corot/rviz_view_publisher

Rviz view publisher which publishes the current rviz view point(position) and orientation

rviz_view_publisher

This repo is a modification of the original rviz_animated_view_controller. It is modified to publish the current rviz view (position and orientation) as a pose stamped message in 10Hz (you can modify to your needs).

It is tested to build and run in Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS Kinetic.

Installing

clone and build:

cd <your_catkin_ws_dir>/src
git clone https://github.com/t141/rviz_view_publisher
git clone https://github.com/ros-visualization/view_controller_msgs
cd ..
catkin build
source devel/setup.bash

Launching

You may launch a pre-configured rviz view:

roslaunch rviz_view_publisher demo.launch

Or you can open a clean rviz and go to Panels->Views and select Animated(rviz_animated_view_controller) in the right-side panel. Then you will be able to see a topic called /rviz_view in your rostopic list.