[FEATURE] Generate based on metadata

[lakai]

Summary

Generate based off of metadata json.

Basic example

This would be a great feature if you've already generated a collection and would like another set of the same collection say in a different pose, or maybe if you wanted to make everything pixelated.

Motivation

This would be a great value add to long term holders of your collection.

[thepeanutgalleryandco]

@lakai How exactly would this work? Is this for the case where you generated a collection of 2500 as an example, then want to generate another 500 to take the total to 3000? Do you want to then generate items 2501 to 3000 and include the metadata into the current metadata.json file which only contains 1 to 2500 from the first generation?

I have recently added a startCollectionEditionFrom setting, which allows you to set the value to start the collection from, but when running the build command again, will delete the current build directory's items. You could just backup your current build directory, then set your startCollectionEditionFrom to 2501 in the above example with a growth edition size of 500, which will generate from 2501 to 3000. Then copy the metadata files, the images and the metadata.json content over to your backed up build directory.

It is a bit manual, but you can do this as a work around for the time being.