Gazebo Newsletter 4 August 2016

Tip of the month

Toggle the pause state of Gazebo using the space bar, just as you would almost any media player.

Development

It is summer time, which means many people on vacation. As a result development news is on the light side.

• Video recorder

  A new pull request to Gazebo adds the ability to record the user camera to a video file.

• Visual plugin

  Check out this world file and plugin for example on how to manipulate visual elements in Gazebo.

Featured Model

A new delta wing model is under development, and will soon be made available through the model database.

Releases

• Ignition Transport 2.0.0
• Ignition Messages 0.5.0
• Ignition Math 2.5.0
• Ignition Common 0.1.0
• Gazebo 7.3.1

Bugs

• Open
  • Gazebo(954)
  • SDFormat(73)
• Critical
  • Gazebo(30)
  • SDFormat(2)
• Featured Issue

  Gazebo Issue #963: Add support for bullet3 (GPU-accelerated physics)

Questions and Answers

Most recent active questions

• Plugin to find pose of a robot
• Implementation of a Ground Sensing Sensor
• Avoid long first start of gazebo
• Heightmaps aren't loading in Gazebo7
• kobuki base keeps shaking in gazebo > v2