Trying to learn how to get a data stream into flypt mover (Custom HOOK)

Hello everyone,

I have spent quite a number of hours trying to understand how to get a custom hook to work and I feel like I've exhausted the clues before me.
I am writing my own c++ program that will interface with a 14 bit encoder. As a stepping stone I am just trying to get the memory hook setup.
From my research it seems all I need to do is come up with the offset for my variable from the base memory address of my program.

After lots of trial and error I am left with a program that chatGPT helped me create with some addresses that dont line up with anything I can see in mover or cheat engine.
On top of that I cant use cheat engine to find any variables Ive created in my code (I use the cheat engine tutorials to increment or decrement my variable(i tried float, double, int). This leaves me to think I am fundamentally doing this wrong.

The code I will show below even gets the base address to be the same in mover for all digits except the last two(5 units difference). Super confusing.

Can anybody point me in the right direction to learn how this works? An example or some keyword to research and read up on? Any help would be much apprecieated.

Code:

#include <iostream>

// Declare and initialize global variables
int localVar = 42;
float findMe = 0;

int main() {
    // Calculate the memory address (base address) of the code
    uintptr_t codeBaseAddress = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(&main);

    // Obtain pointers to the variables
    int* localVarPtr = &localVar;
    float* findMePtr = &findMe;

    // Calculate the offsets
    uintptr_t localVarOffset = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(localVarPtr) - codeBaseAddress;
    uintptr_t findMeOffset = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(findMePtr) - codeBaseAddress;

    std::cout << "Memory Address (Base Address of Code): 0x" << std::hex << codeBaseAddress << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Offset for localVar: 0x" << localVarOffset << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Offset for findMe: 0x" << findMeOffset << std::endl;

    std::cout << "localVar Value: " << localVar << std::endl;
    std::cout << "findMe Value: " << findMe << std::endl;

    // Read and display memory address of findMe while it's greater than or equal to zero
    while (findMe >= 0) {
        // Display the memory address of findMe
        std::cout << "Memory Address of findMe: 0x" << std::hex << reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(findMePtr) << std::endl;
        std::cout << "findMe is still greater than 0. Enter a new value: ";
        std::cin >> findMe;
    }

    return 0;
}