Feature Request: Starting Time Argument

[gleasonj-lm]

I would like to be able to specify a starting time, or an offset, to the oceanwaters simulation to accommodate for different shadow conditions created at different points in Europa's orbit around Jupiter. Ideally, I would like to be able to specify this starting time as an argument to a launch file like I might specify use_rviz. However I am not sure that arguments are allowed in the world files. Currently we use a bash script to alter the sim time in the desired world file and then launch.

Is adding a command-line style argument to augment the starting simulation time possible?

[mogumbo]

I was about to reply that this is not possible with Gazebo. However, this feature was just added: gazebosim/gazebo-classic#3294 I haven't tried it myself. Also, this is now in the gazebo11 branch but there probably hasn't been a new release of gazebo11 in the past week. In the short term if you want to use it you will need to compile gazebo yourself.

[kmdalal]

@gleasonj-lm , this is an old issue and I'm wondering if you've found a solution or workaround? Did you try the gazebo11 suggestion in the previous comment?

[kmdalal]

Closing this issue because it's so old. I have captured it in our internal Jira OCEANWATER-1213. Please re-request if this is still needed.