I have a broadcast key for my local test server 127.0.0.1 which when I am using it on my laptop with no web connection results in a yellow viewpoint watermark appearing since the browser is unable to connect to viewpoint's server to check the installed player version.. anything I can do to stop this happening?

Yellow watermarks indicate a bad hash in the broadcast key. Have you attempted to edit the bkey at all? If so, the string in the broadcast key cannot be edited. It is associated with a certain url and changing that will result in the yellow watermark.

As a solution, when viewing content locally, you do not need a broadcast key. If you put all of your viewpoint scene files and all associated assets on your hard drive and run them from there, you do not need the key. Then, in the vmp constructor line in your html file, just leave the space blank between the quotes where the broadcast key is supposed to go. Once you do this, the watermark should go away.

Regards,
Viewpoint Support

no the broadcast key has not been edited and when I am using the 'offline' content and I have an internet connection everything is fine.

I've noticed that the browser has been trying to load a file from the viewpoint site i'll try to find out which