Margus Ramst wrote:

> "Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>Going to the trouble of shooting 480800 rays and outputing a black 800x600
>>image when it already knows this is not a scene.
>>
> 
> Well - it is your own mistake, after all. Personally, I like it when the
> program doesn't try to second-guess me too much. There are cases where you
> might want to render a scene without objects; why should POV prevent you
> from doing this?
> 


This is why my original message asked "is it a new behaviour or a bug?"

I was kind of clued in to the fact that it was intentional by the change 
from "Error" to "Warning", but didn't want to rule out the possibility 
that the person who made that change to the source code was asleep.

-- 
/*Francois Labreque*/#local a=x+y;#local b=x+a;#local c=a+b;#macro P(F//
/*    flabreque    */L)polygon{5,F,F+z,L+z,L,F pigment{rgb 9}}#end union
/*        @        */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
/*   videotron.ca  */}camera{location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a orthographic}

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