Issue while running the following commands

[AdityaNikhil]

@jalagar
I am using ,

• windows 10
• Python: 3.7.9
• Node: 16.14.0

Edit 1:

All previous issues have been resolved. (Can be checked in the history of this thread)
(Installing the sha1 module using npm fixed all previous issues)

Edit 2:

Was trying to run it on custom layers. And I got the following error at step 2,
Link to the layers: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pEF-8L3msSm7jgDuN-D9X0fksY9bAv8f?usp=sharing
I request you to kindly run this and check on the layers I provided

ToDo

• Works on the layers provided with this repository.
• Should check how it works with custom layers.

Note for the owner

• Waiting for acknowledgement from the owner to keep this discussion active.
• The script runs too slow on high-resolution images (Which is expected). Maybe try finding ways to utilize GPU to boost the speed.
• I request you to kindly run this on the layers I provided above.

[jalagar]

Hi @AdityaNikhil! Thank you for trying the tool :)

Regarding your Edit 1 - did npm i not install sha1 at first? I'm wondering if there is something wrong with the configuration.

For your custom layers, I downloaded it and ran it and it worked with the following configs:

{
  "totalSupply": 4,
  "height": 600,
  "width": 600,
  "debug": false,
  "layersOrder": ["Background", "Body", "BodyElements"],
  "quality": 95,
  "framesPerSecond": 12,
  "numberOfFrames": 20,
  "saveIndividualFrames": false,
  "description": "Your description here",
  "baseUri": "ipfs://NewUriToReplace"
}

You had 20 frames total. One more note, your "Face" layer won't work because they need to be 600 x 600 .png with transparent background eyes, similar to what you did with BodyElements.

Also when you said "The script runs too slow on high-resolution images (Which is expected). Maybe try finding ways to utilize GPU to boost the speed.", what step runs the slowest? What resolution image did you use?

[AdityaNikhil]

@jalagar
Alright,
I have uploaded a new set of faces (Kindly check and retry)
Here's the output which is not as expected.

Ran it on the following configs,

{
  "totalSupply": 4,
  "height": 600,
  "width": 600,
  "debug": false,
  "layersOrder": ["Background", "Body", "Face","BodyElements"],
  "quality": 95,
  "framesPerSecond": 12,
  "numberOfFrames": 31,
  "saveIndividualFrames": false,
  "description": "Your description here",
  "baseUri": "ipfs://NewUriToReplace"
}

ISSUES

From the output,

• you can see that the character's shadow is a little distorted
• Needless to mention, GIFs are constantly 'MOVING'

QUERIES

• What's the right configuration?!
• Every time do we have to manually count the total number of frames to mention in the config JSON?!

HOW I RUN?!

• I am manually running step2 and step3.
• make all is posing an error after step1.

REGARDING EDIT 1

I had to manually install packages, the command was not working at least for me. (Might work for others)

[jalagar]

Hi so the "numberOfFrames" should be the number of frames in your layer. So in your case you have 20 frames in MultiLights (you missed 2.png so that's why it goes from 0-20). It worked when I ran it with my configurations above.

Also I saw in your Face layer: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f3fKKhz-3bASRFAwzU5tF_5opDnRfQ15 there are 2 .png files in each folder. That won't work currently, you either will need 1 .png or 20 .png files. I have filed an issue ticket #10 and will work on allowing you to pass in any number of layer images and it will be smart enough to duplicate them to reach numberOfFrames. But that might be what's causing the issue with the Face layer. Try remove it from layersOrder for now.

What error are you getting when running make all? Also regarding Edit 1 I wonder if its because you're on Windows and I'm on Mac OSX. I'll investigate later (tasked it here #11)

[jalagar]

@AdityaNikhil I fixed the code so now it will handle your 2 image layers. It basically looks tries to smartly repeat the layers until you get exactly numberOfFrames number of frames. If there are too many layers, it will trim it down to numberOfFrames. Here's the PR: #13. Please pull the latest code.

Here's your cool robots:

I used this config to generate your robots

{
  "totalSupply": 4,
  "height": 600,
  "width": 600,
  "debug": false,
  "layersOrder": ["Background", "Body", "BodyElements", "Face"],
  "quality": 95,
  "framesPerSecond": 12,
  "numberOfFrames": 20,
  "saveIndividualFrames": false,
  "description": "Your description here",
  "baseUri": "ipfs://NewUriToReplace"
}

[jalagar]

In the meantime @AdityaNikhil I'd recommend play around with generating different shadow textures and generating the gifs on your end. It could be how you're creating the layers to begin with/

[AdityaNikhil]

Yup alright..!

[jalagar]

@AdityaNikhil great news I got it to work. I rewrote step3 to use imageio instead of PIL (though the underlying algorithm is the same) and it worked beautifully for your robots

Here's the config I used:

{
  "totalSupply": 12,
  "height": 600,
  "width": 600,
  "debug": false,
  "layersOrder": ["Background", "Body", "BodyElements", "Face"],
  "framesPerSecond": 12,
  "numberOfFrames": 20,
  "saveIndividualFrames": false,
  "description": "Your description here",
  "baseUri": "ipfs://NewUriToReplace"
}

Please pull the latest changes, run make first_time_setup and run make all. Let me know if it doesn't work I'm constantly improving it.

[AdityaNikhil]

@jalagar Ahh... Beautiful man!!!🤩
Just what I wanted. I'll play around with adjusting speeds.

Kudos to your hard work..!🎉🎉

[jalagar]

You're welcome! Feel free to follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/jalagar_eth where I'll post updates on the project as well as other projects I'm working on