i am still curious about the answer to my original question.


Maybe my original post didn't make sense, but its more of a learning curve for me. Weather i need to start using injection or there is a safe alternative to everything.

Thanks again Robske.

You need injection to read a descriptor nowadays? ReadProcessMemory will suffice.

[Apoc]

I wasn't aware that doing some research hurts...

Regardless, UNIT_FIELD_BYTES_2[4]

Isn't it the 3rd byte? Not the 4th?

[adaephon]

In answer to your original question, injection is necessary if what you want to do requires code to be executed within the context of the process. What you want to do is retrieve information and the reason injection is useful is that the WoW developers have written lots of functions within the client that retrieve information. This means that if injected you can simply call some previously implemented function to get your desired implementation. Once injected it is, for all intents and purposes, a one line solution.

However (at least as far as retrieving information) these functions still have to get their information from somewhere or through some process. So if you don't want to inject and use the already-written work of hundreds of developers then you can always reverse engineer their work to try to find a way you can replicate the functionality in your own app outside the process space. If it's retrieving data it will generallybe located in memory somewhere, in a file somewhere or on the server somewhere, and you can access these out of process by reading memory, reading files or intercepting packets.

Injection has a whole host of other benefits outside of retrieving information but your question seemed to lead to retrieval so I've addressed that only.

[guizmows]

Yes it's the 3rd