Hello Dirk,

On 09/20/2010 12:16 PM, Dirk Reiners wrote:
> On 09/20/2010 10:04 AM, Carsten Neumann wrote:
>> I'm turning the warnings into FATAL messages, because a missing camera,
>> background or root node will prevent rendering the viewport.
>
> Please don't. FATAL is reserved for serious system errors, not user mistakes.
> here's my internal description for the different message levels:
>
> FATAL: Something very serious went wrong. The system will probably crash
> horribly in the next few seconds.
> WARNING: Something serious went wrong. Don't be surprised to see black screens
> or lots of random triangles.
> NOTICE: Something is not quite right. You should be able to get a sensible
> image, but there might be little problems.
> INFO: Just in case you wanted to know.
> DEBUG: For internal debugging.
>
> It's not totally consistent throughout the codebase, but overall it's pretty
> much like this, and I would like to keep it this way.

ok, I'll keep it a warning, but change the message to this:

  "Viewport::render: no Background, can not render!"

to make it clear that nothing will be drawn (instead of not getting any 
background color, for example).

        Cheers,
                Carsten

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