Writing a converter from COLLADA to URDF would be a better idea. That way,
ROS tools other than rviz would be able to use the model.
That project isn't a short-term goal here, i.e. it won't be in C-turtle.
Contributions are more than welcome, though.
Tim
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Josh Faust <
jfaust@willowgarage.com>wrote:
> Thinking a bit further I'm guessing you want rviz to be able to read
> Collada instead of the urdf format, not just the mesh data? That's not
> covered by that ticket.
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Josh Faust <jfaust@willowgarage.com>wrote:
>
>> I have a ticket to support it, but it's unlikely to happen in time for
>> 1.2: https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/3930
>>
>> In the meantime I'd suggest converting the meshes into STL or Ogre .mesh
>> format.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Rosen Diankov <rosen.diankov@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> There are several requests to display openrave robots in rviz. Since
>>> openrave can export its robots to COLLADA, and recently robot_models
>>> has started exporting collada, do you think it is possible to add an
>>> import collada module to urdf? Another solution is to just get ogre to
>>> display collada files
>>> (http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Ogre_COLLADA_Plugin)
>>> please advise on what to do.
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>> rosen,
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