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Question of How to Proceed?

 
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Baaleos



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:12    Post subject: Question of How to Proceed? Reply with quote
Ok, I have got Visual Studio 6.

I have absolutly no idea of what everything in it does, or how to go about creating a new plugin.

Anyone got any ideas, or links to a tutorial of how to begin making a nwnx2 plugin?


The plugin I want to make is one that get/set feats and maybe some other character changes.

I understand a little about memory addresses and such.
Am I correct in assuming that to be able to do this plugin, I am going to have to debug the server app, and find a unique memory address for a player, then measure the offset from that, to the feat list for that character?

It stands to reason that in theory, the feat list should always be a similar offset from the start of each characters slot in the server.

Does this seem like a valid approach?
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Zebranky



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 18:39    Post subject: Re: Question of How to Proceed? Reply with quote
Baaleos wrote:
Ok, I have got Visual Studio 6.

I have absolutly no idea of what everything in it does, or how to go about creating a new plugin.

Anyone got any ideas, or links to a tutorial of how to begin making a nwnx2 plugin?

There's a demo plugin on the downloads page, I think. Personally, I usually just use nwnx_fixes as a base for my experiments. You should probably check out the SVN repository, as it's all set up to compile all the major Windows plugins out of the box.

Baaleos wrote:
The plugin I want to make is one that get/set feats and maybe some other character changes.

I understand a little about memory addresses and such.
Am I correct in assuming that to be able to do this plugin, I am going to have to debug the server app, and find a unique memory address for a player, then measure the offset from that, to the feat list for that character?

It stands to reason that in theory, the feat list should always be a similar offset from the start of each characters slot in the server.

Does this seem like a valid approach?

I'll PM you some details that might help get started, but your approach is pretty much correct.
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Baaleos



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 18:57    Post subject: Cool Reply with quote
Cool, thanks for the reply.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, in the end, If I manage to get a working real-time feat editor for Windows, it might be worthwhile to make a public release of it.

I've not used Visual Studio 6 before, so I have no clue yet how to start a project or compile anything. (Was kinda hoping there was a tutorial lying around, Lol)


nwnx_fix - whats that?
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