It stands for "Tarik Art Engine" (I used my real name, yes). It's a basic art generator for those guys who are obsessed with generating bunch of random art, aka NFTs based on assets (images) you provide. None-programmers will struggle a bit trying to run this program, just follow the instructions, and you should be good to go.

1. Installation
   You have to download NodeJS to you machine to run this software Clone the repository using git, or download if you are a psycho. Then, go to the downloaded folder and type the 3rd cmd which will install all the necessary dependecies.

git clone https://github.com/Txreq/tae-tool
cd ./tae-tool
npm install

2. Setup you assets
   

   • postioning
     First of all, you got to know the program won't position the assets for you magically, thus you have to do it your self.
     

   • naming
     To make the software regonize the image value and trait please name it that way:

   NOTE: Just keep the rarity right before the image extention

   [value]_[rarity].png
   - e.g: myValue_myRarity.png
   

   • add you custom rarities
     Of course your can add your own rarities and to do that head up to ./configs/main.json there you could find add rarities I have already added, delete them if you want and add yours

   "rarities": [
   	{ "key": "myRariy", "rate": { "up": 100, "down": 0 } }
   ]
   

   If you skiped all your math classes you will screw with the rate, take a look to this diagram to get an idea what the heck is the up & down values.

   
   

To get a better understanding how in world this piece of software runs, take a look on the assets folder and configs/main.json, or contact me

3. Ready to go!
   If everything has been set, you can run it with this command

node .
# or
node index.js

DONT EVER TRY TO GENERATE A HIGH AMOUNT OF ART WITH THIS PROGRAM IN LOCAL YOUR MACHINE.
I highly suggest for those pyschos who generates up to 1k, 10k, 100k images to do all what I have been said in a hosted virtual machine which has a good CPU and RAM.