how to display a mesh with texture in RViz?

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Based on the visualization_msgs markers of RViz I wrote a small package that makes it easy to load meshes into RViz as textured objects.

It simply loads all files which were put inside its meshes folder and publishes them to the visualization_marker topic. And even dynamically! When a new object is added to the folder, it appears (or is published) in RViz. If an object is deleted, it also disappears from the published models.

It also contains a launch file which just takes everything which is inside the meshes folder, opens up RViz with a suitable perspektive and visualizes the 3D files.

Just check it out here: https://github.com/vonunwerth/RVizMes...

You can display OBJ meshes now with the mesh resource on Marker messages. Here are the important bits

from visualization_msgs.msg import Marker

msg = Marker()
msg.mesh_resource = "package://my_package/path/to/my/mesh.obj"
msg.mesh_use_embedded_materials = True   # Need this to use textures for mesh

And then note you can still color the textured mesh by setting msg.color but you can set the RGBA values all to zero if you just want to display the texture. It works, but I find the lighting options unsatisfying:

I have the same problem, I am using markers to display a mesh that comes form a .3ds file. The mesh is shown correctly, but without texture.

If I don't set the colors, it appears in black, if I set colors it appear the entire mesh in that color.

I know that the .3ds file carries the color information, is there anyway to show it properly in Rviz?

Regards.