Teaches how to use the visualization_msgs/Marker message to send points and lines to rviz. Interactive Markers: Getting Started This tutorial explains what Interactive Marker are and teaches you some of the basic concepts.

rviz is setup so that new displays can be added through plugins. In fact, even the built-in displays are loaded through the "default" plugin. The end result for you, the user, is that there is a way to load/unload plugins from the UI.

Teaches how to use the visualization_msgs/Marker message to send points and lines to rviz. Interactive Markers: Getting Started This tutorial explains what Interactive Marker are and teaches you some of the basic concepts.

The TF display shows the tf transform tree. There are three optional pieces of data to display: the frame name, the frame axes, and an arrow from the frame to its parent. If the axes are displayed, the X axis is indicated in red, the Y axis is indicated in green, and the Z axis is indicated in blue.

rviz prints a bunch of useful info at the start, like the Ogre version number, the RTT mode, etc. Plus lots of potentially-relevant warning and error messages. Include the rviz console output. If you have to leave some out to make it a reasonable …

A sphere list is a list of spheres with all the same properties except their positions. Using this object type instead of a visualization_msgs/MarkerArray allows rviz to batch-up rendering, which causes them to render much faster. The caveat is that they all must have the same scale.

The rviz_imu_plugin package is used to display sensor_msgs/Imu messages in rviz. Once you download and compile the package, it should be visible as a plugin. It displays the orientation of the IMU using a box as well as and coordinate axes. The acceleration can be visualized using a vector. The package has been ticketed for inclusion in ROS.

Properties: Name: Description: Valid Values: Default: Visual Enabled: Enables drawing the visual representation of the robot: True, False: True: Collision Enabled ...

Tutorials showing how to call into rviz internals from python scripts. Maintainer status: maintained; Maintainer: William Woodall <william AT osrfoundation DOT org>

Interactive markers allow you to add a 3D user interface to your application, which can be accessed from tools like RViz. Author: David Gossow (C++), Michael Ferguson (Python) License: BSD