I've successfully gotten the Gazebo 1.9/ROS Hydro to work on multiple computers (on both Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10), but when the Gazebo simulator pops up, the sky is just a light gray. I see in the screenshot that it's supposed to be blue with clouds - any idea what I'm missing in my installation? Thanks
Originally posted by nbanyk on Gazebo Answers with karma: 104 on 2014-06-24
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Hi,
your is not the problem. The sky is just optional and has to be enabled explicitly.
gazebo world files can contain a scene/sky block like:
<scene>
<sky>
<clouds>
<speed>12</speed>
</clouds>
</sky>
</scene>
This enables SkyX...(taken from empty_sky.world example)
have a look at the corresponding SDF regions for more information
sdf1.5 sky
Originally posted by evilBiber with karma: 881 on 2014-06-24
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Comment by Kurt Leucht on 2014-07-07:
Cool! Thanks for this answer! Is there a way to make the sky red instead of blue? I played with the color values inside the scene tag and I could get the ground to turn red, but the sky remained blue. Changing the ambient values inside the cloud tag didn't seem to have any effect. I'm using Gazebo 1.9.
Comment by nkoenig on 2014-07-07:
There currently isn't a hook to change the sky color and still have clouds. Please submit an issue to have this feature added to Gazebo.
Comment by Kurt Leucht on 2014-07-08:
Done. Thanks. Is there a way today in Gazebo 1.9 to change the sky color without clouds? Just wondering due to the wording in your comment above.
Comment by nkoenig on 2014-07-09:
You could try the SDF tag.
Comment by nbanyk on 2014-07-11:
thanks for the help!
Comment by hal9000 on 2015-03-19:
I'm having trouble with the sdf1.4 sky link in your answer above. Has this URL moved? Also, If I wanted to paint a real sun in the sky, where in the code should I start? Thanks!
Comment by evilBiber on 2015-06-10:
Hi, the URL moved... sdf specification can now be found under www.sdformat.org
I updated the url...