Terrain Generator

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.

       

Working

The wizard basically does the following:

• Asks you simple questions regarding the model
• Resizes the input image to 2ⁿ+1 x 2ⁿ+1 pixels and converts it into grayscale
• Creates the model and saves it in your .gazebo/models folder
• Creates a .world file at the destination path provided by the user

Requirements

• Python
• Gazebo 7.0 or higher
• lxml
• urllib

Installation

Install 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