A wizard that generates terrains for Gazebo using height maps.
A wizard written in python that helps in creating realistic terrains for Gazebo with appropriate textures and lighting. Terrains are generated using the heightmap provided by the user which is stored either on disk or as a URL.
Heightmaps are basically rasterized images that contain information about surface elevations. Using this elevation information we can create beautiful terrains.
The wizard basically does the following:
.gazebo/models
folder.world
file at the destination path provided by the userInstall the required files to run on your local system:
Cloning the repository
git clone https://github.com/Sarath18/terrain_generator
lxml
sudo pip install lxml
urllib
sudo pip install urllib