Trouble visualizing PointCloud2 in Rviz

Hello, I publish a PointCloud2 message to a predefined topic that rviz's PointCloud display subscribes to (/output) successfully, but the pointcloud does not show up on the visualization. I know it publishes successfully because there is no error message in the rviz display window. In the launch file for my program, I launch the demo.launch for my tx90 robot that was created through the moveit_setup_assistant, which starts up rviz which visualizes my tx90 robot, but not the pointcloud2 message. i believe this may be a problem with TF, but i added a static_transform_publisher to my launch file as so: But this does not change anything except add the frame head to my transform tree (which I found through using tf view_frames), I am still not able to view the pointclouds in rviz. It says I do not have enough karma to post my frames.pdf file. My code for this portion is as follows: ros::Publisher pc_pub = n.advertise ("/output", 1); boost::filesystem::path pkgPath, imgPath; std::stringstream ss; pkgPath = ros::package::getPath("mover_node"); ss << pkgPath.c_str() << "/Wound_3d_mesh.pcd"; std::string fpath = ss.str(); sensor_msgs::PointCloud2 cloud_msg; pcl::PointCloud cloud; pcl::PCLPointCloud2 point_cloud2; pcl::io::loadPCDFile(fpath, cloud); //pcl::PointCloud::ConstPtr tmp_cloud = cloud; pcl::toPCLPointCloud2(cloud, point_cloud2); pcl_conversions::fromPCL(point_cloud2, cloud_msg); cloud_msg.header.frame_id = "head"; cloud_msg.header.stamp = ros::Time::now(); pc_pub.publish(cloud_msg);