Native RvS Coding Thread

[precision1337]

some people might be wondering why the Raven Shield headers in the Raven Shield SDK aren't "full". the reason why they aren't "full" is because even though the unreal engine in unreal engine based games are very similiar, game developers can come up with their own "unreal" types. some of you may have looked inside EngineClasses.h and seen variables of types that aren't defined in any of the headers at all. such as:

FRegion GreenMenuRegion;
FSoundZoneAudibleZones m_SoundZoneAudibleZones[64];

these are types that need to be manually defined. rvs has an unrealscript class called LevelInfo. the c++ name of LevelInfo is ALevelInfo. if you look inside the ALevelInfo definition inside EngineClasses.h you will find the GreenMenuRegion declaration that is shown above. The problem is that FRegion itself is not defined. How do you define it? Well, by looking at the unrealscript version. Open LevelInfo.uc which is in the Engine folder inside the rvs sdk. inside this you will find the following definition:

struct Region
{
var int Red;
var int Green;
};

this is the unrealscript version of FRegion. how do you tell? structs in unrealscript have "F" appended to their name in c++. now that you've found the unrealscript version of the FRegion, it's time to define it inside of EngineClasses.h. so it would be:

struct ENGINE_API FRegion
{
int Red;
int Green;
};

this is to help those who are wanting to complete their rvs headers. this is just an example of a certain type. also, some types that you define manually will have data members of types that are types that you had to define manually . for example, some other classes or structs have data members that are of type FRegion. happy coding .

[DyslexicCheater]

This is all great information, so no offense is intended by the following comment, but why do what you're doing when you can just as easily if not more so alter/call game functions on the assembler level, and have a much smaller, cleaner hack because of it? If you allocate yourself some memory space and build everything from scratch, you'll find you know exactly what everything means and how to use it.

[tamimego]

Because 99% of the people here have the faintest idea of what asm is and how it worx. And yes you are correct, assembly built hacks will always be smaller and faster than any other hack.

[superdupe]

tami why dont you make your hack in asm?

[KizZamP-]

i thought he told me on msn that that is what he's doing now.
@tami : jelle :p
kizzamp-

[precision1337]

__asm
{
push Result
push Parms
push Function
call pProcessEvent
}

that's what i know about asm

[HyPeR-X]

__asm
{
push Result
push Parms
push Function
call pProcessEvent
}

that's what i know about asm

Thats what osGb` knows about asm.

- HyPz

[superdupe]

burn...

[DotProduct]

This is all great information, so no offense is intended by the following comment, but why do what you're doing when you can just as easily if not more so alter/call game functions on the assembler level, and have a much smaller, cleaner hack because of it? If you allocate yourself some memory space and build everything from scratch, you'll find you know exactly what everything means and how to use it.

dc if its not to much to ask u should make us a little tutorial exactly on how to do so... would be greatly appreciated

msn or pm would be great too...
dotproduct@hotmail.com

[HUMM3R]

Thats what osGb` knows about asm.

- HyPz

Nah, thats pretty much common knowledge, that how most native language compilers compile the

pProcessEvent(Function, Parms, Result);

Because 99% of the people here have the faintest idea of what asm is and how it worx. And yes you are correct, assembly built hacks will always be smaller and faster than any other hack.

That's for sure, if you also know how to use MMX, SSE/2, etc instructions too. But as the complexity of the hack grows, so will the unreadability of it grow. Did you tried to do a simple one-form application in MASM32 for example? Even with the many macro definitions you can use with it, its way too unreadable

[DyslexicCheater]

dc if its not to much to ask u should make us a little tutorial exactly on how to do so... would be greatly appreciated

Well, you need to be more specific. What exactly do you need a tutorial on? Writing a DLL in MASM? There are a plethora of tutorials about that, and all related topics on the web. If you are experienced in MASM, you could even use my C DLL example to figure it out. After all, C is nothing more than HLA.

People don't realize that when they ask for explanations, they need to ask on specific subjects, instead of vague categories. For overviews, Google has everything you need and then some.

@HUMM3R: The readability of the code is strictly the responsibility of the programmer. Creating linear, modular programs is not difficult. It's all about organization.

[superdupe]

how do you express r6pawn(me) in native.. out of curiosity?

[KizZamP-]

just add a var for r6pawn and then do something like r6pawn(myplayercontroller->pawn).
though if you would like to call a function directly,i don't think that'll wor,you'll need to find the function using Fname etc.

[drewpaul86]

uhm...ok

or just do

AR6Pawn* MyPawn = (AR6Pawn*)MyPlayerController->Pawn;

[RuffianSoldier]

just add a var for r6pawn and then do something like r6pawn(myplayercontroller->pawn).
though if you would like to call a function directly,i don't think that'll wor,you'll need to find the function using Fname etc.

Kizzamp - whats your deffinition of calling a function "directly" and indirectly...

I honostly dont think you have a clue what you are talking about....