Error when generating metadata

[jorian]

Found this repo after a search for generating artwork using Rust and it seems what I am looking for. But I can't get it to work after trying a quick test.

Could not create weighted index, are any odds less than 0?

I tried looking in the code to see what made it not work, but I don't understand what your goal is with the different sets of attributes using "_" and "_key" as keys. It seems that when I run the code using the provided config.example.json , that the so-called 'rawkeys' (`""`) don't make it to the part where a WeightedIndex is made, for example:

    "background": {
      "_": {
        "blue.png": 0.04,
        "brown.png": 0.04,
        "flesh.png": 0.05,
        "green.png": 0.02
      }
    },

Then it crashes because it complains there are no values:

[src/metadata.rs:118] &weights = []
thread 'main' panicked at 'Could not create weighted index, are any odds less than 0?: NoItem', src/metadata.rs:121:10

(I added some dbg! statements, the crash happens when WeightedIndex::new() is called)

Could you explain what the idea is behind your code? Why the use of _ and _key and _key:alchemist?

EDIT: I see that the underscores basically preclude the names from the eventual metadata that is generated for the NFT, but it doesn't make much sense in the code for me.

[Kalissaac]

Sorry I've made a lot of changes recently and haven't updated the example config to match it. You shouldn't need to use the _ key any more, you can just include your layers in the top-level key such as below:

    "background": {
      "blue.png": 0.04,
      "brown.png": 0.04,
      "flesh.png": 0.05,
      "green.png": 0.02
    },

(This requires the latest version of resin, so please make you install the latest from git (cargo install --git https://github.com/worldies/resin))

The idea behind the _key and _key:alchemist was to match certain entries based on other layers that were rolled previously. In the context of the example config, this means that if the generator selects a value of alchemist when it calculates the _key property, the only available key when it calculates face property will be alchemist-face.png (since it's inside the _key:alchemist subproperty). You definitely don't need to use it, and it will work perfectly fine if you just have a flat layout (like the one below):

        "background": {
            "blue.png": 0.04,
            "brown.png": 0.04,
            "flesh.png": 0.05,
            "green.png": 0.02
        },
        "face": {
            "cyan-face.png": 0.07,
            "dark-green-face.png": 0.04
        },
        "eyes": {
            "egg-eyes.png": 0.3,
            "heart-eyes.png": 0.12,
            "square-eyes.png": 0.02
        },
        "mouth": {
            "block-mouth.png": 0.23,
            "smile-mouth.png": 0.09
        }

I'm going to work on adding better examples and documentation soon, but please follow up if this was unclear or you have more questions!

[jorian]

It was clear, but still failing! I figured out what was wrong though, the guaranteedAttributeRolls are never stripped of their suffix. So either remove the suffix from the config.json or strip the suffix in metadata::generate.

The idea behind the _key and _key:alchemist was to match certain entries based on other layers that were rolled previously. In the context of the example config, this means that if the generator selects a value of alchemist when it calculates the _key property, the only available key when it calculates face property will be alchemist-face.png (since it's inside the _key:alchemist subproperty).

This is quite useful!

[Kalissaac]

Oh that's a good catch, thank you! Definitely looks like I need to expand the test suite.