[Help] A way to get description from quest?

[gononono64]

I was wondering if there was a way to get the description from a quest.

My goal is to make a quest reader so you can get the story of the game without having to sit and read the text yourself (as well as do other things).

I went into dump and found somethings related to quests but when i tried them i didnt get the expected result.

I dont really know what else to say so yeah

Thank you in advance ^_^

[Cypher]

I can't login to WoW atm, so I can't test this, but did you try Lua?

World of Warcraft API - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

GetQuestText seems to be what you want... It's not marked as protected/disabled/removed etc either.

[_Mike]

GetQuestText only works reliably while you're talking to a quest npc according to GetQuestText
There's also SelectQuestLogEntry combined with GetQuestLogQuestText for already accepted quests.

[Steveiwonder]

I dont know if this is slightly offtopic(ish) but if you knew the quest ID or wanted questetxt for all quests, is that stuff not stored in a DBC somewhere? (not checked). Just an idea.

---IGNORE--- text not in DBC

[gononono64]

Oh wow awesome! Okay so now i have something like this:

/script questDescription, questObjectives = GetQuestLogQuestText();

/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(format("[ %s ] %s , %s",GetZoneText(),(questDescription ),(questObjectives)));

So now, how do i use that outside of wow so that my program can use it?

Unfortunately, i dont know much about lua and i was hoping i could just use a memory address. Any kind of response is greatly appreciated!

Thank you guys so much +rep for cypher and _mike!

[_Mike]

You could try QuestCache.wdb - WoW.Dev Wiki
Either read it from disk or from the client's memory.
I don't know if new quests are written to disk instantly or only on ui reload like lua variables so memory reading might be preferred.

[Cheatz0]

Check page 2 of this wonderful forum. There's a thread with code examples on how to retrieve cached quest data. Also i think TOM_RUS dumped the full questcache struct in the same thread, so you should be able to find what you are looking for.

[gononono64]

I tried :

Global Const $oQuestCacheBase = 0x89ADE0;uint
Global Const $oFirst = 0x10 ;uint
Global Const $oQuestId = 0xC ;uint
Global Const $oQuestName = 0xC4 ;uint
Global Const $oQuestDesc = 0x2C4 ;uint
Global Const $oLevel = 0x14 ;uint
Global Const $oRequiresLevel = 0x18 ;uint

$questPtr = _MemoryRead("0x" & Hex($oQuestCacheBase + $oFirst), $wow, "uint")
MsgBox(0,"",$questPtr)
$firstQuestPtr = $questPtr ;uint

while ($questPtr <> 0)

	$QuestId = _MemoryRead("0x" & Hex($questPtr + $oQuestId), $wow, "uint")
	$Level = _MemoryRead("0x" & Hex($questPtr + $oLevel), $wow, "uint")
	$RequiresLevel = _MemoryRead("0x" & Hex($questPtr + $oRequiresLevel), $wow, "uint")
	$QuestName = _MemoryRead("0x" & Hex($questPtr + $oQuestName), $wow, "char[100]")


	MsgBox(0, "", $QuestId & " " & $QuestName & " " & $Level & " " & $RequiresLevel);

	$questPtr = _MemoryRead("0x" & Hex($questPtr), $wow, "uint")

	if $questPtr = $firstQuestPtr Then
		_MemoryClose($wow)
		Exit
	EndIf
WEnd
	_MemoryClose($wow)

Converted from the post on the 2nd page. It returns 0

[!@^^@!]

How about retrieving it from web sources like wowhead or mmo-champ db?

[_Mike]

Global Const $oQuestCacheBase = 0x8DDAC8;

[gononono64]

_Mike i know i couldnt find the new address in the dump. And i dont really know much about reversing.

!@^^@! I thought about that but i wasnt really sure how the program would know what quest the user would want it to read.

[_Mike]

_Mike i know i couldnt find the new address in the dump. And i dont really know much about reversing.

It's CACHE_QUEST in the first post by TOM_RUS. Then subtract 0x400000 since it's not rebased.

[gononono64]

Wow _Mike thank you so much!!! I think i am mentally handicapped for not seeing that! Also i forgot to add wowbase to QuestCacheBase. +Rep for sure! (when i can)

Last little thing. Is there a list of all the offsets for this?

Man thanks again so much!!!

[!@^^@!]

Well i still think using something like a wow db is a better idea because you don't need to keep an offset updated... Secondly you could just ask the user to type in the name of the quest into the application although i guess that idea is a bit useless because people would probably just go to wowhead and use a generic text reader at that point :3

oh well have fun with the project

[gononono64]

I DID IT!...IT IS COMPLETE! will be posting it in the bot sections! Thank you all