Re: [PlayerStage-Gazebo] Re: Re: [Playerstage-users] light source

[Richard v. <va...@cs...>]

On 16-Nov-05, at 12:33 PM, Lucas Martins De Marchi wrote:

> Ok, but i'm working on an indoor ambient and don't like a "sun- 
> like" affect. I'm using blobcolor to search a specified color (a  
> small pink ball) and with that light i get shaded regions on that  
> ball, so cmvision works wrong. What is the right way to do this?

The right way to do this is to never assume you can get specific  
absolute values out of a robot sensor of any kind.

Having said that, you should be able to select a color of ball and  
parameters for CMVision that work quite well. Hey, it's just like  
using real robots! How about that?

Richard/



> Thanks again.
> Lucas
>
>
> >Hi Lucas, You should send Gazebo related questions to the Gazebo  
> mailing list. Gazebo only supports point lights right now. Try  
> placing >the light source far above your ground plane to simulate a  
> more "sun-like" affect.
>
> >nate
>
>
>  On 11/15/05, Lucas Martins De Marchi wrote:
> > I'm using gazebo and I don't want a single point light (like model
> > LightSource does). What model to use? Or, how can I get a smooth
> > ilumination?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lucas
> >

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Richard Vaughan
School of Computing Science / Simon Fraser University