how do you apply a render texture to an object?

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i would like to have the name of the object/character above the object/character always facing the camera using render textures.
how is this done?

2

you shouldn’t be using render texture for that… Try using GUI text or 3d text mesh. but you hve to control the font size according to distance from camera…

the reason is render texture is costly in terms of performance and i dont think there is any easy way to use font in render texture!..