I changed my system's language to french once, some things have never changed back

This isn’t a new idea by any means, there’s tons of projects and literature out there for using proxy dlls for everything (including game hacking). DLLs that do this are called “proxy” dlls. In cases where I wanted to add my own logic, I could intercept any function call I wanted and insert that logic before or after calling the real D3D11.dll’s function. For functions I didn’t want to add any additional sauce to, my code would call the real dll’s version of that function and return the result. This dll would sit in between the game code and the real version of d3d11.dll. My plan was to create my own dll, call it d3d11.dll, and place it in the same directory as Skyrim’s executable. I knew that Skyrim uses DirectX 11 for it’s renderer, which means that it loads d3d11.dll during startup. Whenever a program loads a DLL by name, it looks in a number of pre-set locations for that DLL, and loads the first one it finds. Instead of injecting a dll containing the code to draw a triangle, I decided to abuse Windows’ DLL search order to get Skyrim to load a dll full of my code during startup. I’ve built a few projects that have used process injection to get programs to run code they didn’t intend to, so for this project I decided to try something new. Note: you're looking for modern c++, clean code or best practices, turn back nowĪs usual with things I write about, all the code for this project is up on github, so if you just want to see the code, have at it! DLL Hijacking is the New DLL Injection

Skyrim post process injector