Comment by ipster_io | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ipster_io | Hacker News Reader

I am experimenting with NFTs. I found it hard to manually come up with unique traits by combining layers. As a dev you can easily write such a tool but I know some people who have asked me to do that for them so I decided to create a tool.

Simply name your image files accordingly, drag entire folder(s), define how many NFTs you wanna generate, size etc and it will do that for you in browser. It's in browser / offline so your images are not uploaded anywhere. You can also disconnected with the network if you are concerned...

The only thing I track are page views to see if the tool is at all useful.

This tool also create a ERC721 (OpenSea specific) metadata template if you wanna create your own smart contract and host metadata... but if you are creating small set of images its best to lazy mint on markets like OpenSea.

Hope it's useful to someone, somewhere out there.

P.S. I also create my own collection, its not for sale yet but if you are interested its here https://unwonted.io/art

I think this tool could be really useful outside of NFTs as well, eg. to generate a bunch of similar but different avatars.

Exactly, I focussed on NFTs to get the point across. Avatar creation is a great example. Also, I will be adding few more tools to the site for generative art.

The point you are getting across by focusing on NFTs is that you are just taking part in a big scam, and that you are destroying the environment.

If you want to get a point across other than that, stay far, far away from NFTs.

There is something called lazy minting. You are not doing anything unless someone is interested in buying your artwork. You mint when its needed. You can do this as a developer or even OpenSea lets you do this.

Also, different blockchains work differently.

Destroying the environment is not really a valid point.

The big ones do. And all of them rely on trading against blockchains that do destroy the environment. If you do anything to support any of this industry, you end up supporting destroying the environment. You can not escape this.

This is going to be a super useful tool!

How many layers would someone need to upload for each trait type? Wouldn't the number of unique NFTs that can be generated be constrained by the number of trait types and number of trait values per type?

Thanks, the number of combinations can be very large, it really depends on what you are expecting. trait type is picked on random so there will be outputs which are similar and then there will be some which are extremely rare. I generated quite a few and then picked some which I liked the most to showcase on opensea.

You can also use rarity flag 'r' or 'u' to give some traits much less of a chance to appear.

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