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@drwr

render2dp was created to solve a problem similar to such as you describe. (Actually, it was the opposite problem: someone wanted a second 2-d display to appear on top of the original 2-d display. But it amounts to the same thing.) It’s not used by Panda itself, so you’re free to take it and use it for whatever purpose you like.

Right, for the 3-D solution you would parent a card to the camera, and position it at the appropriate distance to fill the screen (where that distance depends on your camera’s field of view). Panda provides some methods to change the render order, in particular card.setBin(‘background’, 0) to render it the first thing in the frame–see How to Control Render Order for more. You’d probably also want to turn off the depth write with card.setDepthWrite(False).

David

The above is very helpful… Can anyone supply an example code snippet that implements it? (to give noobs a leg up)

Thanks,
Lars