Guide:Finding pointers and offsets: Difference between revisions

This tutorial will teach you how to find pointers to structs and use offsets to access values stored within those structs. Basically every value the game uses is stored in a struct somewhere in memory, so if you can find a global pointer to a struct, and then figure out the offset to access a value in that struct, you can access that value in any map without having to scan for it. The steps below should work for all three games, butthough keep in mind that [[Sly 1]] structs are organized slightly differently than [[Sly 2]] and [[Sly 3]] structs.

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#*In this tutorial we will use [[Sly 2:Jt|Sly]]'s]] X -position while in the [[Sly 2:F nightclub exterior|Paris map]] in [[Sly 2:Overview|Sly 2]]. By doing changed value scans in Cheat Engine, we know the address of Sly's X position is is <tt>0xFB3710</tt>.

#*Check the box for "'''Read'''", but not "Write" or "Execute".

#*In ourthis case, all you have to do is play as Sly, since the game constantly reads Sly's position while he's active.

Use the tutorial below to find the base address of the Sly entity struct using the [[Sly 2:FK$x|FK$xX]] string. Then use Cheat Engine's memory viewer to find the pointer to the Transform Component in memory nearby. Now use a calculator to subtract the address of the Transform Component pointer from the Sly Entity base address, and that will be the offset of the Transform Component for every entity in the game.