tutorial for RVIZ, Hydro, Sending Basic Shapes does not work

[kleucht]

I don't know if this is the proper place for reporting Tutorial issues. The ROS help world is very confusing to me.

I tried going through the RVIZ Sending Basic Shapes beginners tutorial and it failed. The publisher code built and ran, but the RVIZ instructions were for a different version of RVIZ. I was able to figure out how to add the Marker Display attached to the topic my code was publishing, but it gave me an error as you can see from the attached screen capture. It says Fixed Frame [map] does not exist.

There are apparently some steps missing from this tutorial. If this is a beginners tutorial then it should not leave out any steps. Don't assume the user of this tutorial has ever used RVIZ before, since it is the very first tutorial in the list of RVIZ tutorials.

Thanks,
Kurt (ROS newbie)

[dirk-thomas]

I added the current maintainers of the package: @hersh @wjwwood

Generally it makes more sense to fill the ticket in the repository of the specific package.

[wjwwood]

As a workaround for your specific problem, you must set the "Fixed Frame" to /my_frame at the top of the left hand side panel to get it to work. You can see this from the Global Status warning that "Fixed Frame [map] does not exist".

[wjwwood]

@kleucht I can't speak for @hersh, but I don't have the time to update these tutorials at the moment. I would gladly read over your changes if you wanted to contribute some updates to the tutorial.

[SupunPerera1994]

Please use this command
rosrun rviz rviz -f /my_frame
It will set the fixed frame to /my_frame upon launch.