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Visualizers and visualization status

Description: How to visualize the sensors topics, as well as hide robots or sensors.

Tutorial Level: BEGINNER

Next Tutorial: stdr_simulator/Tutorials/Robot creator

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Topic visualization
Visibility status

Topic visualization

You can see the sensor (and the robot) topic visualization by pressing the gray "eye" button in the information tree (right side of GUI).

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Visibility status

You can also change the visibility status of any sensor / robot by clicking the green colored "eye" button in the information tree (right side of GUI). There are three visibility choises :

Full visibility (Green button)
Transparent (Orange button)
Hidden (Red button)