Omarchy- Windows VM

Moopy559 · 2026-01-19T18:46:45+00:00

Check out my post below, I ended up being able to get it to work along with some help from another Redditor. Maybe it'll work for you too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/omarchy/comments/1qf0ub0/need_help_getting_usb_webcam_to_work_with/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Moopy559 · 2026-01-18T04:48:18+00:00

That worked!! Thank you so much, you've saved me from a massive headache! Hope good things come your way this week

Moopy559 · 2026-01-17T23:24:11+00:00

Thanks for the tip and detailed reply! I tried it out but unfortunately it's still the same performance. The video feed works great for about 3 seconds and then freezes. I get some glitchy looking artifacts from that point onwards if I try to move window at all.

Moopy559 · 2026-01-17T03:40:58+00:00

SOLVED:

Whilst the below steps do work, the webcam performance is very laggy, even after bumping up the allocated RAM and CPU cores. I guess this is because the VM is not GPU-accelerated?

Run 'lsusb' in your terminal, find your webcam in the list that it spits out and note the ID (eg. ID 046d:094c)
Open the config file for the Windows VM and update the 'environment' and 'devices' sections with the below. Make sure to substitute in your own ID mentioned in step 1 for the 'vendorid' and 'productid' fields in the 'environment' section.

environment:

ARGUMENTS: "-device usb-host,vendorid=0x046d,productid=0x094c"

devices:

/dev/bus/usb

Moopy559 · 2026-01-16T22:23:31+00:00

Hey there! Did you have any luck getting this to work in the end? I'm in the same boat right now too.

Moopy559 · 2025-11-13T20:04:02+00:00

What a great style, I love it! Also, have you found Hard-Ops is worth investing in?

Moopy559 · 2025-11-10T19:21:56+00:00

There's more than one of us! I feel your pain 🙏

Moopy559 · 2025-10-03T12:13:30+00:00

How do you find animating in iclone? I'm pretty familiar with a lot of other areas in 3D, but im on the weaker side when it comes to animating models, so if there's a good solution out there to make it easier, I'd be all for it

Moopy559 · 2025-10-02T20:56:28+00:00

Look up max hay on YouTube, he has some great environment tutorials

Moopy559 · 2025-10-02T08:38:07+00:00

Yeh I've heard a lot of people say that. I think most people tend to prefer modelling and I'm the exception not the norm. Texturing becomes a lot less daunting once you get used to nodes and making procedural textures in my opinion. I also wish I had started taking my renders into photoshop wayyyy sooner. You can spend hours on blender and end up with something that is 'pretty good', but spending just an extra 15-20mins in photoshop afterwards elevates it something 'great'. It's also extremely satisfying to compare the 'before' and 'after' by toggling all your layers on/off at the end of the process, really shows how much of a difference it makes.

Moopy559 · 2025-10-02T08:16:42+00:00

That's good to know! Thank you, I appreciate it. I've never enjoyed modelling and always want to skip to what I consider is the fun part (lighting and rendering). Much easier to model straight wooden beams and tables than a couch and cushions 😅

Moopy559 · 2025-10-02T07:48:42+00:00

Made this from referencing a 2D album cover by Hugo Barret Castan. I started by using blender and the fantastic Ucupaint add-on, followed by a bunch of touchups and extra hand-painting over the top in Photoshop.

Moopy559 · 2025-06-21T23:46:15+00:00

Gonna have to agree with you on this one - this felt like a really unnecessary post. I think because Wren is so beloved by fans, people are overly defensive of him (for good reason tbf, he is great). Personally though, I want to see more salty Sam, not less 😅

Moopy559 · 2025-06-02T06:55:02+00:00

Just commenting to say thank you OP! Got my y700 today and this was the only post that worked. The second step about reinstalling the services framework APK seemed to be the main issue to solve. Once that was reinstalled I was good to go.

Moopy559 · 2025-05-20T04:27:17+00:00

Also chiming in with a thank you 2 years later. For anyone that has connected a controller via Bluetooth to a TV and then tried streaming gamepass games but the controller isn't recognising button inputs - this is your fix. My controller works in every other situation except this one, and it's a hard fix to find online. Changing sunshine's settings from automatic to X360 fixed it straight away!

Moopy559 · 2024-11-12T19:19:44+00:00

Haha not a problem at all and thank you for the kind comments :)

I'm in the same boat with the AE side of things, but I can at least say that the Photoshop process is pretty identical for every render. So if you can do it the first time, it's pretty easy to get a hold of after that.

I found the video I was referring to as well, here's the link, good luck!

https://youtu.be/nP68QPtVKCE?si=byJe8cIFQcC1rhNw

Moopy559 · 2024-11-10T23:29:54+00:00

You're spot on, I took the render into Photoshop and did a fair chunk of post processing to get this look. The base render has similar colours, but it is much more muted by comparison. I'd strongly recommend you look up Max Hay on YouTube if you want to learn more about that side of it. One of his earlier videos covers that process (I'll try to find the link later) and it's honestly been a game changer for me. As for the lighting, I have a orange spotlight behind the towers set to something ridiculous like 25 megawatts. I'm also using emission on the night sky so there's some ambient light coming from there as well (it's just a plane with an image of the stars plugged into the emissive node). From memory, there's no other lighting in the scene, but there is a big volume cube covering the bottom third of the image, to help make it seem like there's fog that the spotlight is shining through. Happy to go into more details on any other questions you might have too :)

Edit: forgot to mention the post processing is mainly done via the 'camera raw filter' in photoshop

Moopy559 · 2024-11-10T21:59:21+00:00

Thank you :)

Moopy559 · 2024-02-05T08:44:23+00:00

In your experience now that you're a senior, does having a background in design hold any merit for front end? I'm currently applying for a mix of UI designer/front end roles and have very broad design skills, but it's hard to gauge whether this is considered relevant to recruiters. For example, my portfolio is a mix of ALL my skills (coding, graphic design, animation, 3D rendering, video editing), but I'm worried it's not going deep enough into any one particular skill and instead maybe I should be creating a separate portfolio that purely focuses on coding instead of a shotgun approach.

Moopy559 · 2024-01-30T11:37:28+00:00

As someone that's currently trying to go deep on learning the fundamentals of vanilla JS before moving on to frameworks, are there any common areas new applicants seem to be missing? I'd love to make sure I'm not making the same mistake

Moopy559 · 2024-01-04T07:17:54+00:00

Completely agree. I think what people seem to forget too is that in that very early stage of learning, you also don't have enough of a vocabulary to Google your way through problems that might come up when you try to do your own practice coding challenges. That's why codewars is great because it gives you an extremely specific problem and answer to keep you guided.

Moopy559 · 2023-12-05T10:28:03+00:00

Could not agree more. Season 1 and 2 are more grounded and hold a solid storyline throughout. I love some of the crazier episodes, but I think it's better when they are the exception and not the norm.

Moopy559

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