roadmap.md

Ignition Roadmap

This page describes planned work for Ignition. The set of planned features and development efforts should provide insight into the overall direction of Ignition. If you would like to see other features on the roadmap, then please get in touch with us at [email protected].

Quarterly Roadmap

2022 Q1 (Jan - Mar) / Q2 (Apr - Jun) - ongoing

• Out-of-box experience: Improve end-user experience
  • All open tickets
  • Status

Feature Roadmap

A number of features are planned for specific releases of Ignition. The features listed here derive from the Quarterly Roadmap, listed above, and other ongoing projects. See the Release Features page for a list of features already available in each release of Ignition.

A named release of Ignition, such as Acropolis or Blueprint, is tied to a set of library major versions. Our development and release pattern allows us to distribute patch and minor updates into a stable Ignition version. For example, if a new feature does not break API/ABI then we will target the feature to the oldest compatible non-EOL release and propagate the feature forward.

Citadel

1. Quick start dialog.
2. Splash screen.
3. Bash completion

Fortress

1. Run server and client in the same process.
2. Command line: use binaries instead of shared libraries
3. Bounding box camera.
4. GUI model editor
5. Bazel build files.
6. Waves and hydrodynamics for water surface vehicles.
7. Save more changed components to SDF.
8. Improved Windows support.
9. Custom skybox from SDF.
10. Gz3D: support heightmaps, skybox and particles.

Garden

• Already available from source
  1. Point cloud visualization.
  2. Wide angle camera (Ogre 1).
  3. DEM heightmaps.
  4. Camera distortion.
  5. Wind effects configurable on a location basis.
• In progress
  1. Force/torque visualization.
  2. Reset API.
  3. Parameters in Ignition Transport.
  4. Satisfying ASAN for Ignition Math.
  5. Mimic joint type.
  6. Added mass in SDF.
  7. SDF APIs to prevent console logging.
  8. Renaming Ignition to Gazebo.
  9. glTF and GLB mesh support.
  10. Download Fuel models on the background
  11. Vulkan support (Ogre 2.3)
  12. Improve Bullet support.
  13. Generic physics tests.
  14. Custom rendering sensors.
  15. Autodesk Revit conversion to SDF.

Planned releases

Please see the Releases for the timeline of and information about future distributions.

Contributing to Ignition

Looking for something to work on, or just want to help out? Here are a few resources to get you going.

1. How to contribute guide.
2. Feature comparision list. This page lists the feature gaps between Gazebo classic and Ignition Gazebo.
3. Take a look at the various libraries, and the issue tracker associated with each.