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rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version humble
Last Updated 2025-06-06
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 11.2.17
rviz_assimp_vendor 11.2.17
rviz_common 11.2.17
rviz_default_plugins 11.2.17
rviz_ogre_vendor 11.2.17
rviz_rendering 11.2.17
rviz_rendering_tests 11.2.17
rviz_visual_testing_framework 11.2.17

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Axes Move Camera Orbit Displays
Camera Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
DepthCloud Measure First Person Selections
Effort Select Frame Aligned Time
Fluid 2D Nav Goal Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Grid Publish Point Top Down Orthographic Views
Grid Cells Initial Pose    
Illuminance Interact    
Image      
Interactive Marker      
Laser Scan      
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Pose With Covariance      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      
Wrench      

Not yet ported

Other features:

  • Stereo

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation.html

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

Clone these repositories into the source folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

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rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version jazzy
Last Updated 2025-06-06
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 14.1.11
rviz_assimp_vendor 14.1.11
rviz_common 14.1.11
rviz_default_plugins 14.1.11
rviz_ogre_vendor 14.1.11
rviz_rendering 14.1.11
rviz_rendering_tests 14.1.11
rviz_visual_testing_framework 14.1.11

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Axes Move Camera Orbit Displays
Camera Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
DepthCloud Measure First Person Selections
Effort Select Frame Aligned Time
Fluid 2D Nav Goal Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Grid Publish Point Top Down Orthographic Views
Grid Cells Initial Pose    
Illuminance Interact    
Image      
Interactive Marker      
Laser Scan      
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Pose With Covariance      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      
Wrench      

Not yet ported

Other features:

  • Stereo

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation.html

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

Clone these repositories into the source folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

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rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_resource_interfaces rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version kilted
Last Updated 2025-06-06
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 15.0.2
rviz_assimp_vendor 15.0.2
rviz_common 15.0.2
rviz_default_plugins 15.0.2
rviz_ogre_vendor 15.0.2
rviz_rendering 15.0.2
rviz_rendering_tests 15.0.2
rviz_resource_interfaces 15.0.2
rviz_visual_testing_framework 15.0.2

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Axes Move Camera Orbit Displays
Camera Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
DepthCloud Measure First Person Selections
Effort Select Frame Aligned Time
Fluid 2D Nav Goal Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Grid Publish Point Top Down Orthographic Views
Grid Cells Initial Pose    
Illuminance Interact    
Image      
Interactive Marker      
Laser Scan      
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Pose With Covariance      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      
Wrench      

Not yet ported

Other features:

  • Stereo

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation.html

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

Clone these repositories into the source folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

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rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_resource_interfaces rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version rolling
Last Updated 2025-06-16
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 15.1.3
rviz_assimp_vendor 15.1.3
rviz_common 15.1.3
rviz_default_plugins 15.1.3
rviz_ogre_vendor 15.1.3
rviz_rendering 15.1.3
rviz_rendering_tests 15.1.3
rviz_resource_interfaces 15.1.3
rviz_visual_testing_framework 15.1.3

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Axes Move Camera Orbit Displays
Camera Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
DepthCloud Measure First Person Selections
Effort Select Frame Aligned Time
Fluid 2D Nav Goal Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Grid Publish Point Top Down Orthographic Views
Grid Cells Initial Pose    
Illuminance Interact    
Image      
Interactive Marker      
Laser Scan      
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Pose With Covariance      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      
Wrench      

Not yet ported

Other features:

  • Stereo

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation.html

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

Clone these repositories into the source folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

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rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_yaml_cpp_vendor

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version ardent
Last Updated 2018-02-08
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 3.0.0
rviz_assimp_vendor 3.0.0
rviz_common 3.0.0
rviz_default_plugins 3.0.0
rviz_ogre_vendor 3.0.0
rviz_rendering 3.0.0
rviz_rendering_tests 3.0.0
rviz_yaml_cpp_vendor 3.0.0

README

rviz

This branch is still under construction and is targeted for ROS 2 and/or ROS 1 M-Turtle.

Setup

Install ros2 (needed for ament at least and ros2’s C++ api for the version of rviz in ros 2):

https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Installation

Currently the latest release (beta3) is not sufficient to build rviz so you need to build the ros2 master from source.

Prerequisites

Ubuntu

There will be a setup.bash file from your ros2 build you can source. The current state of this branch requires a from-source build though.

Install the following Ubuntu packages:

apt install libxaw7-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev qt5-default libyaml-cpp-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Source the setup file before continuing:

$ source path/to/ros2/install/setup.bash

Windows

Note Make sure to install all dependencies in either 32 bit or 64 bit version and do not mix.

This setup was tested for Windows 10 x64.

Build CURL 7.56.0

  • Download CURL sources from GitHub
  • Extract to local folder (e.g. to C:\ros2\curl-7.56.0)
  • Create and change to build folder (e.g. C:\ros2\curl-7.56.0\build)
    • Configure CMake: cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ../
    • Build the project: cmake --build . --config Debug
    • Install to C:\Program Files: cmake --build . --config Debug --target Install

Get Boost (No build required)

  • Download Boost sources from https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.65.1/source/
  • Extract to local folder (e.g. to C:\ros2\boost_1_65_1)

Build yaml-cpp

  • Download yaml-cpp sources from GitHub
  • Extract to local folder (e.g. to C:\ros2\yaml-cpp-release-0.5.3)
  • Create and change to build folder (e.g. C:\ros2\yaml-cpp-release-0.5.3\build)
    • Configure CMake: cmake -G "cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ../ -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\ros2\boost_1_65_1
    • Build the project: cmake --build . --config Debug
    • Install to C:\Program Files: cmake --build . --config Debug --target Install

Setup environment

  • add Qt binary files to PATH (e.g. C:\Qt\5.9.1\msvc2017_64\bin)
  • set QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable (e.g. C:\Qt\5.9.1\msvc2017_64\plugins\platforms)
  • Add Curl and yaml-cppto the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable
    • Example: C:\Program Files\CURL;C:\Program Files\YAML_CPP
  • Add Curl binary to PATH (e.g. C:\Program Files\CURL\bin)
  • Set BOOST_INCLUDEDIR environment variable to Boost include directory (e.g. C:\ros2\boost_1_65_1)
  • Add patch.exe to PATH (e.g. from Git Bash, C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin)
  • (For Testing) Add Cppcheck binary to PATH (e.g. C:\Program Files\Cppcheck)

Source the setup file before continuing:

$ call path/to/ros2/install/setup.bat

Building RViz

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

Clone these repositories into the source folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
$ git clone https://github.com/ros/pluginlib.git -b ros2
$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/tinyxml2_vendor.git

Then build all the packages with this command:

$ ament build

Or specific packages with command, for example just rviz_ogre_vendor and then rviz_rendering:

``` $ ament build –only rviz_ogre_vendor

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CONTRIBUTING

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rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework rviz_yaml_cpp_vendor

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version bouncy
Last Updated 2018-08-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 4.0.2
rviz_assimp_vendor 4.0.2
rviz_common 4.0.2
rviz_default_plugins 4.0.2
rviz_ogre_vendor 4.0.2
rviz_rendering 4.0.2
rviz_rendering_tests 4.0.2
rviz_visual_testing_framework 4.0.2
rviz_yaml_cpp_vendor 4.0.2

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Camera Move Camera Orbit Displays
Grid Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
Grid Cells Measure First Person Selections
Image Select Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Laser Scan 2D Nav Goal Top Down Orthographic Views
Map Publish Point    
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Robot Model      
TF      

Not yet ported

These features have not been ported to ros2/rviz yet.

Displays Tools Panels
Axes Initial Pose Time
DepthCloud Interact  
Effort    
Fluid Pressure    
Illuminance    
Interactive Marker    
Oculus    
Pose With Covariance    
Range    
Relative Humidity    
Temperature    
Wrench    

Other features:

  • Filtering of Topic lists by topic type
  • Message filters
  • Image transport features

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

None, yet.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Installation

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

Clone these repositories into the source folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git

Then build all the packages with this command:

$ colcon build --merge-install

The --merge-install flag is optional but ensures a cleaner environment which is helpful for development.

More instructions and examples to come.

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CONTRIBUTING

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rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version crystal
Last Updated 2019-12-06
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 5.1.1
rviz_assimp_vendor 5.1.1
rviz_common 5.1.1
rviz_default_plugins 5.1.1
rviz_ogre_vendor 5.1.1
rviz_rendering 5.1.1
rviz_rendering_tests 5.1.1
rviz_visual_testing_framework 5.1.1

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Camera Move Camera Orbit Displays
Fluid Pressure Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
Grid Measure First Person Selections
Grid Cells Select Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Illuminance 2D Nav Goal Top Down Orthographic Views
Image Publish Point    
Laser Scan Initial Pose    
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      

Not yet ported

These features have not been ported to ros2/rviz yet.

Displays Tools Panels
Axes Interact Time
DepthCloud    
Effort    
Interactive Marker    
Oculus    
Pose With Covariance    
Wrench    

Other features:

  • Filtering of Topic lists by topic type
  • Message filters
  • Image transport features

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Installation

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

``` $ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

Repo symbol

rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version eloquent
Last Updated 2020-12-02
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 7.0.7
rviz_assimp_vendor 7.0.7
rviz_common 7.0.7
rviz_default_plugins 7.0.7
rviz_ogre_vendor 7.0.7
rviz_rendering 7.0.7
rviz_rendering_tests 7.0.7
rviz_visual_testing_framework 7.0.7

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Axes Move Camera Orbit Displays
Camera Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
Fluid Pressure Measure First Person Selections
Grid Select Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Grid Cells 2D Nav Goal Top Down Orthographic Views
Illuminance Publish Point    
Image Initial Pose    
Interactive Marker Interact    
Laser Scan      
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      
Wrench      

Not yet ported

These features have not been ported to ros2/rviz yet.

Displays Panels
DepthCloud Time
Effort  
Pose With Covariance  

Other features:

  • Filtering of Topic lists by topic type
  • Image transport features
  • Stereo

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Installation

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

``` $ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src $ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

Repo symbol

rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version dashing
Last Updated 2021-05-21
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 6.1.8
rviz_assimp_vendor 6.1.8
rviz_common 6.1.8
rviz_default_plugins 6.1.8
rviz_ogre_vendor 6.1.8
rviz_rendering 6.1.8
rviz_rendering_tests 6.1.8
rviz_visual_testing_framework 6.1.8

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Camera Move Camera Orbit Displays
Fluid Pressure Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
Grid Measure First Person Selections
Grid Cells Select Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Illuminance 2D Nav Goal Top Down Orthographic Views
Image Publish Point    
Laser Scan Initial Pose    
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      

Not yet ported

These features have not been ported to ros2/rviz yet.

Displays Tools Panels
Axes Interact Time
DepthCloud    
Effort    
Interactive Marker    
Oculus    
Pose With Covariance    
Wrench    

Other features:

  • Filtering of Topic lists by topic type
  • Message filters
  • Image transport features

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Installation

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

``` $ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

Repo symbol

rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version galactic
Last Updated 2022-12-05
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 8.5.2
rviz_assimp_vendor 8.5.2
rviz_common 8.5.2
rviz_default_plugins 8.5.2
rviz_ogre_vendor 8.5.2
rviz_rendering 8.5.2
rviz_rendering_tests 8.5.2
rviz_visual_testing_framework 8.5.2

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Axes Move Camera Orbit Displays
Camera Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
Fluid Pressure Measure First Person Selections
Grid Select Third Person Follower Time
Grid Cells 2D Nav Goal Top Down Orthographic Tool Properties
Illuminance Publish Point   Views
Image Initial Pose    
Interactive Marker Interact    
Laser Scan      
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Pose With Covariance      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      
Wrench      

Not yet ported

These features have not been ported to ros2/rviz yet.

Displays
DepthCloud
Effort

Other features:

  • Image transport features
  • Stereo

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation.html

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

Repo symbol

rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version foxy
Last Updated 2023-03-16
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 8.2.8
rviz_assimp_vendor 8.2.8
rviz_common 8.2.8
rviz_default_plugins 8.2.8
rviz_ogre_vendor 8.2.8
rviz_rendering 8.2.8
rviz_rendering_tests 8.2.8
rviz_visual_testing_framework 8.2.8

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Axes Move Camera Orbit Displays
Camera Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
Fluid Pressure Measure First Person Selections
Grid Select Third Person Follower Tool Properties
Grid Cells 2D Nav Goal Top Down Orthographic Views
Illuminance Publish Point    
Image Initial Pose    
Interactive Marker Interact    
Laser Scan      
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Pose With Covariance      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      
Wrench      

Not yet ported

These features have not been ported to ros2/rviz yet.

Displays Panels
DepthCloud Time
Effort  

Other features:

  • Filtering of Topic lists by topic type
  • Image transport features
  • Stereo

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Installation

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

``` $ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src $ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

Repo symbol

rviz repository

rviz2 rviz_assimp_vendor rviz_common rviz_default_plugins rviz_ogre_vendor rviz_rendering rviz_rendering_tests rviz_visual_testing_framework

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version iron
Last Updated 2024-11-26
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
rviz2 12.4.10
rviz_assimp_vendor 12.4.10
rviz_common 12.4.10
rviz_default_plugins 12.4.10
rviz_ogre_vendor 12.4.10
rviz_rendering 12.4.10
rviz_rendering_tests 12.4.10
rviz_visual_testing_framework 12.4.10

README

RViz

This branch is currently contained in the main ros2.repos file of ROS 2 and can be used for ROS 2. The latest release will be available with your ROS 2 download.

ROS 2 does not have a wiki yet. To learn about RViz and its functionality, please refer to the ROS RViz wiki page.

Features

Already ported

These features have already been ported from ros-visualization/rviz to ros2/rviz. The basic documentation can still be found on the RViz wiki page. For some displays, the documentation is updated.

Displays Tools View Controller Panels
Axes Move Camera Orbit Displays
Camera Focus Camera XY Orbit Help
DepthCloud Measure First Person Selections
Effort Select Third Person Follower Time
Fluid 2D Nav Goal Top Down Orthographic Tool Properties
Grid Publish Point   Views
Grid Cells Initial Pose    
Illuminance Interact    
Image      
Interactive Marker      
Laser Scan      
Map      
Marker      
Marker Array      
Odometry      
Point Cloud (1 and 2)      
Point      
Polygon      
Pose      
Pose Array      
Pose With Covariance      
Range      
Relative Humidity      
Robot Model      
Temperature      
TF      
Wrench      

Not yet ported

Other features:

  • Stereo

In case you wished to see those features in RViz for ROS 2, feel free to add a pull request. Make sure to read the developer guide below and the migration guide.

New features

Pluggable transformation library

In RViz for ROS 1 the frames transformation library used is tf2 (detailed information about it can be found here). In RViz for ROS 2 the frames transformation library is now pluggable, meaning that different transformation library plugins can be loaded and changed dynamically in the gui. Developers can create and use their own plugins to provide custom transformation behavior.

Two plugins are bundled with RViz:

  • a plugin for tf2 (TFFrameTransformer, in rviz_default_plugins), which provides the standard tf2 functionality and which is used as a default
  • a trivial plugin (IdentityFrameTransformer, in rviz_common), which always performs identity transforms. This plugin is used by default if the tf2 plugin is not available and no other valid plugin is specified.

As anticipated, in order for the user to choose the plugin to use, RViz provides a dedicated panel: the Transformation panel.

Note: Not all transformation plugins are necessarily compatible with all RViz displays (e.g. some of the default displays, like the TF display, can only work with tf2). In order to take this possibility into account, the TransformerGuard class is provided. Adding it to a display ensures that the display will be disabled and won’t function in case the wrong transformer is used.

More detailed information on how to write a transformation plugin and on how to handle transformation specific displays can be found in the plugin development guide.

Developer Guide

Build

Building RViz together with ROS 2

The simplest way to build from source is to use the official installation guide, since RViz is part of the official ROS 2 repos file.

https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation.html

Building RViz in a separate workspace

When developing for RViz, it can be beneficial to build it in a separate workspace.

Note: When building the current ros2 branch from source, the latest ROS 2 release for all dependencies might not be sufficient: it could be necessary to build the ROS 2 master branch. Make sure to have a source build of ROS 2 available (see installation procedure above).

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

Clone these repositories into the source folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CONTRIBUTING

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