print message for unknown args to make it clear that these are not recognized.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/creator/creator.c b/source/creator/creator.c
index e15950a665c..698646ce1b3 100644
--- a/source/creator/creator.c
+++ b/source/creator/creator.c
@@ -925,6 +925,12 @@ static int load_file(int UNUSED(argc), const char **argv, void *data)
 
 	/* Make the path absolute because its needed for relative linked blends to be found */
 	char filename[FILE_MAX];
+
+	/* note, we could skip these, but so far we always tried to load these files */
+	if (argv[0][0] == '-') {
+		fprintf(stderr, "unknown argument, loading as file: %s\n", argv[0]);
+	}
+
 	BLI_strncpy(filename, argv[0], sizeof(filename));
 	BLI_path_cwd(filename);