I spent a lot of time in high school and college (2005-07) modifying the game Halo—a dark art I learned by finding experts willing to teach me.
I first approached David Skotnicki (TocaEdit) to ask how he added a knob to the Field of View in Halo. He taught me how to use TSearch and Cheat Engine to analyze the effects of in-game actions on locations in memory, how to find locations in code which accessed its values, how to reroute the game to use custom code, and how to package the edits into a VB6 app for distribution.
I set out to use this for a bit of vanity—to keep the camera floating behind