Hey bois, i'm trying to make an riddle game, and the first challenge is for the player to realize that, he will have to go inside the game folder, and open a file called "Layout.txt", which contain the following letters:

OnStartup:LoadLayout("Blank");

And then, every time he starts the game, he reads the part ("Blank") soon, Blank, will go to a variable in which it will be compared, and if he agrees with the comparison, he will move to another layout, soon at first. My problem is, how can i do to read a file outside of construct 2 (I don't want any suggestions to be told to add the file to C2) on a specific line? (I've tried using ajax, NWjs, however, I don't know how to read a file from outside C2, and this will be necessary because the player itself will have to change it, and if I upload it to C2, the player will not have access to the file.)

Objective: To be able to read the specific part of the text file outside Construct 2 (Like in game's directory , in which if the player changes to the name of some layout (which will be given when the player finishes a puzzle within the game)), in which that he will do to progress, he changes the layout for the written agreement where the ("Blank") is, (Blank is the initial layout, so the player will have to change the name to enter the next one.) and then, continue progressing in the game, and changing layouts through of that system.

Summarized: Read ("Blank"), in an text file that has to be outside of the Construct (Like in the game's folder), using ajax, NWjs or any other plugin, in which you can read text files outside the Construct.

Please help, i'm trying to solve this for more than an day, i know this is such an specific question, but, any help will be so grateful!

I don't know how advanced these cheating tools are, maybe a simple obfuscation will do the trick. For example you can store the number as text with some random characters in between: "d9u5p"=95. Or replace numbers with letters: "V"=1, "X"=2, "B"=3 etc.

> And, a hash value will be not possible to find it in the Cheat Engine?

Yeah, but Cheat Engine doesn't know that you are using hashing, so it will not be looking for it.

See this demo:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5oru3mfi1hwpco/HashDemo.capx?dl=0

It requires CBhash plugin.

Thanks, i liked the encrypt method, and it works fine!

Call me crazy, but I would rather know if someone was cheating.

Just a thought.

Yes, it was, but, thanks to these heroes up, i could patch succesfully an bit of the CE.

> Paragraph 1: I tried that method but, the Cheat Engine will compare ALL things that has the same value, so, probably the cheater will choose all that have the health value and change it/lock it. I tried saving the health variable to a server but, is client side so, it's cheatable too.

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I mean to spread your health over more than one variable.

Do constant static variables help in this situation? seems like they would be in protected memory.

see here are cheat users trying to find ways around constants...

https://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?p=5657759

The player health is an instance variable but, even if the player health was an static global variable, that won't work. I tried that in an test game, and i could change the variable. Even with more than 1 variable. I've just changed the 3 variables that i made ( 2 Global and 1 instance ), and i could cheat freely.

Ay bro, if possible, can you be more specific to what you want? Didn't understand it a bit.

Yes, making the 'Every X Seconds' updating data can be better and will not outrun the memory of the game, and, the 'Every Tick' will literally at every 1 tick updates the game screen, but, you can do it with the 'Every X Seconds' for better Ram memory. Normally i use the 'Every X Seconds' to minify the use of the Ram, specially when i'm making an bigger game. But, you can normally do with boths, the only change is that will affect the game's perfomance.

So,i'm making an terror gamer that changes the computer of the player, like White Face. So, i want to detect when the PC/Windows is turned on with an offline api ( or plugin ( which is used a lot in idle games ) ) to detect it, but, i don't know none that can do this. So, if you have some ideas or can help me, just comment!

The objective is: Detect if the PC/Windows was turned on ( when he was shutdown by the game ), and, open the game automatically.

(I just need an event to detect it while the game is closed. To open the game is an easy one code.)

I'm making an boss-fight game based, and, one of my alpha tester used cheat engine to get unlimited health. I thinked that to make an ant-cheat will be easy, but, it won't. So, i need an help to make an ant-cheat for the health of the player. I tried making an mask that count the health of the player and the original health, but, if you search the same value in Cheat engine, you can change boths and the ant-cheat won't work. So, i need an big help at this, if you know a code that detects the name of the application opened it will work but can be easily bypassed, but, it's something.

Objective 1.0: If the value life is changed without being by the game, will close the game.

Objective 2.0: Check the name of all applications opened, and, if one is named Cheat Engine, close the game. ( I'll prefer the objective 1.0, however, this works to.)

to get the colour of a pixel, you will have to use the canvas plugin, paste the sprite to the canvas.

Then you can use Canvas.redAt(x,y) Canvas.greenAt(x,y) and Canvas.blueAt(x,y) to get the rgb values.

there are lots of other ways to make maps - load json data, tilemaps, etc.

Thanks bro, it worked but, other ways to make map of dungeons using json or others ways, can you tell me an example?