How to render an image onto the far plane of main camera?

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Hi all,
So, I’d like to render (and re-render later) a single jpeg image from a byte buffer onto the main camera, but I want the other components of the scene remain visible, the rendered jpeg needs to be kind of the background of the scene.

VideoPlayer object has a nice feature under “Render Mode” where we can select for it to render onto the far plane of a camera and the camera can be chosen as the main camera. And that would be superb, but only if VideoPlayer could load and display a single JPEG image. I haven’t seen this kind of capability in any other object yet. So if I could programmatically maybe assign a texture to the far plane of the main camera, that would be great- I could then render my jpeg on a new Texture2D and then assign that texture2D object as a texture of the main camera’s far plane, but I don’t know how. Alternatively if another component (similarly to VideoPlayer) could render directly to main camera’s far plane, then that would work too, but I don’t know such component.

Can anyone please give me some pointers?

Thanks

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What about making a canvas at your far plane/setting it at far plane through code and showing it on the canvas?

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Yes, that did it, thanks. Canvas is the component that has this ability along with videoplayer. Thanks.