Great to hear that people want to contribute. Right now I'm in the middle of moving Gazebo over to Ogre3d. But there are quite a few things that can be done.
As Luis pointed out, Gazebo is lacking an easy way to construct a world or a model. Here is what I envision. A new GUI should be created that allows a user to place models into the environment. The GUI should save a world file, allow the user to run the simulation, and make changes as necessary. This will require some work, potentially from a few people. If one or more people want to tackle this, then we need to discuss a few things: 1) What gui toolkit is preferable? 2) Should we use opal? This is an important question, it seems like an very interesting project, and they already have a physics editor in development. Here is a link to the website: http://ox.slug.louisville.edu/~o0lozi01/opal_wiki/index.php/Main_Page 3) Should this app be separate from the main simulator, or integrated (pause the simulation and you can start editing things)? The gazebo interface to player needs some improvements as well. We need full support of the simulation interface, as well as exporting geometries of the various models. There is always room for more sensors and models. Such as a touch sensor, someone can work on a light sensor, how about a model of the roomba. If you want to work on something, please let the mailing list know what you are doing. Ask for suggestions, help, pointers. I will give out CVS access to those who can first show me some decent code. As far as the patches that were submitted, I am not really satisfied with using xode. It is has been hacked to fit a robot simulator. It was never meant to handle the concepts of sensors and control code. Opal might offer a better solution, but I need other people's opinion on the matter. And as always, if you have ideas for changing gazebo or adding to it, please speak up or submit code. -nate On 8/9/06, Douglas Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we'd all like to contribute. I'm not sure what I could contribute > since I haven't even got it running yet.....but I certainly would do > whatever I could. Do you need a project manager? :-) > > > > On 8/9/06, Luis Manso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Jordi > > > > I've been using gazebo during the last two years, and I've found that > > gazebo has a great problem (actually is an obvious fact): the creation > > of new models is a troublesome task. Robotics is a field without > > standard hardware and it should be *really* easy to make new models. > > > > I would like to contribute with the development of gazebo if needed. > > > > > > On 8/8/06, Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > It seems that Gazebo development has stalled. > > > Nate being the only with CVS write access and not having time to spend > in > > > the > > > Gazebo project. > > > > > > Surely Nate has a wish list for Gazebo that he can implement right now. > > > > > > I'm asking for two things: > > > First, I would like that Nate points out what should be done for Gazebo > > > (more > > > support for Player? change to Ogre3d or other? xml models? migrate to > ODE > > > 0.6? ). > > > Second, and MOST IMPORTANT that the patches sent for those new features > have > > > an easier way into Gazebo. I think that even trivial patches has > problems > > > getting into the tree. > > > > > > This way, new people can start developing new features. > > > > > > ^_^/ > > > Jordi > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > security? > > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > > > easier > > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Playerstage-gazebo mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/playerstage-gazebo > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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