Help finding a reflex in hex

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:46 pm

Can someone give me an example of how to find a reflex in hex and its offset and size becouse i want to be able to add some reflexise to my chunk adders plugin thanks

xbox7887 · Post by **xbox7887** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:25 am

reflexives are listed like this...they have a 4 byte chunk count, then the 4 byte reflexive that actually points to the meta. reflexives will almost always end in 80.

0100 0000 ABCD EF80 ---> points to 1 thing
0A00 0000 ABCD EF80 ---> points to 10 things

this should get u started and if u wanna find sizes you need to open up the meta.data file and find the difference between where the first reflexive points to and where the next one points to...then you can divide that size by the chunk count to get your chunk size. if you need a more in depth explanation just send me a pm and ill help u out

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:40 am

xbox7887 wrote:reflexives are listed like this...they have a 4 byte chunk count, then the 4 byte reflexive that actually points to the meta. reflexives will almost always end in 80.

0100 0000 ABCD EF80 ---> points to 1 thing
0A00 0000 ABCD EF80 ---> points to 10 things

this should get u started and if u wanna find sizes you need to open up the meta.data file and find the difference between where the first reflexive points to and where the next one points to...then you can divide that size by the chunk count to get your chunk size. if you need a more in depth explanation just send me a pm and ill help u out

thanks for the explaination, i would like a more in depth explination but i cant get to my pm box for some reason without an error, but this is what ive got so far. if i have this reflex 0200 0000 581B 5380 i now know it will points to 2 things, but i still need i little help with finding the actuall meta. maybe you could help me on aim tmacca123 or just on here

but thanks for your help going through this with me

xbox7887 · Post by **xbox7887** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:37 am

ok so you have your meta saved that the reflexive is in....now open up the meta.data file in notepad and you should see something like this.

Reflexive|184|820|9
Reflexive|264|892|3

the numbers indicate decimal offsets and the first number is the reflexive location, the second is the offset where the reflexive points to, and the last one is the chunk count, or how many things it points to.

so lets say you want to find the chunk size for the first reflexive. take the offset where the first reflexive points to (820) and subtract from where the next one points to (892)

892-820=72 --->the first reflexive points to a total of 72 bytes

now to find the individual chunk size all you do is take the total meta that it points to and divide by the chunk count.

72/9=8 --->this means that the chunk size for the first reflexive is 8

this method usually works but things can become more complicated when dealing with nested reflexives or if they arent listed in order under the meta.data file so just keep in mind that reflexives point to meta and they cant point to something elses meta, so where one stops, another begins and so on. hope this helps a bit

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:53 am

Yeah thanls for takin time to explain this