Changing the clipping distance for the UserCamera

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Original report (archived issue) by Steve Peters (Bitbucket: Steven Peters, GitHub: scpeters).

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The clipping distances for camera sensors can be changed via sdf parameters, but I don't see any way to change the clipping distances for the UserCamera. It would be nice to be able to set this from gzclient or from the <gui> element in a world file.

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Original comment by Nate Koenig (Bitbucket: Nathan Koenig).

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• changed state from "new" to "open"

I'll take this on.

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Original comment by Nate Koenig (Bitbucket: Nathan Koenig).

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• set assignee_account_id to "557058:095b1e12-74ed-4e20-b44f-2f0745b616e0"
• set assignee to "nkoenig (Bitbucket: nkoenig, GitHub: nkoenig)"

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Original comment by Steve Peters (Bitbucket: Steven Peters, GitHub: scpeters).

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gui interface added in pull request #2470

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Original comment by Shane Loretz (Bitbucket: Shane Loretz, GitHub: sloretz).

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pull request #2470 has been merged. Should this issue be resolved? What work is left to do?

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Original comment by Louise Poubel (Bitbucket: chapulina, GitHub: chapulina).

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I think all is left is setting it through SDF.

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Original comment by Louise Poubel (Bitbucket: chapulina, GitHub: chapulina).

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Another issue is that setting the clipping distance to zero on the GUI crashes Gazebo with:

[Err] [main.cc:34] Ogre Error:OGRE EXCEPTION(2:InvalidParametersException): Near clip distance must be greater than zero. in Frustum::setNearClipDistance at /build/ogre-1.9-mqY1wq/ogre-1.9-1.9.0+dfsg1/OgreMain/src/OgreFrustum.cpp (line 128)