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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Opensg-users mailing list Opensg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users