visualization_msgs

This package provides messages for visualizing 3D information in ROS GUI programs, particularly RViz.

These messages were ported from ROS 1 and for now the visualization_msgs wiki is still a good place for information about these messages and how they are used.

For more information about ROS 2 interfaces, see docs.ros.org.

Messages (.msg)

• ImageMarker: A marker to overlay on displayed images.
• InteractiveMarker: A user interaction marker for manipulating objects in 3-dimensional space in GUI programs, like RViz.
• InteractiveMarkerControl: Represents a control that is to be displayed together with an interactive marker.
• InteractiveMarkerFeedback: Feedback message sent back from the GUI, e.g. when the status of an interactive marker was modified by the user.
• InteractiveMarkerInit: Used for sending initial interactive marker descriptions.
• InteractiveMarkerPose: The pose of the interactive marker.
• InteractiveMarkerUpdate: The top-level message for sending data from the interactive marker server to the client (i.e. rviz).
• Marker: A non-interactive marker for displaying annotations in 3-dimensional space.
• MarkerArray: An array of markers.
• MenuEntry: Used to describe the menu/submenu/subsubmenu/etc tree.

Services (.srv)

• GetInteractiveMarkers.srv: Get the currently available interactive markers.

Quality Declaration

This package claims to be in the Quality Level 2 category, see the Quality Declaration for more details.

Changelog for package visualization_msgs

5.3.6 (2025-03-20)

5.3.5 (2024-04-24)

• Remove references to index.ros.org. (#244)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

5.3.4 (2024-04-16)

5.3.3 (2024-04-10)

• Adds ARROW_STRIP to Marker.msg (#242)
• Contributors: Tom Noble

5.3.2 (2024-04-10)

• Clarify the license. (#241) In particular, every package in this repository is Apache 2.0 licensed except for sensor_msgs_py. So move the CONTRIBUTING.md and LICENSE files down into the individual packages, and make sure that sensor_msgs_py has the correct CONTRIBUTING.md file (it already had the correct LICENSE file).
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

5.3.1 (2024-03-28)

5.3.0 (2024-01-24)

5.2.2 (2023-12-26)

5.2.1 (2023-11-06)

5.2.0 (2023-06-07)

5.1.0 (2023-04-27)

5.0.0 (2023-04-11)

4.7.0 (2023-02-13)

• Update common_interfaces to C++17. (#215)
• [rolling] Update maintainers - 2022-11-07 (#210)
• Contributors: Audrow Nash, Chris Lalancette

4.6.1 (2022-11-02)

4.6.0 (2022-09-13)

4.5.0 (2022-05-19)

4.4.0 (2022-04-29)

4.3.0 (2022-04-29)

4.2.1 (2022-03-31)

4.2.0 (2022-03-30)

4.1.1 (2022-03-26)

4.1.0 (2022-03-01)

• Interface packages should fully <depend> on the interface packages that they depend on (#173)
• Contributors: Grey

4.0.0 (2021-12-14)

• Update maintainers to Geoffrey Biggs and Tully Foote (#163)
• Contributors: Audrow Nash

3.0.0 (2021-08-24)

• Marker Textures (#153)
• Contributors: Greg Balke

2.3.0 (2021-08-11)

• Document namespace scoped marker deletion. (#151)
• Contributors: Michel Hidalgo

2.2.3 (2021-04-27)

2.2.2 (2021-04-06)

• Change index.ros.org -> docs.ros.org. (#149)
• updating quality declaration links (re: ros2/docs.ros2.org#52)

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