• Window > Log Console

Lets you view and filter the messages the engine and editor have written to the log.

• indicates an error: a problem that prevented the engine or editor from doing something you asked.
• indicates a warning. Warnings indicate that there may be a problem with a resource or operation, but that the engine or editor was able to work around it.
• indicates an information message: feedback to let you know that something of interest occurred in the engine or the editor.

• To clear the log, click the icon.
• To show only messages that match a keyword or search phrase, enter some text (case insensitive) in the Search box.

You have two ways to filter messages by type:

• Use the blue icons to toggle which kinds of messages are shown in the console.
• Use the colored icons at the top right to "solo" a particular message type. While one of these icons is selected, only messages of that type are shown. Click the icon again to return to your regular filter setting.

Every time the Log Console receives a message from an instance of the engine, it records the name of the component or subsystem that sent that message. You can toggle the display of all log messages based on the subsystems that originated them. For example, you might want to hide all messages from a particular subsystem like the data compiler, or you might want to hide messages from other subsystems so that you can zero in on a particular subsystem.

• Click the Filter icon to see the list of all components that have sent messages to the log. Check or uncheck the box that corresponds to each component in order to show or hide all messages that originated from that component.

By default, the Log Console scrolls automatically so that the newest messages are always visible at the bottom of the panel.

• When the auto-scrolling mode is activated, the icon is highlighted.
• If you scroll the Log Console manually, the auto-scrolling mode is automatically disabled, and the icon loses its highlight.
• To resume auto-scrolling, click the icon or scroll manually all the way to the bottom.
• Auto-scrolling is automatically re-enabled after performing an action that triggers compilation.

The log messages you see in the Log Console are also written to files on disk within your Windows user directory. You can open the folder that contains these log files from the Log Console.

• Click the Options icon , and select Open Log Folder.