visualization: marker_shmup | rviz | rxbag_plugins | wxpropgrid

Package Summary

A 3d visualization environment for robots using ROS.

Usage

Command Line Options

-h, --help

  • Print a help message describing the command line options.

-d, --display-config <arg>

  • Load configuration file <arg> at startup.

-t, --target-frame <arg>

  • Set the target frame to <arg>. Overrides the target frame specified in the config loaded (whether through -d or the auto-saved one).

-f, --fixed-frame <arg>

  • Set the fixed frame to <arg>. Overrides the target frame specified in the config loaded (whether through -d or the auto-saved one).

User Documentation

  1. User's Guide

  2. Troubleshooting

  3. Built-in Display Types

Tutorials

  1. Markers: Sending Basic Shapes (C++)

    Shows how to use visualization_msgs/Marker messages to send basic shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder, arrow) to rviz.

Recording Movies

rviz does not have a builtin capability to record movies. You can, however, use an application like GLC to do so. The RecordingOpenGLAppsWithGLC page has more information on recording and encoding.

Wiki: rviz (last edited 2010-02-05 19:11:45 by JoshFaust)