A quick shoutout to the foxglove team

[Alan Timm]

https://foxglove.dev/homepage

imho foxglove is the way to go for ros2 robot visualization.  

A few weeks ago I was porting my virtual robot model back to urdf and noticed that the robot was showing up in foxglove in white instead of the defined colors.

I doublechecked the tutorial and confirmed that I was doing it correctly

https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Tutorials/Intermediate/URDF/Building-a-Visual-Robot-Model-with-URDF-from-Scratch.html#material-girl

(And I remembered something similar happening years ago in rviz with multiple geometry items in a single link.  The tldr; was that if you had more than one geometry item in a link the material/color information was ignored.  seems that rviz2 and foxglove behaved the same way.  weird.)

So I started a topic on their discord and was amazed that within the next few weeks they pushed a codefix to their web app and their apps.  

So...  If you're visualizing a robot in with multiple geometry features per link you'll get a better result in foxglove than rviz2 now.  :-)

[Thomas Messerschmidt]

I have used rviz before, but never foxglove. I will try it on your recommendation. Thanks.

Thomas Messerschmidt

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On Jan 18, 2026, at 11:42 AM, Alan Timm <gest...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://foxglove.dev/homepage

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