Fix overly noisy surface deform warning message

An increased number of vertices is not a stopper for the surface
deform modifier anymore. It might still be useful to expose the
message in the UI, but printing error message to the console on
every modifier evaluation makes real errors to become almost
invisible.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15468

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_modifier.h b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_modifier.h
index 866b0353d07..46d609f9aa3 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_modifier.h
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_modifier.h
@@ -446,10 +446,22 @@ bool BKE_modifier_is_enabled(const struct Scene *scene,
  */
 bool BKE_modifier_is_nonlocal_in_liboverride(const struct Object *ob,
                                              const struct ModifierData *md);
+
+/* Set modifier execution error.
+ * The message will be shown in the interface and will be logged as an error to the console. */
 void BKE_modifier_set_error(const struct Object *ob,
                             struct ModifierData *md,
                             const char *format,
                             ...) ATTR_PRINTF_FORMAT(3, 4);
+
+/* Set modifier execution warning, which does not prevent the modifier from being applied but which
+ * might need an attention. The message will only be shown in the interface, but will not appear in
+ * the logs. */
+void BKE_modifier_set_warning(const struct Object *ob,
+                              struct ModifierData *md,
+                              const char *format,
+                              ...) ATTR_PRINTF_FORMAT(3, 4);
+
 bool BKE_modifier_is_preview(struct ModifierData *md);
 
 void BKE_modifiers_foreach_ID_link(struct Object *ob, IDWalkFunc walk, void *userData);