Carlos Hernandez - Mission: Impossible - Forbidden Areas [rooted2019]

3. Quantum mechanics at IBM Research.
I hack game mechanics, so you don't have
to.
Reverse engineer and software developer
It's-a me, Karliky!
@k4rliky

4. The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
It's impossible to think about The
Fellowship of the Ring without
mesmerising long shots and sweepingly
luscious landscapes springing to mind.

5. The Istari were in origin Maiar, divine
beings of the same order as the Valar, but
of lesser power. One can think of them as
angels—Tolkien once said “Gandalf is an
angel.”
A wizard
Istari

6. …for though he loved the Elves, he walked among them
unseen, or in form as one of them, and they did not know
whence came the fair visions or the promptings of
wisdom that he put into their hearts…
Walking unseen

17. NPCs, Players, etc, are stored
in the Object Manager as a
linked list.
1 - Object Manager
Each element inside the linked
list points to the next.
2 - Iterate
Take the GUID you want to
change and set it as the
controlled character.
Change controlled char
The camera should also point
to the selected GUID to make
it follow you.
Change the camera
NPC Hijacking

22. Patch 1.9, The Gates of Ahn’Qiraj
Patch notes (3 January 2006):
World environment:
Players should no longer be able to walk on steep terrain.

23. Wallwalking in Stormwind City

31. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an action
role-playing game set in an open world
environment and played from a first-
person perspective.
Kingdom Come
Deliverance

33. Player coords: { x: 0, y: 0 }

34. Player coords: { x: 0, y: 0 }

35. Player coords: { x: 4096, y: 0 }

36. Player coords: { x: 4096, y: 0 }

37. Player coords: { x: 4096, y: 0 }

39. Kingdom ComeTesting area

40. All maps are divided into
64x64 blocks for a total of
4096
1 - Map size and blocks
Each block is 533.33333 yards
in width and height.
2 - Map size
Each block has 16x16 chunks,
the size of a chunk will be
33.3333 yards.
3 - Block chunks To get your current ADT
position you can do this:
Math.floor((32 - (axis /
533.33333)))
4 - ADT files and blocks
WoW coords and maps

44. A map tile is split up into 16x16 = 256 map chunks.

45. Moving Blocks

46. Moving Blocks

67. A full day in-game lasts for 24 hours.
The day consists of 3 phases: Day, Dusk
and Night.
Day and Night Cycle

72. Thank you!
@k4rliky - http://www.karliky.com
No games were harmed in the making of this presentation.
Special thanks to: Dopefish, Malu05, modcraft.io and the Nogg-Aholic community.
In loving memory of Karina Guzmán (@Mardyb_)