Jgoemat: Added example of how the function can be used

2025-01-22T03:14:16Z

Added example of how the function can be used

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This can be used to load an external mono assembly from a file, which you can then access
like an assembly from the game.

As an example, you could create a new class library project in Visual Studio and reference
the assemblies from the folder for the game "Our Adventurer's Guild" and create a class
like this. This has a method that can be called in place of the game's "CraftingWindowUI:CheckCraftable"
method and skips the checks it does for inventory and only enables the button and calls
the UpdateUI() method called in the original method to make it visible. A program called
'dnspy' is useful for examining the game's "Assembly-CSharp.dll" assembly and finding out
what the game code does.

<pre>
namespace MyGuild
{
public static class CraftingWindowExtensions
{
public static void CheckCraftable(this CraftingWindowUI ui)
{
ui.CraftButton.interactable = true;
ui.CraftPrompt.UpdateUI();
}
}
}
</pre>

Then an autoassembly script table entery can be created to load the DLL into the game's process:

<pre>
[enable]
{$lua}
mono_loadAssemblyFromFile("C:\\git\\MyGuild\\bin\\Debug\\MyGuild.dll")
{$asm}

[disable]
</pre>

Then another autoassembly script table entry can be created that will inject a jmp into
the game's original code to call the replacement method instead:

<pre>
define(hook,"CraftingWindowUI:CheckCraftable")
define(bytes,55 48 8B EC 48 81 EC 80 00 00 00 48 89 75 F0)

[enable]
assert(hook, bytes)

hook:
jmp far MyGuild.CraftingWindowExtensions.CheckCraftable

[disable]

hook:
db bytes
</pre>

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