As I had much problems with gazebo under fuerte I decieded to try out groovy with gazebo 1.3. But it won´t spawn a simple object.
Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 1.3.0
Copyright (C) 2012 Nate Koenig, John Hsu, and contributors.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org
Warning [parser.cc:361] Converting a deprecated SDF source[/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo_worlds/worlds/empty.world].
Set SDF value
Version[1.2] to Version[1.3]
Please use the gzsdf tool to update your SDF files.
$ gzsdf convert [sdf_file]
Msg Waiting for master.Msg Waiting for master
Msg Connected to gazebo master @ http://127.0.0.1:11345
Msg Publicized address: 192.168.2.4
[ INFO] [1364762386.117130304]: waitForService: Service [/gazebo/set_physics_properties] has not been advertised, waiting...
Msg Connected to gazebo master @ http://127.0.0.1:11345
Msg Publicized address: 192.168.2.4
[ INFO] [1364762387.522566147]: joint trajectory plugin missing <updateRate>, defaults to 0.0 (as fast as possible)
Error [ModelDatabase.cc:159] No <database> tag in the model database manifest.xml found here[http://gazebosim.org/models/]
Error [ModelDatabase.cc:211] Unable to download model manifests
The following command keeps running:
rosrun gazebo spawn_model -file object.urdf -urdf -z 1 -model my_object
I tried to convert the empy.world with gzsdf tool but I could not locate the tool..
