Traits

The building blocks of your collection

The traits are the individual images that make up the layers of the final images in your collection. The traits are separated into groups, called 'trait types'. Typically, each image in your collection is made up of one trait from each trait type (however, this doesn't have to be the case).

For example, your traits could be split into the following types: 'Background', 'Clothing', 'Head' and 'Expression', with traits in each type as shown below.

When creating your traits in GeneratOrd, you have two options:

• Provide Inscription ID's to images that have already been inscribed (details here)

• Upload Images and let GeneratOrd inscribe your traits for you (details here)

Or, you can do a combination of both. GeneratOrd will only inscribe the traits where you upload an image.

Example of a set of Trait Types, and Traits within each Trait Type

All traits must be one of the following file formats: WEBP, JPEG, PNG, APNG, AVIF, GIF and SVG.

However, we recommend using WEBP or SVG, as these typically result in the smallest file sizes, resulting in lower inscription costs.

Animated images, such as GIF's or APNG's will not animate properly, so we do not recommend using them.

However, animated images can be used for 1/1's (items with only one trait) and they will animate properly.

Creating your Trait Types

When you upload your traits as Images, or upload trait ID's through a JSON file, your trait types will be created automatically for you, however, you can also create them manually. To do this, simply click the Create Trait Type button in the top right.

Click the Create Trait Type button to create an empty trait type

This will create an empty trait type with a default name. To rename it, click on the name of the trait type, or click the More Actions > Rename button. Under the More Actions menu, you can also delete the trait type. Be careful though, deleting a trait type will also delete all the traits within that group. The More Actions menu can be found to the right of the trait type, the button with the 3 dots (⋮) as highlighted below.

The More Actions menu on each trait type allows you to rename or delete the trait type

Upload traits as images

To upload your traits as images, you can either drag and drop the images, or click the Add/Add Traits buttons.

If you drag and drop a folder, then the traits are automatically put into trait types according to the folder the images are in. If you drag and drop images, then they are added to the trait type you drop them in (or added to a default trait type if you don't drop them on a trait type).

You can also click the Add Traits > Upload Folder button as shown below. This will allow you to select a folder from your file system and the traits are added to trait type according to the folder names.

To upload a folder of images, click Add Traits > Upload Folder, which adds the traits to trait types according to the folder structure

Alternatively, you can click Add > Upload Images on a specific trait type, allowing you to choose images to add to that trait type, as shown below.

To add images to a specific trait type, click Add > Upload Images on the header of the trait type

Typically, the easiest way to upload your traits is to sort them into folders according to trait type on your computer as shown below. Then, you can simply upload the entire top level folder. In this case, uploading the traits folder will result in all images being uploaded, already sorted into the correct trait type.

Use Inscription ID's for traits

Add Inscription ID's Manually

To add inscription ID's manually, click the Add > Add Inscription ID's button located to the right of the trait type you want to add traits to. In the example below, we are adding traits to the Background trait type.

Add Inscription ID's by clicking Add > Add Inscription ID's on the header of the trait type you want to add traits to

This will open a dialog window as shown below. Enter the name and Inscription ID for each of the traits you're adding. You can add as many or as few traits as you wish. To add extra rows, click the Add New button, allowing you to enter in more traits. Alternatively, you can click the Delete buttons on the right to remove a trait. When you're done, click the Add button to add them to the trait type.

Add Inscription ID's dialog, allowing you to add the inscription ID's of your traits

Upload ID's in a JSON File

Adding inscription ID's one by one through the UI can be tedious. To make this easier, we also allow you to upload all your trait ID's at once, in a JSON file. This file has the following format:

{
  "<trait_type>": {
    "<trait_name>": "<inscription_id>",
    "<trait_name>": "<inscription_id>",
    ...
  },
  "<trait_type>": {
    "<trait_name>": "<inscription_id>",
    "<trait_name>": "<inscription_id>",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

Here is a completed example of the traits JSON file (Note: the ID's in this example are not real).

To upload this file, click Add Traits > Upload Inscription ID's in the top right.

Click the Add Traits > Upload Inscription ID's button in the top right to upload a JSON file containing the inscription ID's of your traits

Editing Traits

If you edit the image for a trait after it is uploaded, you can simply replace the image by clicking More Actions > Replace Image on the trait you want to replace. The More Actions button is the button with 3 dots (⋮) next to the trait name as highlighted below. You can choose to replace with an image, or and inscription ID. Under the More Actions menu, you can also delete the trait, or rename it.

The More Actions menu of each trait allows you to Rename, Replace Image or Delete the trait. The trait can be replaced with either an uploaded image, or an inscription ID

Inscribing your Traits

Once you have uploaded all your images, you can inscribe your traits by clicking More Actions > Inscribe Traits as highlighted below. This will open a dialog which is described in detail on the Inscribing Page. However, you do not have to do this. You can continue working on your collection, and inscribe everything together in the Inscribe tab. It is simpler, and slightly cheaper to inscribe everything together in the Inscribe tab, however, you may choose to inscribe the traits separately to take advantage of low fee rates, as the traits are typically the most costly part of inscribing.

Once the traits are inscribed, they cannot be changed (unless you reinscribe them, adding extra cost). So, we recommend finalising your metadata before inscribing your traits, as it is common to need to make adjustments to the traits after seeing them combined into completed images.

GeneratOrd will only inscribe the traits which do not have inscription ID's. For example, if you upload 50 traits as images, and add 40 traits with inscription ID's, then only the 50 images will be inscribed.

If you have already inscribed your traits, and wish to add more, simply upload them as images, then inscribe again. GeneratOrd will only inscribe the new traits you added.