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http://answers.ros.org/question/218502/rviz-display-image-in-3d-scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

It looked like the point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

http://answers.ros.org/question/218502/rviz-display-image-in-3d-scene Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

It looked like the point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

It looked like the The point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

The point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

I haven't tried loading a textured mesh in the standard mesh resource rviz Marker, and updating it repeatedly from another node. I imagine performance is poor, but if your state doesn't change that quickly it maybe is sufficient.sufficient to load a textured mesh in a standard mesh resource rviz Marker, and updating it as needed from another node.

There is also marti_visualization_msgs/TexturedMarker which is in the apt-get repositories.

Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

The point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

The point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

The point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

I imagine performance is poor, but if your state doesn't change that quickly it maybe is sufficient to load a textured mesh in a standard mesh resource rviz Marker, and updating it the texture on disk and resending the Marker as needed from another node. The dae would have to be regenerated on disk ever update, since the texture isn't specified separately?

marti_visualization_msgs/TexturedMarker is only for mapviz, at first I thought there was an rviz plugin to show it.

Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

The point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

I imagine performance is poor, but if your state doesn't change that quickly it maybe is sufficient to load a textured mesh in a standard mesh resource rviz Marker, and updating the texture on disk and resending the Marker as needed from another node.

marti_visualization_msgs/TexturedMarker is only for mapviz, at first I thought there was an rviz plugin to show it.

Update

I have an rviz plugin that subscribes to an image topic and allows the user to specify the scale and the tf that the image ought to be aligned to: https://github.com/lucasw/rviz_textured_quads

Video example of a webcam on a quad inside rviz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzT0tkuJkwA

I've tested it in jade and kinetic.

It was forked from another project that adapted code and made a standalone version of the texture mesh code from vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins mentioned below. It uses a texture projection method rather than (the probably simpler) dynamic texturing above, but could be generalized to have non-rectangular shapes to project onto (like provide a mesh via a Marker or some other message).

There is a glitch every few seconds where the quad isn't drawn- I'd like to fix that.

Old answer

Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

The point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

I imagine performance is poor, but if your state doesn't change that quickly it maybe is sufficient to load a textured mesh in a standard mesh resource rviz Marker, and updating the texture on disk and resending the Marker as needed from another node.

marti_visualization_msgs/TexturedMarker is only for mapviz, at first I thought there was an rviz plugin to show it.

Update

I have an rviz plugin that subscribes to an image topic and allows the user to specify the scale and the tf that the image ought to be aligned to: https://github.com/lucasw/rviz_textured_quads

Video example of a webcam on a quad inside rviz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzT0tkuJkwA

I've tested it in jade and kinetic.

It was forked from another project that adapted code and made a standalone version of the texture mesh code from vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins mentioned below. It uses a texture projection method rather than (the probably simpler) dynamic texturing above, but could be generalized to have non-rectangular shapes to project onto (like provide a mesh via a Marker or some other message).

There is a glitch every few seconds where the quad isn't drawn- I'd like to fix that.

Old answer

Rviz: Display image in 3D scene had a suggestion to use a custom mesh display plugin developed for the DRC by the Vigir team.

I attempted just that https://github.com/lucasw/vigir_ocs_common/tree/master/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugins/vigir_ocs_rviz_plugin_mesh_display_custom but haven't gotten it working (but also haven't spent much time on it). They also had a forked rviz that some of the nodes in the original repo needed, hopefully not this one too.

The point of the plugin was to project a texture onto an arbitrary mesh, which is cool, but overkill for you and that other question- a custom plugin that just creates a textured quad at a rviz property defined tf and size and updates the texture via Image topic would be great.

Take a look at any rviz plugin and it is all raw Ogre inside them. The pitfalls are that code lives in a plugin environment, so rviz has control of global settings and making the main calls to Ogre which have to be respected, and it is possible to do screwy things within a plugin that mess up rendering in the entirety of rviz.

I imagine performance is poor, but if your state doesn't change that quickly it maybe is sufficient to load a textured mesh in a standard mesh resource rviz Marker, and updating the texture on disk and resending the Marker as needed from another node.

marti_visualization_msgs/TexturedMarker is only for mapviz, at first I thought there was an rviz plugin to show it.