Odometry arrows displayed in RViz are too small

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Sorry,in the odometry tree I can find only Color,Topic,Position Tolerance, Angle Tolerance and Keep properties. You see also: http://www.ros.org/wiki/rviz/DisplayTypes/Odometry. Where is the desidered property?

Which ROS distro do you use? electric/fuerte? Which version of RVIZ? I have RVIZ 1.8 on fuerte and there is LENGTH property in odometry tree.

I'm using rviz revision number 1.6.7 with ROS electric. I run "sudo apt-get install ros-electric-visualization", but I got "ros-electric-visualization is already the newest version". I could remove ros-electric-visualization and install latest rviz version from src, but it's a boring work, any idea?

You can hack the rviz code i.e.. rviz/src/rviz/default_plugin/odometry_display.cpp. You can iterate the arrows_ member and call setScale() for each arrow. But better approach is to install latest version of rviz from source as there are lots of other improvement as well.

Tahnk you Jakub!! I'm followed your suggestion. I modified odometry_display.cpp adding arrows_.setScale(10). But ho to compile it? I run: roscd rviz and rosmake , but recompilation doesn't process the modified file. Any suggestion?

It's not like that. arrows_ is a vector containing markers. You have to iterate through out it using iterator. Try to find a source code of new rviz and copy the OdometryDisplay::setLength function. For compilation you should make an overlay of rviz stack and compile it outside of /opt/ros directory

I've been already punished for suggesting compilation inside /opt/ros, so don't do this. ;) See: http://answers.ros.org/question/44257/install-a-patch Anyway the code of rviz you can find here: https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz/blob/master/src/rviz/default_plugin/odometry_display.cpp

@Jacub So... are u suggesting me to make a diff between your rviz linked source and my rviz source, create a patch, apply it and recompile? if not, what instead? Thank you again