JP Posma

I'd recommend getting RViz to work first and to use their guides. Once you have RViz markers working within RViz, you can click in the top left button of a...

Yeah I'd recommend trying to get it to work with RViz first. Webviz' 3d panel is supposed to be compatible with RViz, so if it works in RViz, then it...

Yeah, you'd have to publish an [RViz marker](http://wiki.ros.org/rviz/DisplayTypes/Marker) to represent the turtlebot. We also support `geometry_msgs/Pose`. Here's a current list of the message types that we support in the 3d...

It would be helpful if you could create a simple webpage that demonstrates the issue; would that be possible?

Ah very interesting. We don't use latched topics as such, but we do have similar issues with our own bags. I'm currently actually working on something that should enable (2),...

@cjds @bigredfrog update: still working on this, and @jasonimercer also mentioned this to me, so there's definitely a lot of interest. I had to pause working on it for a...

Not yet! But this work is slated really soon.

Not yet. 😞 cc @MatthewSteel we should think about this as we're doing the preloading work.

A workaround for you could be to republish the latched topics at a regular interval. Not a great solution but maybe that can help for now?

Yeah exactly. It's a bit hacky but it could help you until we build this feature properly.