Allow to change camera user hfov in camera_view plugin

[ahcorde]

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Hernández Cordero [email protected]

🎉 New feature

Set the user camera's horizontal fov through the View Angle plugin.

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[iche033]

I think the previous PR was closed due to crashes on the gz-rendering side. It don't know if it's still be an issue. Maybe @jennuine has more info.

• Update: just remembered I was able to reproduce the crash by manually changing the <horizontal_fov> tag

[jennuine]

I think the previous PR was closed due to crashes on the gz-rendering side. It don't know if it's still be an issue. Maybe @jennuine has more info.

• Update: just remembered I was able to reproduce the crash by manually changing the <horizontal_fov> tag

Correct, we closed the original PR because it was exposing this bug gazebosim/gz-rendering#710
The crash occurs when you set the HFOV to high (e.g., 150) then move the camera away. For more details: #1499 (review)

[iche033]

here's more info about the crash from debugging: gazebosim/gz-rendering#710 (comment). I think the short term workaround is to set some bounds on the camera pos.

[azeey]

We discussed adding a limit in the ViewAngle plugin on the hfov users can set so as to reduce the chances of running into the gazebosim/gz-rendering#710 bug. But it seems to me a more reliable solution would be to limit the maximum distance of the camera from the origin per this comment. @iche033, is that fairly trivial to do?

[iche033]

yeah in gz-rendering, we can just limit pose of nodes in Ogre2Node: https:/gazebosim/gz-rendering/blob/gz-rendering7/ogre2/src/Ogre2Node.cc#L107-L113. We just need to figure out a reasonable max value to limit the pos to.

[iche033]

limit max FOV to PI in 948d28f. Together with gazebosim/gz-rendering#827, gz-sim should no longer crash

[ahcorde]

Thank you for the fix @iche033