From a55442c808051ee0e49711f548d972a988db67b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rose <david@ddrose.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:26:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] remove spurious warning

---
 panda/src/gobj/geom.cxx | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/panda/src/gobj/geom.cxx b/panda/src/gobj/geom.cxx
index 4064b5911b..f90aaa42e4 100644
--- a/panda/src/gobj/geom.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/gobj/geom.cxx
@@ -903,9 +903,16 @@ config() {
   if (_coords != (Vertexf*)0L && _bind[G_COORD] != G_OFF) {
     _get_vertex =
       (_vindex == (ushort*)0L) ? get_vertex_nonindexed : get_vertex_indexed;
+
   } else {
-    gobj_cat.error()
-      << "Geom::Config() - no vertex array!" << endl;
+    // It's not really an error not to have a vertex array; maybe
+    // there are no vertices in the Geom.  This happens sometimes with
+    // the particle system.  It's perfectly legal to have a Geom with
+    // no vertices--it just doesn't look like much.
+
+    //    gobj_cat.error()
+    //      << "Geom::Config() - no vertex array!" << endl;
+    _get_vertex = get_vertex_noop;
   }
 
   // Set up normal rendering configuration