Re: [Playerstage-developers] Stage entities

[ahoward <ah...@po...>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Richard Vaughan wrote:

> sounds ok to me. perhaps we can make a vision_beacon macro that creates a
> small round box. the vision beacons are kinds useful.

Which begs the question: how should we distribute 'non-primitive' entities
(i.e., composite entities defined in world files).  I'm thinking they
should get installed somewhere so that users can make use of them via the
as-yet-unimplemented include statement.  Hence the examples directory is
probably not the right place.  Should we put them in an include/ dir,
perhaps?

	A.


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> R/
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> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, ahoward wrote:
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> > Hi folks:
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> > Here is my proposed list of entities to be documented for this release:
> >
> > Non-devices:
> >
> > environment
> > box (non-moveable object)
> > puck (moveable object)
> > laserbeacon
> >
> > Devices:
> >
> > broadcast
> > gps
> > gripper
> > laser
> > lbd
> > misc
> > player
> > position
> > ptz
> > sonar
> > truth
> > vision
> >
> > I have omitted some devices, such as the mote, since they are not yet
> > ready for general use, and other devices, such as HRL's stuff, since they
> > cannot be released.  Everything else will probably get disappeared,
> > including the vision_beacon entity, which is now redundant (just make a
> > colored box).
> >
> > Any other devices I've forgotten?  Alternative names for any of the above?
> >
> > 	A.
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> Richard Vaughan
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Andrew Howard                           email: ah...@po...
Department of Computer Science          http:  www-robotics.usc.edu/~ahoward
University of Southern California       phone: 1 (213) 740 6416
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. 90089-0781      fax:   1 (213) 740 7512
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