Sounds reasonable. I'm less familiar with the ROS codebase, myself, but I've noticed some references to [assimp](
https://github.com/assimp/assimp) around the ROS repos, and [this issue](
https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3/issues/1156) (in the bullet physics repo?) has discussions around gazebo using assimp to load models, as well.
If that's true, then this may be as simple as extending the spec to include another model format. I'd almost suggest just allowing anything that assimp can load (if it's actually that easy), but I actually like the constrained list of formats because that makes it easier to consume the format on other platforms (we're visualizing these models using THREE.js and javascript, as well). To me, all that's missing is a simple to export, terse, binary geometry format.
Thanks!
Garrett
---
[Visit Topic](
https://discourse.ros.org/t/support-the-ply-geometry-format-in-urdf/4325/3) or reply to this email to respond.
If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates.
______________________________________________________________________________
ros-users mailing list
ros-users@lists.ros.org
http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
Unsubscribe: <
http://lists.ros.org/mailman//options/ros-users>
(text/plain)