Can't see my robot in Gazebo

[chotabomj]

Right after simulation UI have changed I started facing problems with it.
When I launch my robot into my world, gazebo successfully loads models from the world, but I can’t see my robot, even though all it’s nodes are there. Same thing happends then I try to launch my robot into existing world.

[u1802520]

hi @chotabomj, welcome to the community!
i experienced the same problem with my meshes, have a look to this post:

Launch file won't spawn my tb3 burger

Hi, Probably is because the mesh models are not in a package called WHATEVER_decription (ending in description). The RODS system copies those packages as well as everything inside a …/models folder into the system available folder for the WebVisualiser. We are working on a replacement for it, but for the time being, you have to put all the meshes inside a package called for example t3_description of in a models folder inside any package.

[chotabomj]

Thank you for your response.
I tried creating new package for my xacro folder and meshes folder with _description at the end as you suggested, but the model still doesn’t show up.

My other robot model without meshes loads just fine, so I tried replacing meshes with box visuals, but it still doesn’t work.

[u1802520]

could you send me your package so i can test locally and have a better look?
here is my mail
u1802520@unimilitar.edu.co

[marco.nc.arruda]

Hi @chotabomj ,

There is also another possibility which is related to the zooming of gzclient
Could you try the solution shown here:

Gray screen for Real Robot Lab simulation on ROS Basics project (gzclient)

Ok, the “problem” is that the user_camera on the GUI was just too close to the simulation. It can be solved in two ways: Zoom out (just by zooming out you should be able to see the simulation properly) Change the user_camera position in the realrobotlab_v1.world file if you don’t want to zoom out each time you open the simulation To change the world file, just open the realrobotlab_simulation/realrobotlab/worlds/realrobotlab_v1.world file and look where the user_camera is defined by looking…

Please, let me know if it’s solved