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RosGzPointCloud Not Loading #549

Open BobbieZain opened 1 month ago

BobbieZain commented 1 month ago

Environment

OS Version: Ubuntu 22.04
Binary build: ROS2 Humble 2.5.5-1jammy.20240404.154053| Gazebo Fortress 6.16.0

Description

Expected behavior: The depth image can be seen in image display
Actual behavior: The image display cannot be dropped down and the plugin is not correctly loaded

Steps to reproduce

1.Go to ros_gz_point_cloud/examples 2.Run ign gazebo -r examples/depth_camera.sdf

Output

Error message: [Err] [SystemLoader.cc:94] Failed to load system plugin [RosGzPointCloud] : couldn't find shared library. Screenshot:

BobbieZain commented 1 month ago

Hello, do I need to install the RosGzPointCloud library? If so, how?

azeey commented 1 month ago

The PointCloud plugin is unfortunately in a broken state right now. There's a COLCON_IGNORE file in the package.

A workaround for this is to use ros_gz_bridge to bridge point cloud messages from Gazebo to ROS. Here is an example.