Ramblings++

Just finished adding the very first revision of LUA support to Hades. Currently it’s just a proof of concept, as all it does is load a LUA script which calls a custom function I’ve registered to print the arguments passed to the function to the console. Getting that first bit done and working though is the biggest hurdle, so with that finished I can now move on to writing proper code for it and exposing my whole API.

Both x86 (WoW) and x64 (HL2) builds are tested and working.

I just managed to get Hades working in native x64 mode, which is a huge step forward. Not even InnerSpace can do that at the moment. Currently I only have one game to test it on because I can’t find half my fucking game discs >.<. I’ll be getting my hands on some more x64 games soon though, so that should be good.

The game I currenly have and am testing is Half-Life 2. Below is a screenshot of the first working build. Please disregard the profanity, Kynox was trying to troll me on IRC about not being able to get it working, and pretty much just as he said that I did infact get it working .

I had some very minor issues porting the code over, but luckily (and surprisingly) I didn’t fuck up much at all so it nearly worked “out of the box”. Only took about 30 minutes to track down and fix the issues I was having.

Pretty much the only one that was an actual issue and not just caused by a typo, wrong datatype, etc was with hooking the window subclassing APIs. Don’t forget that SetWindowLongPtrA/W resolves to SetWindowLongA/W via a #define under x86, yet is an actual API of that name under x64. If you don’t explicitly handle that then you’ll be hooking the wrong API and you won’t be able to get subclass detection and rehooking working correctly (if at all).

Honestly I’m amazed at how easy it was to get working. Makes me wonder why the rest of the tools out there are lagging so far behind.

Anyway, I guess I’ll test this for a bit longer, fix any bugs I find, then move on to getting D3D10 working and stable.