WizardnewLoadTag.lua

-- Tet new Wizard's LoadTags function --


-- Declare a global table for global use across the script.
local global_tag_id_table
local global_tag_name_table

function GetRequiredVersion() return 200 end

function OnScriptLoad(process, game, persistent)
    if game == "PC" then
        map_name = readstring(0x698F21)
        map_pointer = 0x63525c
    else
        map_name = readstring(0x61D151)
        map_pointer = 0x5B927C
    end
end

function OnNewGame(map)
    LoadTags()
end

function OnServerChat(player, type, message)
    local response = nil
    if player then
        if string.lower(message) == "shee" then
            local response = false
            tagId = tag("vehi", "vehicles\\banshee\\banshee_mp")
            privatesay(player, tagId, false)
            return response
        end
    end
    return response
end

 function LoadTags()

    local map_base = readdword(map_pointer)
    local tag_table_base = readdword(map_base) -- Confirmed. (0x40440028)
    local tag_table_count = readdword(map_base + 0xC) -- Confirmed. Number of tags in the tag table.
    local tag_table_size = 0x20 -- Confirmed.

    -- For efficiency within Lua
    local reverse = string.reverse

    for i=0,(tag_table_count - 1) do
        local tag_class = reverse(readstring(tag_table_base + (tag_table_size * i), 4))
        local tag_id = readdword(tag_table_base + 0xC + (tag_table_size * i))
        local tag_name_address = readdword(tag_table_base + 0x10 + tag_table_size * i)
        local tag_name = readstring(tag_name_address)
        global_tag_id_table[tag_class] = global_tag_id_table[tag_class] or {}
        global_tag_id_table[tag_class][tag_name] = tag_id
        global_tag_name_table[tag_id] = {}
        global_tag_name_table[tag_id].tag_name = tag_name
        global_tag_name_table[tag_id].tag_class = tag_class
    end
end

 function tag(type_or_id, tagname)
    if not tagname then
        return global_tag_name_table[type_or_id].tag_class, global_tag_name_table[type_or_id].tag_name
    end
    return type(global_tag_id_table[type_or_id]) == "table" and global_tag_id_table[type_or_id][tagname]
end