Hi all,<br><br>visualization_common <span>1.1</span>.<span>0 and visualization 1.1.0</span> 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.<br>

<br>visualization_common 1.1 changelist:<br><ul><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/visualization_msgs">visualization_msgs</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-5"></span></p><ul><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">Marker</tt> <span class="anchor" id="line-6"></span></p>

<ul><li><p class="line862">Added support for meshes -- <tt class="backtick">MESH_RESOURCE</tt> type and <tt class="backtick">mesh_resource</tt> member.  This allows you to specify a mesh resource by URI (e.g. <tt class="backtick">package://pkg/file</tt>) <span class="anchor" id="line-7"></span></p>

</li><li><p class="line862">Added <tt class="backtick">TEXT_VIEW_FACING</tt> type and <tt class="backtick">text</tt> member <span class="anchor" id="line-8"></span></p></li><li>Added frame_locked member that specifies the marker should be continually re-transformed into its frame <span class="anchor" id="line-9"></span></li>

<li>Added colors member for per-point/line color <span class="anchor" id="line-10"></span></li></ul></li></ul></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/ogre_tools">ogre_tools</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-11"></span></p>

<ul><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">PointCloud</tt>: Added outlines on billboards and boxes </p></li></ul></li></ul><br>visualization 1.1 changelist:<br>
<span class="anchor" id="line-4"></span><br>
<span class="anchor" id="line-4"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/rviz">rviz</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-5"></span></p><ul><li>Added
dialog which is shown when it cannot contact the master. No longer
fully initializes and then closes immediately (r28449) <span class="anchor" id="line-6"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">TF Display</tt>:
added &quot;Frame Timeout&quot; option, which will fade out frames when we
haven&#39;t received data about them in a certain amount of time. Defaults
to 15 seconds. (#3825, r28455) <span class="anchor" id="line-7"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">Ogre.log</tt> file is now suppressed by default, with a command line option (<tt class="backtick">-l</tt>) to turn it on (r28432) <span class="anchor" id="line-8"></span></p>

</li><li><p class="line862">Fixed relative paths passed to <tt class="backtick">-d</tt> command-line options (r28429) <span class="anchor" id="line-9"></span></p></li><li>Marker Display <span class="anchor" id="line-10"></span><ul>

<li><p class="line862">New <tt class="backtick">MESH_RESOURCE</tt> marker type that can load meshes from disk/web <span class="anchor" id="line-11"></span></p></li><li><p class="line862">New <tt class="backtick">TEXT_VIEW_FACING</tt> marker type for displaying text <span class="anchor" id="line-12"></span></p>

</li><li>New frame locked option for markers, which automatically retransforms them into a frame every update cycle <span class="anchor" id="line-13"></span></li><li><p class="line862">Support for per-point color for <tt class="backtick">POINT</tt>, <tt class="backtick">CUBE_LIST</tt>, <tt class="backtick">LINE_LIST</tt> and <tt class="backtick">LINE_STRIP</tt> markers.  Does not yet support per-point alpha though the capability exists in the message. <span class="anchor" id="line-14"></span></p>

</li><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">POINT</tt>, <tt class="backtick">CUBE_LIST</tt>, <tt class="backtick">LINE_LIST</tt> and <tt class="backtick">LINE_STRIP</tt> markers no longer throw away messages with empty points members (#3839, r28128) <span class="anchor" id="line-15"></span></p>

</li></ul></li><li><p class="line862">Camera Display now uses <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/image_transport">image_transport</a>,
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 (<a href="https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/3974">#3974</a>) <span class="anchor" id="line-16"></span></p></li><li>Moved rendering into an idle callback, which should be a better way of keeping the UI responsive </li>

</ul></li></ul>Josh<br>