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Hello!
I believe the focal point of a view in Rviz is the point the camera rotates around. How can I set the values for the focal point automatically? Say I have a node which is publishing the center of mass of a point cloud and I want my view in Rviz to rotate around that point - how can that be achieved?
Thanks! Jay
See if the rviz_animated_view_controller package offers what you need.
Edit:
Are there examples in C++?
No, there are not, afaik. But this is all really basic msg publication, so should be trivial to re-create in other languages.
Once I publish cameraPlacement messages - how can I tell Rviz to deal with them accordingly?
From the wik page on rviz_animated_view_controller:
This package provides an RViz view controller plugin [..]
This particular view controller shows up in the drop-down list in the Views Panel in RViz.
Edit 2: from the RViz User Guide I linked, it appears you might also be able to achieve what you want by publishing a TF frame at the location of the CoM and by selecting the Third Person Follower camera, but I can't find that anymore in recent RViz versions. I doubt it will also automatically rotate around the frame though.
Thanks! I have installed the package and had a look at the examples. I believe I could achieve what I am looking for by setting the focus point. 1. Are there examples in C++? 2. Once I publish cameraPlacement messages - how can I tell Rviz to deal with them accordingly?
Thanks! I have written a publisher, publishing on a topic with message type view_controller_msgs::CameraPlacement. But this topic does not show under the "Type" field in Rviz View Panel. If I start CameraTest from the examples, nothing happens as well. What am I missing?
Ah, restarting Rviz did the trick. Setting the focus point works, however, "eye" gets set all the time as well. This is counterintuitive unfortunately, because things like zooming by the user are senseless now :( How can I set eye to the value the user specified?
Asked: 2015-12-07 10:11:41 -0500
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Last updated: Dec 08 '15
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