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This question and the docs pointed me to $GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH as being the environment variable to change to include models in a gazebo world. However, I am getting an error.

This is my current tree structure: 

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├── CMakeLists.txt
├── model
│   └── robot
│       ├── model.config
│       └── model.sdf
├── script
│   └── hello.cpp
└── worlds
    ├── empty.world
    └── myworld

My GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH is: 

$ $ echo $GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH
:/home/self/workspace/build_my_world/model/robot:

But when I run gazebo I get an error. 

$ gazebo worlds/myworld 
Error [parser.cc:652] Could not find model.config or manifest.xml for the model
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  std::bad_alloc

This is what I have in myworld file: 

   1 <sdf version='1.6'>
   2   <world name='default'>
   3     
   4     <include>
   5       <pose frame=''>0 0 30 0 0 0</pose>
   6       <uri>model://model</uri>
   7     </include>
   8

The final problem is that even if I remove the model in the world file, entering gazebo doesn't launch the application. There's NO output either.

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First, you should add to $GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH the base directory of your model collection, /home/self/workspace/build_my_world/model.

Second, you should refer to your model by the name of its subdirectory, robot in this case.

Third, you should close the <world> and <sdf> tags at the end of the file.

It's also advisable to add the sun and ground_plane models to your world.

So in summary, what you should have is the following:

$ echo $GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH
:/home/self/workspace/build_my_world/model

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<sdf version='1.6'>
  <world name='default'>
    <include>
      <uri>model://sun</uri>
    </include>
    <include>
      <uri>model://ground_plane</uri>
    </include>
    <include>
      <pose frame=''>0 0 0 0 0 0</pose>
      <uri>model://robot</uri>
    </include>
  </world>
</sdf>
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  • $\begingroup$ Forgot to mention that I truncated the world file. It is over 3000 lines long. $\endgroup$ – heretoinfinity Apr 25 '20 at 14:58
  • $\begingroup$ Is the colon : still part of the $GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH? Running gazebo still doesn't do anything. $\endgroup$ – heretoinfinity Apr 25 '20 at 15:03
  • $\begingroup$ It is, but more importantly, you must make sure that Gazebo is reading the variable. Are you launching it from the same session where you exported it? $\endgroup$ – xperroni Apr 25 '20 at 15:13
  • $\begingroup$ I thought so but I can't check now since I restarted the virtual machine. I also realized that there was a bash variable that wasn't set to anything so the path had two // where a directory needed to have been included. $\endgroup$ – heretoinfinity Apr 25 '20 at 15:21
  • $\begingroup$ I thought so but I can't check now since I restarted the virtual machine. I also realized that by doing the export in the .bashrc that there was a bash variable that wasn't set to anything so the path had two // where I expected /build_my_world/. I sourced .bashrc and I didn't see the missing directory when I echoed. $\endgroup$ – heretoinfinity Apr 25 '20 at 15:28

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