A wizard written in python that helps in creating realistic terrains for Gazebo with appropriate textures and lighting. Terrains are generated using the heightmap provided by the user which is stored either on disk or as a URL.
Heightmaps are basically rasterized images that contain information about surface elevations. Using this elevation information we can create beautiful terrains.
The wizard basically does the following:
- Asks you simple questions regarding the model
- Resizes the input image to 2n+1 x 2n+1 pixels and converts it into grayscale
- Creates the model and saves it in your
.gazebo/modelsfolder - Creates a
.worldfile at the destination path provided by the user
- Python
- Gazebo 7.0 or higher
- lxml
- urllib
Install the required files to run on your local system:
-
Cloning the repository
git clone https://github.com/Sarath18/terrain_generator -
lxml
sudo pip install lxml -
urllib
sudo pip install urllib