Hi all,
visualization_common 1.1.0 and visualization 1.1.0 have
been released. This is an **unstable** development release to try out
features considered for inclusion in their 1.2 versions. visualization 1.0 will work with visualization_common 1.1, but visualization 1.1 requires visualization_common 1.1. The largest changes in these releases involve additions to the visualization_msgs/Marker API, see below for details.
visualization_common 1.1 changelist:
Marker
Added support for meshes -- MESH_RESOURCE type and mesh_resource member. This allows you to specify a mesh resource by URI (e.g. package://pkg/file)
Added TEXT_VIEW_FACING type and text member
PointCloud: Added outlines on billboards and boxes
TF Display: added "Frame Timeout" option, which will fade out frames when we haven't received data about them in a certain amount of time. Defaults to 15 seconds. (#3825, r28455)
Ogre.log file is now suppressed by default, with a command line option (-l) to turn it on (r28432)
Fixed relative paths passed to -d command-line options (r28429)
New MESH_RESOURCE marker type that can load meshes from disk/web
New TEXT_VIEW_FACING marker type for displaying text
Support for per-point color for POINT, CUBE_LIST, LINE_LIST and LINE_STRIP markers. Does not yet support per-point alpha though the capability exists in the message.
POINT, CUBE_LIST, LINE_LIST and LINE_STRIP markers no longer throw away messages with empty points members (#3839, r28128)
Camera Display now uses image_transport, with a dropdown to choose from the available transport types. It does not yet have any way of knowing which transport plugins are loaded however (#3974)