gazebo urdf tutorial robots not visible
Hello, I am virtualizing in virtual box a copy of ubuntu 11.10 for a robotics class. I have ros electric installed. I have 3d acceleration enabled. My problem is whenever I load a model from the urdf tutorials into gazebo, such as the visual robot, it is not rendered. Either nothing is rendered or only the root link is rendered. \ Simple objects such as the tables or primitives are rendered.
Please be more specific when asking a question, i.e. reference models you are having trouble with. In general, if you would like to dynamically simulate things in gazebo, you need to add physical properties (e.g. inertial elements), see http://ros.org/wiki/urdf/Tutorials/Adding%20Physical%20and%
One of the models was called visual, which was my reference. its the end result of the building a visual robot model in urdf from scratch. its in the urdf_tutorial package with the model name 05-visual.urdf. Do all links need physical properties to be visible or only the main link?
all links.