how can i get player name?

[bisfs]

in some other's work, they use namemask and namebase offset, and then do some calculation, lastly got an address and use it to get GUID to compare with the player's who we want to get the name.

pseudo code:
nameMask nameBase

some calculate
...
got an address

while(mem[address] != player.GUI)
{
do some address calculate
}
palyer.name = mem[address + nameoffset]

can any one explain those "some address calculate" for me.
any help would be nice for me.

CONTEXT:i have known how to get uint's name.

[DarkLinux]

Just use the lua api or revers it. Its really simple And I think if you search you will find a topic just like this.

[bone91]

I'm fairly certain the playername is actually a static address. So once you have the process, you just have to search for the name adress in it. In fact, you can easily figure this one out by using CheatEngine.
If you want to access something that's dependant on the player base, you have to first receive the actual playerbase's address, which is always different. However, the playerbase pointer is static. Therefore if you read a uint of the playerbase pointer, you will receive the actual playerbase address. You can then add thing onto it. For example, playerbase+x = playerHP, playerbase+y = playermaxHP etc.

In C#, using blackmagic, for the TBC client, this can look like this.

int playerCurrentHP = (int)wow.ReadUInt(wow.ReadUInt(PlayerBase) + 0x2698);
int playerMaxHP = (int)wow.ReadUInt(wow.ReadUInt(PlayerBase) + 0x26B0);

[bisfs]

Just use the lua api or revers it. Its really simple And I think if you search you will find a topic just like this.

for using lua api or those script functions, should i need to inject dll or get lua unlocked?
because wow and my program are two process and they have individual memory space. so i think i should use those address in wow process.
i am very new here, and never use those functions before.

thanks a lot.

[DarkLinux]

Search ihook or I think it was ohook. That will allow you tocall ingame lua apis externally. And no you dont need an unlocked.

[bisfs]

Search ihook or I think it was ohook. That will allow you tocall ingame lua apis externally. And no you dont need an unlocked.

can you give an illustration about how to use this tech to call those apis, and pseudo code is ok.

GIVEN:script_funcA offset:0xaaaaaa.

[danwins]

can you give an illustration about how to use this tech to call those apis, and pseudo code is ok.

GIVEN:script_funcA offset:0xaaaaaa.

iirc ihook/ohook or whatever was just a wrapper for DoString/ExecuteBuffer and GetLocalizedText, you could technically modify it to work with other functions as well but you need to be aware of calling conventions and appropriate stack cleanup.

you can simply use GetLocalizedText to return the value you want if there's a LUA API call capable of getting the data you need.

an example would be something like calling Lua_Dostring("varname = GetUnitName("player"));
then calling GetLocalizedText to retrieve the "varname" arg.

[bisfs]

iirc ihook/ohook or whatever was just a wrapper for DoString/ExecuteBuffer and GetLocalizedText, you could technically modify it to work with other functions as well but you need to be aware of calling conventions and appropriate stack cleanup.

you can simply use GetLocalizedText to return the value you want if there's a LUA API call capable of getting the data you need.

an example would be something like calling Lua_Dostring("varname = GetUnitName("player"));
then calling GetLocalizedText to retrieve the "varname" arg.

thank you for your reply
i think i should get some hook tech to study