Error while loading 3D panel

[vivekrathi14]

I am using Ubuntu 18.04, ROS melodic in VM (Virtual Box). I am trying to use webviz for visualization of hector drone and turtlebot3. I am launching desired nodes and rviz on my local machine, followed by launching rosbrige_websocket and then opening https://webviz.io/app/ on my same local machine which has ROS nodes launched in it.

I tried with both hector drone and turtlebot3 but couldn't get 3D panel/view working. I get error for 3D panel. PFA snap of the error -

PFA snap of rosbridge_websocket -

1. Let me know if I am doing something wrong here.
2. It takes quite time for webviz to load. I would like to know why and if anyone faces the same issue.
3. I do know that we can't get our robot URDF visualization in webwiz. Can anyone confirm the same?
4. Also, one cannot get gazebo world visualization directly. Does worldview help? It seems one have to code in React for it and there isn't any rosbridge for implementation.

[vidaaudrey]

Hi @vivekrathi14, could you record a bag for us to debug the 3D panel rendering issue?

• RE it takes quite some time for webviz to load, do you mean running ros/ros bridge and building webviz all together? The Webviz build process should only take ~2 mins. Once you have webviz running in the browser, you could keep it on all the time.
• We currently don't support URDF model, but you could convert it to GLTF format (doc) or feel free to open a PR to add the support (reference).
• We don't support gazebo world visualization right now and only use Worldview for 3D rendering. And yes, you'd have to code in React to make it work. Also refer https://github.com/cruise-automation/webviz/issues/466 for more info.