Colours in Gazebo 5 are always shown white

asked 2016-02-25 07:24:12 -0500

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Hi everybody,

It's the simplest problem I've faced, but I'm not able to solve it. I'm working with an urdf file with Gazebo 5. The problem is that in Gazebo the colours doesn't appear as I want, they always appear white:

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However, adding a model from the gazebo database works right and the colors are shown properly. I think the problem is in the urdf file, but I don't know where the mistake is. When I was working with Gazebo 2 the colors from worked propely but when I moved to Gazebo 5 they don't work.

Thanks!!

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I have this problem too. To have colour on my link, I use dae meshes which contain the texture.

Brosseau.F ( 2016-02-26 01:38:36 -0500 )edit

I have the same problem. But it looks like *not* all of the colors from the standard models are shown as well. Have you managed to solve this problem?

ZhekaS ( 2016-05-28 22:49:02 -0500 )edit

Having the same issue. I filed a bug report because it seems like no one has solved it... https://bitbucket.org/osrf/sdformat/issues/132/parser-does-not-handle-urdf-material

plusk01 ( 2017-01-05 00:32:06 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-05-30 08:24:10 -0500

ZhekaS
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Gazebo is using it's own materials to display the appearance of the links. You need to add a gazebo-specific material tag to each one of your links:

<gazebo reference="imu_link">
    <material>Gazebo/Red</material>
</gazebo>

Here in reference gives the name of your link. You can find the available materials in your gazebo installation: gazebo/media/materials/scripts/gazebo.material IMPORTANT: I've found out that the material tag should go exactly like this, without any extra spaces around the Gazebo/Red string. Otherwise it is just silently ignored and your link is appearing white..

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