[Mac] A few findings and a few questions

[Musah]

I'm going to dump the findings I find here. More will come as I learn

Object Manager = 0x12968E0
[Base Address]+0x2B58 = Current Experience

[Jadd]

[Player GUID]+0x2B58 = Current Experience

A player GUID is 8 bytes... how would you possibly read that as a pointer? O.o

[xalcon]

Why would you know how WoW creates the GUID? The GUIDs were sent by the server, i think.

If a GUID is randomly assigned, how might I get it in my bot's code?

Which GUID do you want? O_o I dont realy understand you problem. WoW has an ObjectManager, which lists every single object around your character. Every object has a GUID... look how to dump the object manager, which should answer your question.
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...e-objects.html ([Guide-kind of] How I handle objects.) (< nice example to begin with)

[MaiN]

A player GUID is 8 bytes... how would you possibly read that as a pointer? O.o

64-bit bro, 64-bit.

[Jadd]

64-bit bro, 64-bit.

Oh yeah. I forgot about IntPtr's I almost never use them.

Edit: Player GUID still doesn't point to anything lol

[xalcon]

sometimes I write shit. delete this :x

[Musah]

Why would you know how WoW creates the GUID? The GUIDs were sent by the server, i think.

Which GUID do you want? O_o I dont realy understand you problem. WoW has an ObjectManager, which lists every single object around your character. Every object has a GUID... look how to dump the object manager, which should answer your question.
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...e-objects.html ([Guide-kind of] How I handle objects.) (< nice example to begin with)

You guys are an amazing community, thank you so much!

EDIT: Unfortunately, I can't use ObjectManager as I am on a different platform. Is there a way to run through the list of objects via read memory?



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Oh yeah. I forgot about IntPtr's I almost never use them.

Edit: Player GUID still doesn't point to anything lol

It depends what Operating System your using. These are Mac OSX which differ from Windows.

[Bananenbrot]

It depends what Operating System your using. These are Mac OSX which differ from Windows.

Wow... OSX makes that memory address really globally unique.

[Musah]

Wow... OSX makes that memory address really globally unique.

They are different but I fail as usual. I think I meant to say "Base address" verses GUID.

[MaiN]

Oh yeah. I forgot about IntPtr's I almost never use them.

Edit: Player GUID still doesn't point to anything lol

IntPtr's size depends on architecture (32-bit on 32-bit, 64-bit on 64-bit). But no, player GUID doesn't point to anything (:P), but if any way, that is the way to read from an 8 byte value as a pointer (and it is technically possible to enter 64-bit mode and call NtReadVirtualMemory in ntdll and leave 64-bit mode if you are running in a WOW64 process).

[xalcon]

Unfortunately, I can't use ObjectManager as I am on a different platform. Is there a way to run through the list of objects via read memory?

Well, you may not be able to "copy'n'pasta" the code from the objectManager, but you might be... no, you should be able to write your own/porting the c# one to your language. Most of us don't throw links away, where you can copy everything and expect that you have a working bot. Most of the time you have to fix some code on your own or find out how anything works. Thats one of the basic requirements of memory editing (at least for me )

I don't have a Mac to test it, but I think there is not that much difference between the Mac and the Windows client, so writing a port of this code should be no problem at all.

[adaephon]

Unfortunately, I can't use ObjectManager as I am on a different platform. Is there a way to run through the list of objects via read memory?

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It depends what Operating System your using. These are Mac OSX which differ from Windows.

WoW on Mac OS X still uses an object manager. The offsets are different, but the theory is the same. Look at the (now outdated) source for PocketGnome: pocketgnome - World of Warcraft bot for Mac OS X - Google Project Hosting, plenty of examples of reading the object list on Mac OS X.

Sure, the OS makes a lot of things different, but pointers and GUIDs are still hugely different concepts, even on Mac OS X :-P

[Musah]

Well, you may not be able to "copy'n'pasta" the code from the objectManager, but you might be... no, you should be able to write your own/porting the c# one to your language. Most of us don't throw links away, where you can copy everything and expect that you have a working bot. Most of the time you have to fix some code on your own or find out how anything works. Thats one of the basic requirements of memory editing (at least for me )

I don't have a Mac to test it, but I think there is not that much difference between the Mac and the Windows client, so writing a port of this code should be no problem at all.

No, worries. Am still referencing this as well as Josh's thread here: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...onnection.html ([3.1.2][mac] How do I find sCurMgr/g_clientConnection?)
I am close to making this thing work. Thanks!

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WoW on Mac OS X still uses an object manager. The offsets are different, but the theory is the same. Look at the (now outdated) source for PocketGnome: pocketgnome - World of Warcraft bot for Mac OS X - Google Project Hosting, plenty of examples of reading the object list on Mac OS X.

Sure, the OS makes a lot of things different, but pointers and GUIDs are still hugely different concepts, even on Mac OS X :-P

The way Josh handles his offsets are a bit confusing to me but I figured out his memory read function a while ago. For those interested he uses mach_vm_read_overwrite.
I'll be sure to write some documentation about all this as I came into memory editing not knowing a thing about it, but through trial and error I think I figured it out.

[eSko]

A player GUID is 8 bytes... how would you possibly read that as a pointer? O.o

64-bit bro, 64-bit.

Maybe a stupid question, but isn't 8 bytes=64 bits?

[Musah]

Added the Object Manager offset for mac!

Maybe a stupid question, but isn't 8 bytes=64 bits?

sizeof(int)=4
sizeof(uint64)=8

So yup, you are correct sir.