Animated human characters in Gazebo

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That's correct. We fell behind maintaining the character animation code. We will revise the code sometime after June. Please fork gazebo, and start work on the animation code if you need it sooner.

@nkoenig So what would forking actually involve? Updating SDF and writing some new plugins?

Forked discussion to here: http://answers.gazebosim.org/question/3426/reimplementing-character-animation/

Has this been updated to work again? What about animating a non-human character like a simple box?

It's not working yet. You can animate a box using the [Entity::SetAnimation](http://gazebosim.org/api/2.2.1/classgazebo_1_1physics_1_1Entity.html#a0ba2d580de851fabb0ef90f8e53bedcd) function

I found a tutorial that says it applies "to Gazebo versions 8+" so it appears this feature is making a comeback