gazebosim / gazebosim/sdformat
Add SDF elements for transparency, wireframe, etc...
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- C++
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Description
**Original report ([archived issue](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/issues/217)) by Peter Mitrano (Bitbucket: [peter_mitrano](https://bitbucket.org/%7Bf79f793e-4f31-4c61-9df2-190b239e0bf2%7D/)).**
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# Summary
I would like in my world file to indicate that gazebo should start as if I went to `view`/`transparent` in the menu.
# Motivation
I am using the gazebo marker to show some markers, and sometimes those markers appear inside obstacles. This means I often start gazebo and then immediately set the view to transparent, so I can debug things. I would expect to write something like:
```xml
0 0 25 0 1.5707 1.5707
true
true
... anything else in that menu
model://ground_plane
model://sun
...
...
```
# Describe alternatives you've considered
Make the actual models transparent, but then I would need different models for debugging or not which is bad.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the SDF world-file example in the issue and trace how the and proposed elements are represented and parsed. Define the supported transparency, wireframe, and related view settings, then verify that a world file can express them unambiguously.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100