I noticed that the joint->initial_position was being deprecated in SDF1.8, and we were referred to use state instead. https://github.com/osrf/sdformat/issues/470

However I also noticed that state->joint->angle did not work either, we checked the source code and it seems the functionality is commented out.

This code block for loading the joint positions are commented out: ModelState.cc#L90

And also here: Model.cc#L1378

Is there any plans to restore this functionality? or could you offer an alternative method to set the initial angle of a joint inside the SDF (not using plugins) ?