'NFC reader and writer in Unity using Skylanders portals'
This is my Unity project dedicated to creating an easy way to use the Skylanders Portal of Power in any project.
Currently I am able to have
- Multiple portals at the same time
- Read and write commands at the same time
- Create custom toys or use existing Skylanders
My program uses the Unity Input System to connect the portal as if it was a controller, then it can read and write to it as if you were using that way. By using the Player Input Manager and the Player Input components I was able to also tell the portals apart and create seperate UI elements to control them, which means that you could have each player have a portal in a game.
This project has many interesting aplications, but there is one problem. Every mainline console portal I own can be read and used with this system, but I cant find out why certain portals can be written to and other cant. Other scripts and projects that I have made and/or stole from others works with every portal including reading and writing.
If you have a soliution to this problem please yell at me, but for now I will work on other projects and come back in a few weeks to finish this project.
Watch how this system was made! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IGqruvz9E
Watch my origional video breakdown here! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ1t62T36xE&t=1045s
Cool people that got me started / good information
- https://github.com/mandar1jn
- https://github.com/silicontrip/SkyReader/blob/master/skylander.cpp
- https://support.activision.com/articles/skylanders-toy-faq
- https://www.darkspyro.net/skylanders/
Special Thanks to Marjin Kneppers (mandar1jn) for not killing me.
