A while ago I stumbled upon an uc thread while I was working on a Half-Life 2 trainer, browsing for clues how virtual function tables work. I had a basic understanding of them before, but wanted to dive a bit deeper. I found Hinnie's thread from ~2020ish iirc, about a RTTI Virtual Function Table...
I was notified about an "exploit" regarding colored text. (I pardon for the first image, the community is filled with weird people)
Figure 1. Initial sighting of the "exploit".
It intrigued me. Ideated with a friend and started off trying to replicate it. First idea was to use colored...
I remembered Salvatore's lua for luminus lights in csgo. Got me interested how it's done so here's another entry in my reversing blog. I'll be using Moneybot and their Lua api for this.
I started looking how lights are added in hammer and watched a couple of videos
Video 1
Video 2
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