Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Cover Operation

You can only render so much in one day. After that, you start browsing the office LAN looking for movies saved on your co-workers' hard drives. But watching a movie presents some problems:
  1. Because of the row arrangement of desks in our office, its hard to quickly minimize the movie AND open something else to look like you're working (only hiding from my boss matters, I really don't care if anyone else notices; in fact, I secretly cherish the thought of presenting myself as something of a badass rebel to other minions)
  2. Since I was done with Revit for the day, I really couldn't use the "it's rendering in the background" excuse for watching a movie in the meantime, unless...
I used a tried and tested (at least personally) method - Print Screen your Revit window while it's rendering and set it as your wallpaper, then switch off desktop icons. It looks like a render is going on in the background, while you can watch the movie (I suggest not watching it fullscreen, so that people can see that you're rendering and really can't do anything else etc.)
Since no one around me knew Revit, I could get away with "it takes a lot of time on this damn slow PC" if they asked, but no one did even that. Here's the PrtScrn:
Use it yourself! All the kids are doing it!

I watched A Scanner Darkly until it was time to leave. I think my cover was better than Arctor's...

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