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Tools and Messages for Annotated 3D Triangle Meshes in ROS
https://wiki.ros.org/mesh_tools
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Ros2 and Rviz2 port? #7

Closed mikebentley15 closed 3 years ago

mikebentley15 commented 4 years ago

It seems weird that it is not easy to display a mesh in RViz without an external plugin or hacking a URDF file to do it for you.

Then I found this project that looks like everything I need and more. Great work here. Is there any effort in place to get it working in Ros2 with Rviz2? As I understand, RViz has not changed much in porting to Ros2.

mikebentley15 commented 4 years ago

https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Contributing/Migration-Guide/

spuetz commented 3 years ago

Feel free to propose a pull request. Maybe the port to RViz2 will be done in 2021, but maybe the software will be ported not before 2022.

mikebentley15 commented 3 years ago

For now, I've moved to using the MESH_RESOURCE marker type in RViz. It's good enough for my use case.

I had tried to migrate this code myself, but I don't know enough about ROS1, ROS2, or this code base to do it in a reasonable amount of time.