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Add .obj mesh support to mesh markers and robot descriptions

See original GitHub issue

Description

Connected to local ROS, the 3D marker topics and the URDF does not load.

Version: Foxglove v1.4.0 / v1.5.1 / v1.6.0 and ROS melodic / ROS noetic
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 / Ubuntu 20.04

Steps To Reproduce

3d topic:

cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/szenergy/rviz_markers
catkin build rviz_markers
source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash 
roscore
roslaunch rviz_markers demo1.launch

urdf:

cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/szenergy/nissan_leaf_ros
catkin build nissan_bringup
source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash 
roscore
roslaunch nissan_bringup 3d_nissan.launch 
roslaunch nissan_bringup tf_nissanleaf_statictf.launch
roslaunch nissan_bringup rviz00.launch

Expected Behavior

Display 3D data similar to RVIZ.

Actual Behavior

foxglove_01_a

foxglove_02

i also tried to /robot_description to package://nissan_bringup/param/nissan_leaf_robotdescription.ref.xml, it did not solve the issue.

foxglove_try_02_bb

Thank you!

Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Reactions:1
Comments:14 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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jhurlimancommented, Jul 14, 2022

The title of this ticket, “.obj mesh support”, is completed in the new 3D (Beta) panel. If there are additional rendering issues with the URDF support in the new 3d panel in 1.18 (due to release early next week) let’s open a new ticket to scope down the work and classify it as a bug report or feature request.

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defunctzombiecommented, Apr 16, 2022

@horverno Thanks for following up. I’ve looked into this and determined that the root cause is that we don’t yet support loading .obj meshes. We are actively working on many 3d panel enhancements that will allow us to better support meshes like .obj files.

I’m going to change this ticket from a bug to a feature and update the title to indicate that the 3d panel should support .obj meshes for URDF (robot descriptions) and mesh markers.

In the meantime, I’ve also made a ticket to improve the error feedback when we do encounter a mesh we don’t yet support. This should not fail silently but should let you know what happened.

https://github.com/foxglove/studio/issues/3198

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