Basic Hacking Questions

Hello MPGH's,

1.) What is a hook?
2.) What is an offset & How would I find it?
3.) After learning Win32 and some Basic D3D what should I learn?


Please, I already googled these things, save your LMGTFY links for someone else.
Thanks,
-JayFabulous!!

A hook is used to intercept a function so you can do whatever you want with it.

An offset is the distance, in this case its the distance between the address you're looking for and the base of the module. You reverse engineer, or if you have the source you can start from a string, it's really easy from there.

I don't know. |:

a) If you really do have finished learning the whole WinCrap API and some Basic D3D you should not ask these questions.
1) Err ; Catching/Intercepting/Interfacing a defined thing so you can do pretty much what/intercept what you want/ etc. you want with it / with it's calls.
2) Mem. Emplacement of the thingy you want calculated from the specified module's Base Emplacement.
3) Master what you supposedly learnt =). ( This is When you think you have learned all you had to learn in something you forget important things / capabilities. )

Actually I didn't really define a hook properly, you could even hook functions without intercepting it. You could change the address that's being called to your own, and return the original, the end result would make it seem like you intercepted the function but you actually didn't.

I'm not really good at explaining these kinds of things, I'll leave this to the pros. |:

Lol. I thought it was good enough. *Pats on backs*